Freedom Remembered

Born: September 28, 1980 – Iowa
Died: February 5, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq

Army Spc. Joshua L. Knowles of Sheffield, Iowa played football and track in high school, and also liked golfing, smowboarding, and playing paintball. As a civilian, Josh was studying criminal justice at a community college and working as a woodworker in Mason City before he was called up. He was killed at age 23 when he was hit by a mortar round at a Baghdad International Airport checkpoint. He was in a military cargo truck when the convoy came under mortar attack at a military checkpoint outside the Baghdad International Airport – his vehicle sustained a direct hit by a mortar round. He was posthumously awarded the the Bronze Star, for heroic achievement during war, and the Purple Heart, given to those wounded in war.
Army
National Guard
1133rd Transportation Company
Mason City, Iowa

Burial is at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery in North Rockwell, Iowa

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