Carolyn's Daily Posts: 2011

May 7, 2011

Farewell, Army Reserve Capt. Joshua McClimans

CAROLYN’S DAILY POSTS: 2011

FAREWELL, ARMY RESERVE CAPT. JOSHUA McCLIMANS

     The mayor of a small western Pennsylvania town (Jamestown,  population 626**)  says her grandson, an Army nurse, has been killed by a sniper in Afghanistan. .

     Jamestown mayor Esther McClimans tells The Herald newspaper of Sharon that Army reserve Capt. Joshua McClimans was killed Friday (April 22, 2011***)near Kabul.

     The mayor says Army officials came to the town about 75 miles northwest of Pittsburgh to notify Michael McClimans, the soldier’s father.

     McClimans graduated in 1998 from Jamestown High School…He was a standout wrestler at the school.* In recent months he lived near Akron where he has a 6-year-old son and had planned to continue schooling to become an anesthetic nurse.*

     McClimans, 30, was killed by (more…)