James D. Carroll
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Age: 23
From: McKenzie, Tenn.
Assigned to the 230th Engineer Battalion, Tennessee Army National Guard, McKenzie, Tenn.
Incident: Army Spc. James D. Carroll was killed July 31 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee outside Baghdad.
Died: July 31, 2005
Town mourns second soldier killed in Iraq
Associated Press
MCKENZIE, Tenn. — This town of 5,300 is mourning the loss of its second serviceman killed in Iraq.
Flags are at half-staff for Spc. James Dustin “Dusty” Carroll, 23, who died Sunday about 20 miles south of Baghdad when the vehicle he was in was hit by shrapnel from a roadside bomb. Three other soldiers, two of them from McKenzie, were injured.
Carroll was a member of McKenzie’s Company A, 230th Engineer Battalion. His father, Sgt. James P. (Pat) Carroll, is also serving with the unit that his son joined four days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Friends and loved ones described him Monday as a jokester who kept everyone laughing.
“Look at his picture. Isn’t he beautiful?” Deborah Carroll told The Jackson Sun as she took hold of a photo of her son in uniform.
Carroll is the eighth Tennessee Guardsman to die since the war began in...