Lance Corporal Joshua David Isaac USMC, age 23, of Peachtree City passed away on July 7, 2007 from injuries received June 30, 2003 during a water training accident with the United States Marine Corps.
Josh was born June 11, 1984 in Kansas City, MO. He was a 2003 graduate of McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, GA and had been accepted at the University of South Carolina where he planned to major in Criminal Justice.
Josh was an Eagle Scout and a volunteer firefighter with the Peachtree City Fire Department. Josh was the 2001 Georgia state representative to the FBI National Academy Youth Leadership Program in Quantico, VA and the Vice-President of Finance for the FBINAA Youth Leadership Alumni Association. After his accident, Josh was made an honorary member of the Georgia chapter of the FBINAA.
Josh is survived by his mother, Malia Brooks Isaac; and his sister, Jillian Brooke Isaac of Peachtree City; his father and step-mother, Keith and Jennifer Maichel Isaac of Moreland, GA; paternal grandparents, Sam and Flo Isaac of Moreland, GA. Josh's maternal grandparents were the late G.T. and Justine (Dukes) Brooks of Morganfield, KY; and he was the great grandson of the late Rebie and Ruth Dukes of White Plains, KY.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday July 11 at 2 PM in the chapel of Carl J. Mowell & Son with the Peachtree City Fire Department providing full honors. Dr. Jimmy Ellison, Rev. Warren Huddleston and Pastor John Weber will officiate. Interment, with full military honors, will be Saturday July 14 at 2 PM at Oddfellows Cemetery in Madisonville, KY. The family will receive friends between the hours of 6 and 8 PM Tuesday at the funeral home. Those who desire, in lieu of flowers, may make contributions to the Coma Stimulation Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, 1687 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or the Peachtree City Volunteer Firefighters Association, 105 Peachtree Parkway North, Peachtree City, GA 30269. Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home, Peachtree City.
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Marine recruit dies after four years in coma
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/08/07
Josh Isaac was a fighter. The Peachtree City native nearly drowned at Marine Corps boot camp four years ago — in a case that drew criticism about how the U.S. Department of Defense trains service members.
In the years that followed the accident, Josh, in a coma like state, had countless brushes with death as he lay in a south Fulton County nursing home, unable to speak or eat on his own.
But, in the end, it was too much to bear, if not for him, for his family.
Josh died Saturday at 4:31 a.m., his mother, Malia Isaac, said. It was a week after doctors removed his feeding tube.
His mother, father Keith Isaac and sister Jill, 19, a student at Mercer University, were with him when he died.
"I've been watching the life drain out of him for the past four years, but nothing prepares you for the end," Josh's mother said.
Josh decided to join the military after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, setting his sites on the U. S. Marine Corps. Two days after graduating from Fayette County's McIntosh High School in 2003, Josh headed to Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C.
Josh quickly acclimated to camp and grew close to the other men of Platoon 2064.
But tragedy struck on June 30, 2003. That morning Josh's platoon took part in routine combat survival class at a Parris Island pool.
Moments after jumping off a 10-foot-tall platform, Josh fell limp in the water and stopped breathing, according to Marine Corps investigators. He was rushed to a nearby naval hospital and then to the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston.
Malia Isaac rushed to Charleston, but by then it was clear: There was little doctors could do. Josh would spend the next four years with minimal brain function. He was treated in Charleston for eight weeks, then at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
For the past three years, he has been in room 112 of Dogwood Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fairburn, an 82-bed facility that houses mostly elderly patients. The federal government paid Josh's monthly $4,500 bill.
In an inch-thick report, the Marine Corps determined Josh likely suffered from hypoxia — prolonged oxygen deprivation — because his breathing muscles were temporarily paralyzed. Josh went without air to his brain for at least eight to 10 minutes, which could result in irreversible damage, according to the report.
Isaac's mother and sister both wept when his breathing tubes were removed at 8:16 a.m., June 30. It was four years to the minute after his accident.
"He smiled all week (since the tube was removed). It was the first time. He seemed so happy, not in pain," his mother said. "I'm going to wonder for the rest of my life if I did the right thing. But I believe I did. He didn't have much of a life anymore. It was time to let go."
The Peachtree City Fire Department, where Josh Isaac volunteered in high school, will hold a reception following Wednesday's funeral.
Funeral: Wednesday, 2 p.m., at Mowell Funeral Home, 200 Robinson Road in Peachtree City.
Visitation: Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., at the funeral home.
Here is Joshua's cemetery
(This is the national vet burial database and he is listed on it)
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
1. ISAAC, JOSHUA DAVID
LCPL US MARINE CORPS
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/11/1984
DATE OF DEATH: 07/07/2007
BURIED AT:
ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
2285 N MAIN ST MADISONVILLE, KY 42431
Josh was born June 11, 1984 in Kansas City, MO. He was a 2003 graduate of McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, GA and had been accepted at the University of South Carolina where he planned to major in Criminal Justice.
Josh was an Eagle Scout and a volunteer firefighter with the Peachtree City Fire Department. Josh was the 2001 Georgia state representative to the FBI National Academy Youth Leadership Program in Quantico, VA and the Vice-President of Finance for the FBINAA Youth Leadership Alumni Association. After his accident, Josh was made an honorary member of the Georgia chapter of the FBINAA.
Josh is survived by his mother, Malia Brooks Isaac; and his sister, Jillian Brooke Isaac of Peachtree City; his father and step-mother, Keith and Jennifer Maichel Isaac of Moreland, GA; paternal grandparents, Sam and Flo Isaac of Moreland, GA. Josh's maternal grandparents were the late G.T. and Justine (Dukes) Brooks of Morganfield, KY; and he was the great grandson of the late Rebie and Ruth Dukes of White Plains, KY.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday July 11 at 2 PM in the chapel of Carl J. Mowell & Son with the Peachtree City Fire Department providing full honors. Dr. Jimmy Ellison, Rev. Warren Huddleston and Pastor John Weber will officiate. Interment, with full military honors, will be Saturday July 14 at 2 PM at Oddfellows Cemetery in Madisonville, KY. The family will receive friends between the hours of 6 and 8 PM Tuesday at the funeral home. Those who desire, in lieu of flowers, may make contributions to the Coma Stimulation Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, 1687 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or the Peachtree City Volunteer Firefighters Association, 105 Peachtree Parkway North, Peachtree City, GA 30269. Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home, Peachtree City.
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Marine recruit dies after four years in coma
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/08/07
Josh Isaac was a fighter. The Peachtree City native nearly drowned at Marine Corps boot camp four years ago — in a case that drew criticism about how the U.S. Department of Defense trains service members.
In the years that followed the accident, Josh, in a coma like state, had countless brushes with death as he lay in a south Fulton County nursing home, unable to speak or eat on his own.
But, in the end, it was too much to bear, if not for him, for his family.
Josh died Saturday at 4:31 a.m., his mother, Malia Isaac, said. It was a week after doctors removed his feeding tube.
His mother, father Keith Isaac and sister Jill, 19, a student at Mercer University, were with him when he died.
"I've been watching the life drain out of him for the past four years, but nothing prepares you for the end," Josh's mother said.
Josh decided to join the military after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, setting his sites on the U. S. Marine Corps. Two days after graduating from Fayette County's McIntosh High School in 2003, Josh headed to Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C.
Josh quickly acclimated to camp and grew close to the other men of Platoon 2064.
But tragedy struck on June 30, 2003. That morning Josh's platoon took part in routine combat survival class at a Parris Island pool.
Moments after jumping off a 10-foot-tall platform, Josh fell limp in the water and stopped breathing, according to Marine Corps investigators. He was rushed to a nearby naval hospital and then to the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston.
Malia Isaac rushed to Charleston, but by then it was clear: There was little doctors could do. Josh would spend the next four years with minimal brain function. He was treated in Charleston for eight weeks, then at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
For the past three years, he has been in room 112 of Dogwood Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fairburn, an 82-bed facility that houses mostly elderly patients. The federal government paid Josh's monthly $4,500 bill.
In an inch-thick report, the Marine Corps determined Josh likely suffered from hypoxia — prolonged oxygen deprivation — because his breathing muscles were temporarily paralyzed. Josh went without air to his brain for at least eight to 10 minutes, which could result in irreversible damage, according to the report.
Isaac's mother and sister both wept when his breathing tubes were removed at 8:16 a.m., June 30. It was four years to the minute after his accident.
"He smiled all week (since the tube was removed). It was the first time. He seemed so happy, not in pain," his mother said. "I'm going to wonder for the rest of my life if I did the right thing. But I believe I did. He didn't have much of a life anymore. It was time to let go."
The Peachtree City Fire Department, where Josh Isaac volunteered in high school, will hold a reception following Wednesday's funeral.
Funeral: Wednesday, 2 p.m., at Mowell Funeral Home, 200 Robinson Road in Peachtree City.
Visitation: Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., at the funeral home.
Here is Joshua's cemetery
(This is the national vet burial database and he is listed on it)
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
1. ISAAC, JOSHUA DAVID
LCPL US MARINE CORPS
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/11/1984
DATE OF DEATH: 07/07/2007
BURIED AT:
ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
2285 N MAIN ST MADISONVILLE, KY 42431
Lance Corporal Joshua David Isaac USMC, age 23, of Peachtree City passed away on July 7, 2007 from injuries received June 30, 2003 during a water training accident with the United States Marine Corps.
Josh was born June 11, 1984 in Kansas City, MO. He was a 2003 graduate of McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, GA and had been accepted at the University of South Carolina where he planned to major in Criminal Justice.
Josh was an Eagle Scout and a volunteer firefighter with the Peachtree City Fire Department. Josh was the 2001 Georgia state representative to the FBI National Academy Youth Leadership Program in Quantico, VA and the Vice-President of Finance for the FBINAA Youth Leadership Alumni Association. After his accident, Josh was made an honorary member of the Georgia chapter of the FBINAA.
Josh is survived by his mother, Malia Brooks Isaac; and his sister, Jillian Brooke Isaac of Peachtree City; his father and step-mother, Keith and Jennifer Maichel Isaac of Moreland, GA; paternal grandparents, Sam and Flo Isaac of Moreland, GA. Josh's maternal grandparents were the late G.T. and Justine (Dukes) Brooks of Morganfield, KY; and he was the great grandson of the late Rebie and Ruth Dukes of White Plains, KY.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday July 11 at 2 PM in the chapel of Carl J. Mowell & Son with the Peachtree City Fire Department providing full honors. Dr. Jimmy Ellison, Rev. Warren Huddleston and Pastor John Weber will officiate. Interment, with full military honors, will be Saturday July 14 at 2 PM at Oddfellows Cemetery in Madisonville, KY. The family will receive friends between the hours of 6 and 8 PM Tuesday at the funeral home. Those who desire, in lieu of flowers, may make contributions to the Coma Stimulation Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, 1687 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or the Peachtree City Volunteer Firefighters Association, 105 Peachtree Parkway North, Peachtree City, GA 30269. Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home, Peachtree City.
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Marine recruit dies after four years in coma
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/08/07
Josh Isaac was a fighter. The Peachtree City native nearly drowned at Marine Corps boot camp four years ago — in a case that drew criticism about how the U.S. Department of Defense trains service members.
In the years that followed the accident, Josh, in a coma like state, had countless brushes with death as he lay in a south Fulton County nursing home, unable to speak or eat on his own.
But, in the end, it was too much to bear, if not for him, for his family.
Josh died Saturday at 4:31 a.m., his mother, Malia Isaac, said. It was a week after doctors removed his feeding tube.
His mother, father Keith Isaac and sister Jill, 19, a student at Mercer University, were with him when he died.
"I've been watching the life drain out of him for the past four years, but nothing prepares you for the end," Josh's mother said.
Josh decided to join the military after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, setting his sites on the U. S. Marine Corps. Two days after graduating from Fayette County's McIntosh High School in 2003, Josh headed to Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C.
Josh quickly acclimated to camp and grew close to the other men of Platoon 2064.
But tragedy struck on June 30, 2003. That morning Josh's platoon took part in routine combat survival class at a Parris Island pool.
Moments after jumping off a 10-foot-tall platform, Josh fell limp in the water and stopped breathing, according to Marine Corps investigators. He was rushed to a nearby naval hospital and then to the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston.
Malia Isaac rushed to Charleston, but by then it was clear: There was little doctors could do. Josh would spend the next four years with minimal brain function. He was treated in Charleston for eight weeks, then at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
For the past three years, he has been in room 112 of Dogwood Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fairburn, an 82-bed facility that houses mostly elderly patients. The federal government paid Josh's monthly $4,500 bill.
In an inch-thick report, the Marine Corps determined Josh likely suffered from hypoxia — prolonged oxygen deprivation — because his breathing muscles were temporarily paralyzed. Josh went without air to his brain for at least eight to 10 minutes, which could result in irreversible damage, according to the report.
Isaac's mother and sister both wept when his breathing tubes were removed at 8:16 a.m., June 30. It was four years to the minute after his accident.
"He smiled all week (since the tube was removed). It was the first time. He seemed so happy, not in pain," his mother said. "I'm going to wonder for the rest of my life if I did the right thing. But I believe I did. He didn't have much of a life anymore. It was time to let go."
The Peachtree City Fire Department, where Josh Isaac volunteered in high school, will hold a reception following Wednesday's funeral.
Funeral: Wednesday, 2 p.m., at Mowell Funeral Home, 200 Robinson Road in Peachtree City.
Visitation: Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., at the funeral home.
Here is Joshua's cemetery
(This is the national vet burial database and he is listed on it)
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
1. ISAAC, JOSHUA DAVID
LCPL US MARINE CORPS
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/11/1984
DATE OF DEATH: 07/07/2007
BURIED AT:
ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
2285 N MAIN ST MADISONVILLE, KY 42431
Josh was born June 11, 1984 in Kansas City, MO. He was a 2003 graduate of McIntosh High School in Peachtree City, GA and had been accepted at the University of South Carolina where he planned to major in Criminal Justice.
Josh was an Eagle Scout and a volunteer firefighter with the Peachtree City Fire Department. Josh was the 2001 Georgia state representative to the FBI National Academy Youth Leadership Program in Quantico, VA and the Vice-President of Finance for the FBINAA Youth Leadership Alumni Association. After his accident, Josh was made an honorary member of the Georgia chapter of the FBINAA.
Josh is survived by his mother, Malia Brooks Isaac; and his sister, Jillian Brooke Isaac of Peachtree City; his father and step-mother, Keith and Jennifer Maichel Isaac of Moreland, GA; paternal grandparents, Sam and Flo Isaac of Moreland, GA. Josh's maternal grandparents were the late G.T. and Justine (Dukes) Brooks of Morganfield, KY; and he was the great grandson of the late Rebie and Ruth Dukes of White Plains, KY.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday July 11 at 2 PM in the chapel of Carl J. Mowell & Son with the Peachtree City Fire Department providing full honors. Dr. Jimmy Ellison, Rev. Warren Huddleston and Pastor John Weber will officiate. Interment, with full military honors, will be Saturday July 14 at 2 PM at Oddfellows Cemetery in Madisonville, KY. The family will receive friends between the hours of 6 and 8 PM Tuesday at the funeral home. Those who desire, in lieu of flowers, may make contributions to the Coma Stimulation Program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, 1687 Tullie Circle NE, Atlanta, GA 30329, or the Peachtree City Volunteer Firefighters Association, 105 Peachtree Parkway North, Peachtree City, GA 30269. Carl J. Mowell & Son Funeral Home, Peachtree City.
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Marine recruit dies after four years in coma
By CHANDLER BROWN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 07/08/07
Josh Isaac was a fighter. The Peachtree City native nearly drowned at Marine Corps boot camp four years ago — in a case that drew criticism about how the U.S. Department of Defense trains service members.
In the years that followed the accident, Josh, in a coma like state, had countless brushes with death as he lay in a south Fulton County nursing home, unable to speak or eat on his own.
But, in the end, it was too much to bear, if not for him, for his family.
Josh died Saturday at 4:31 a.m., his mother, Malia Isaac, said. It was a week after doctors removed his feeding tube.
His mother, father Keith Isaac and sister Jill, 19, a student at Mercer University, were with him when he died.
"I've been watching the life drain out of him for the past four years, but nothing prepares you for the end," Josh's mother said.
Josh decided to join the military after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, setting his sites on the U. S. Marine Corps. Two days after graduating from Fayette County's McIntosh High School in 2003, Josh headed to Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C.
Josh quickly acclimated to camp and grew close to the other men of Platoon 2064.
But tragedy struck on June 30, 2003. That morning Josh's platoon took part in routine combat survival class at a Parris Island pool.
Moments after jumping off a 10-foot-tall platform, Josh fell limp in the water and stopped breathing, according to Marine Corps investigators. He was rushed to a nearby naval hospital and then to the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in Charleston.
Malia Isaac rushed to Charleston, but by then it was clear: There was little doctors could do. Josh would spend the next four years with minimal brain function. He was treated in Charleston for eight weeks, then at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
For the past three years, he has been in room 112 of Dogwood Health and Rehabilitation Center in Fairburn, an 82-bed facility that houses mostly elderly patients. The federal government paid Josh's monthly $4,500 bill.
In an inch-thick report, the Marine Corps determined Josh likely suffered from hypoxia — prolonged oxygen deprivation — because his breathing muscles were temporarily paralyzed. Josh went without air to his brain for at least eight to 10 minutes, which could result in irreversible damage, according to the report.
Isaac's mother and sister both wept when his breathing tubes were removed at 8:16 a.m., June 30. It was four years to the minute after his accident.
"He smiled all week (since the tube was removed). It was the first time. He seemed so happy, not in pain," his mother said. "I'm going to wonder for the rest of my life if I did the right thing. But I believe I did. He didn't have much of a life anymore. It was time to let go."
The Peachtree City Fire Department, where Josh Isaac volunteered in high school, will hold a reception following Wednesday's funeral.
Funeral: Wednesday, 2 p.m., at Mowell Funeral Home, 200 Robinson Road in Peachtree City.
Visitation: Tuesday, 6-8 p.m., at the funeral home.
Here is Joshua's cemetery
(This is the national vet burial database and he is listed on it)
http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1
1. ISAAC, JOSHUA DAVID
LCPL US MARINE CORPS
DATE OF BIRTH: 06/11/1984
DATE OF DEATH: 07/07/2007
BURIED AT:
ODD FELLOWS CEMETERY
2285 N MAIN ST MADISONVILLE, KY 42431
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