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I was Josh’s pastor in Colorado Springs. He was one of America’s finest sons. He is still missed.
Mike Harris
May 25, 2025 | Hagerstown, MD | Friend
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Capt. Joshua T. Byers
Sparks, Nevada
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Send FlowersCapt. Josh Byers, an Army Ranger and paratrooper, was a company commander in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment and was deployed to Iraq in April. Byers, 29, was killed July 23 when the convoy he was riding in hit an explosive device near the town of Ramadi, about 60 miles from Baghdad. A native of Anderson, S.C., Byers moved with his family to Sparks, Nev., in 1989, in time to start the second semester of his freshman year at Reed High School. Byers'' father, a minister, started a church in Sparks. The family moved back to South Carolina in 1995, when Josh Byers was at West Point. The death of the U.S. Military Academy graduate came on his mother''s birthday. When Josh Byers left for Iraq, he told his mother, Mary Byers, not to worry. "He kept saying, ''Mom, the worst will be over when I get there,''" she said. But she said she knew from his subsequent letters that her son was in danger. "He''d done a lot of night missions," she said. "Him being a Ranger, he got used to doing a lot of things." Mary and her husband, Lloyd Byers, are church missionaries in Guam. Reed counselor Bob White said that as a senior, Josh Byers was accepted at all three major military academies _ Army, Navy and Air Force. White said he chose West Point because he thought its rules of conduct were the strictest. "He said, ''Even though I want to go into the Navy, I''m going into the Army. Their honor code is better,''" White said. "He was the nicest, politest kid you''d ever want to meet."
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To the Byers, not a Memorial day goes by that I do not remember and pray for you all. Thank you for raising one of the finest men I had ever met. Pastor Mark Morton Granite Hills Baptist Church Reno Nv. Retired Reno Police Department.
Mark Morton
June 01, 2021 | RENO, NV
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joshua,
I remember this day with profound sorrow. Where you should be celebrating yet another birthday, your legacy as a Soldier, an American patriot, a brother and a son lives on even in your absence from our world.
I reminded by granddaughter, who shares the same birthday as you, of the sacrifice you, others before you and those yet unknown made and will make in defense of our beloved nation.
BG Zachary Doser
U.S. Army
Nevada National Guard
July 23, 2020
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Joshua,
Today, like every memorial day past and future, the collective nation mourns your death and the deaths of others in the service to America. You epitomize all that is good about America and being an American Soldier.
May 27, 2019
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Josh, thinking about you today. Deep Blue Something came on the radio, and I thought of you and and you singing along to it in the car. Kids asked why I turned up the oldies song in the car - I told them it reminded me of a friend. Love to you and miss you. Though I be the lone survivor...,
Jon Redmond
April 29, 2019 | Wayzata, MN | Friend
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Joshua,
On this Memorial Day I'll think of you and the other brave souls who perished on distant battlefields defending all that is precious to America and those who call America home.
You're a wonderful young man, who even today, has a positive impact on those who served, currently serve or who will ultimately serve in the greatest Army of the greatest Nation on earth.
Bless you and your family on this solemn day of remembrance.
V/R
Zachary...
May 29, 2018
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Memorial Day 2018,
Dear family, I just wanted you to know that I was thinking of Captain Byers today. May God continue to comfort you with the knowledge that Captain Byers is alive and well, in His Heavenly Home.
May 28, 2018
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Joshua,
As is the case each Memorial Day, I think of you. So young and full of promise. How the world would be a better place if you were still with us, we'll never know. We do know it would be. Those of who knew you, or in my case knew of you are better for it.
May God be with you and your family.
Brigadier General Zachary Doser
zachary doser
May 29, 2017 | Reno, NV
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Byers Family,
As 23 July approaches I'm reminded of two significant, life changing events occurring; the death of your son and the birth of my first grandchild. As a Nevada citizen his loss touches me. I've made numerous posts to this site and will continue to do so as long as God allows me the ability.
The tragedy of war can be summed up in the below quote from the ancient philosopher Sophocles:
"War loves to seek its victims in the young."
You son is missed by...
Zachary Doser
July 06, 2016 | Reno, NV
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