Catoosa soldier killed in Iraq
Joshua Scott, a 24-year-old Marine who lived in the Keith community in Catoosa County, was killed Sunday in Iraq when the driver of a Humvee he was riding in lost control and the vehicle overturned.
01/24/06
Kevin Cummings
Joshua Scott
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His wife, Mendy, said Marines knocked on her door Monday morning to deliver the terrible news.
“It’s hard. It doesn’t seem real yet,” she said Tuesday. “I didn’t think anything would happen to him. You never think it’s going to happen to you.”
Joshua and Mendy had been married for about 18 months and had a 7-month-old daughter together.
“He was a wonderful husband and a great dad,” she said through her tears. “He loved his kid more than anything.”
Scott was a 2001 graduate of Ringgold High School and a member of the Ringgold wrestling team.
He was a lance corporal in the Anti-Terror Battalion Catt 3 and stationed at Camp Fallujah.
Mendy said one other soldier also lost his life in the wreck and three were seriously injured.
She said her husband’s body will be returned to the family in 7-10 days, but services had not been set as of Tuesday. Scott will be buried at the Keith Baptist Church cemetery.