I just wanted to let you know that I am playing for you today. Are lacrosse team knows the military is very important and honor a game a year as military day. Your name is going to be on my helmet for the rest of my senior season and I will never forget your name. We are going to win today and lo...
Brett's grandfather Thomas Raymond Christian was a USMC Korean War combat veteran. He loved and respected his grandfather so dearly that he legally changed his middle and last names to reflect that admiration. Now two heroes of this great nation are together once more....for eternity. I miss your...
To my son...my HERO, I love you more then you will have ever known. The last 3 years have been the worst years of my life but I have also grown as a person, with your death. Life has a purpose now. To live the best I can until we finally see each other again. I know you are looking down on Dad, ...
Today we honor Joseph A. Garcia of Ely, Nevada, who fell on January 31, 1968. His friends and relatives from Ely and White Pine County proudly remember him with love and respect: "Joseph is memorialized as one of the “Ely 15”. Ely/White Pine County, NV suffered the highest per capita losses of th...
Airmen Missing From WWII Accounted For
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been accounted for and are being returned to their families for burial with full military hono...
Captain Abene was awarded the Purple Heart.
James "Jimmy" Lumpkins was a childhood friend of mine growing up in New Richmond, Ohio. I was saddened to here that he was killed in action. He deserves to be remembered as a great patron and hero of this great nation. God bless you Jimmy and your family!
Purple Heart
Bronze Star (Valor)
Dick Elmo Hall was an orphan. He enlisted in the regular army when he graduated high school and it was from those enlisted ranks that he received a Presidential appointment to West Point in the class of what became January, 1943. Upon graduation and completion of officer's basic he was promoted...
he will never be forgotten.
Sgt Byron Wayne Norwood, USMC, was 25 years old when he was killed in action in Fallujah, Iraq on Saturday, November 13, 2004.
Sgt Norwood was serving as a squad leader with the Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division (3/1), and was in his second deploy...