Joshua Barrett Madden, known as Josh Madden (May 24, 1985 - December 6, 2006), was a United States Army sergeant killed in the Iraq War whose parents, Jerry Wayne and Cindy Lou Richardson Madden of Minden, Louisiana, launched a campaign to bring hometown recognition to their son and others killed in the conflict. At twenty-one, Madden was among eleven soldiers killed in Iraq, when he and four other young men in their Humvee encountered a 1,500-pound roadside bomb while they were conducting operations near the northern town of Kirkuk. Young Madden had planned to leave the Army in June 2007.