You left too soon. I never got to know you. I was only 13 months old when you left. My life would have been so different. I only hope I made you proud.
Jesse Melton III was raised in Randallstown, MD. He received his early academic education in Baltimore County public schools. He attended Randallstown High School where he excelled in all subjects, and simultaneously participated and demonstrated skill in extracurricular activities such as lacros...
Memorial Sign
There was a poem written on the back of Earl's original picture. The notation prior to the poem was: "I have packed this picture in my barracks all through maneuvers."
Remember me when this you see
Tho Many a mile apart we be
Remembers me and so will I
Remember you unti...
My father was born in 1899 and was in France in 1919. In Nov 1941 he arrived in Manila and eventually moved to Mindanao where he was when the Southern Command surrendered. He was a poisoner of the Japanese for 3 1/2 years and was transferred to main land Japan in early 1945 and died in a military...
Missed forever
When I think of you, I do not like to think of you as gone, that hurts my heart, but I think of you like it was the other day and you were alive and well, enjoying life. We do not get up to Arlington as much as I would like and I fear that the older your dad and I get, that this may become a har...
In May, 2000, as a high school senior, Michael wrote that he wanted to be a soldier or something of that caliber. He wrote that he often dreamed that he was a soldier in a war. In that war he was helping to liberate people from oppression. Michael wanted to live forever, he wrote that the only wa...
A family photo collage with our son
Today we honor we honor Robert S. Byrnes of Carmichael, California, who fell in 1968. Today December 16, is his birthday. He is remembered by Jim and Judi Byrnes: "He served with Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Artillery 196th. Over 50 years later, we love and miss him as if it were yesterday." ...
Ryan I never dreamed in a million years that as I was holding you after you were born that I would be writing this tribute to you. I promise you son....I will tell the world your story. As long as there is breathe in my body, your sacrifice will never be forgotten. I have created a tribute to ...