The 125th Infantry was moving through Salman Pak, Iraq, when, all of a sudden, its soldiers noticed two Iraqi police vehicles they were traveling with had disappeared.

Immediately, mortars started raining from the sky and Army Staff Sergeant Jack Vliet and others went into nearby vehi...

Lance Corporal Jeramy Alan Ailes died going house to house searching for dangerous insurgents from around the Arab country in Fallujah, Iraq, on November 15, 2004. Jeramy wanted to be the first one in the houses they searched to help protect the ones under him. Jeramy entered the United States Ma...

Even though I never had the honor of meeting, you will always be my hero! Love, your granddaughter

SSG Alex was one of my Troopers in Iraq. I define him as a resilient and determined Soldier who even in the face of a significant amount of adversity always kept moving forward never resigning himself to any level of self-pity. SSG Alex was recovering from the effects of an IED explosion and as a...

Tom was a wonderful nephew. I am so proud of who he was and what he did for his country. I miss him. My "summer" son! :)

April 3rd 2011 - I posted on your wall: Tim and I officially decided it's we miss Joe day today. Little did we know that April 15th 2011 this would become our new reality.

Joe -
As I write this message - it makes me cry. I cry because you're not here. I cry because a...

I never got to know you. As a child, I would wish that you would come home, say you had been somewhere for a long time with amnesia. Wishful thinking on the part of a child! You truly gave it all, for the rest of us.

Having known Lt. McClean step brother and sister I am not surprise of his bravery fearless selfishness to put his life before others. I wish I had known him. From this day forward, I will keep his memory a live by letting people know he is my hero. Live my life a way man of his stature would...

Holly loved the children in Iraq. She asked me to send candy all of the time so that she could give it to the children.

Reconstructed USAAF history display

Justin Dean Norton grew up in Rainier, Washington and graduated with honors from Rainier High School in 2003. Justin joined the military in April 2003 as a 19D, Cavalry Scout. He attended Basic and Advanced Training at Ft Knox, Kentucky. He was then assigned to the Alpha Troop “Apaches”, 1-10 Cav...

I would like to thank T. Sgt. Louis John Clever for his service to his country during the Vietnam War. I just found out that he is my cousin thru ancestry.com. I am the 1st family member to say thank you for a job well done! RIP cuz

George H. Gannon

October 1944, the Phillipines, along way from the small farm in NW Ohio.

Your passing came long before your nieces and nephews came into this world. Your mother and 3 sisters told us stories of you and allowed us to look through your unit photo boo...

2010 Deployment to Afghanistan
1st Battalion 2d Marine Regiment
Camp Lejeune, N.C.

KIA: April 28, 2010 in Helmand province, Afghanistan

“I’ve wanted to be a Marine since I was ten-years-old,” Thomas Rivers wrote in a high school essay. “I believe joining the Ma...