Forest J Jostes
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Age: 22
From: Albion, Ill.
Assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas
Incident: Army Cpl. Forest J. Jostes was killed April 4 when his unit was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire in Baghdad.
Died: April 04, 2004
When he was 7, Forest Jostes wrote in his school journal that he was going to be in the Army when he grew up. On his 17th birthday, as a high school senior in Albion, Ill., Jostes enlisted in the Army National Guard. And two months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Jostes joined the Army full-time. Cpl. Jostes, 21, who was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, had been in Iraq for only a week when he was killed April 4 in an attack on his unit by rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire in Baghdad.
Seven other soldiers also died. He had volunteered for a rapid response team the day he died, said his parents, Von and Diane Ibbotson. "The young man has been trying to find a niche in life and found it in the military. He believed in what he was doing," Von...