Sam will never be forgotten! Gone to soon.
Tribute to Captain Charles F. Pratte, Jr. World War II Pilot of the US 7th AAF Pilot of the B-24 Liberator: the Belle of Texas Missing in Action January 22, 1945 This is a tribute to Captain Charles F. Pratte, Jr., a well-respected pilot of the 7th Army Air Force, 42nd Squadron, 11th Bomb...
The youngest of 5 military servicemen gunned down on July 16, 2015 in Chattanooga TN by a terrorist, LCpl Skip Wells was a Marine, a hero, a son, grandson, nephew and a friend. It was the things that made Skip the man and Marine he was, that drove the community to rise up in support of each other...
Dear Uncle Bob: I love you and honor you every day. I never knew you but your sister, my mom, Helen, told me all about you and your memory lives in me because of her. Thank you for your sacrifice so that my family can be free. I love you.
He was just a kid. 2nd Lt. William Russell Bailey was my mother's little brother, her only sibling. The outbreak of World War II and the chance to serve ignited a flame in him. He terminated an engineering curriculum at the University of Kentucky to volunteer for service shortly after his eighte...
Alden Synstad is a man I never had the pleasure to meet. Sadly few are alive today who had the pleasure.
My mother was a small child when Alden left his home in Northern Wisconsin to join the Marines. He was killed during the Battle of Okinawa. He returned home to be buried after the ...
I'm actually Nookie's second cousin and I never met him, but heard so much about him from my father. I wanted to pay tribute to "Nookie" for his service and because he was an only child, to let him know family still thinks of him.
Kenny had this big goofy smile Alwthere even when he slept. When you had a bad day, He was one of those people that would make jokes or purposefully stumble, knocking his head into a tree trunk just to make you smile or laugh. Whatever heavy burden you were carrying, he made it disappear. ...
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...
LCPL Baer was awarded the Purple Heart for his service.
Reuben was born November 23, 1912 in Jefferson County, TN and died during the Battle of the Bulge on January 30, 1945. He lost his brother on the USS Cooper on December 3, 1944 less than two months before he was killed in action. My grandfather suffered a great loss during the war, losing both hi...
David was my hero before he became a hero to anyone else.
Hospitalman Melvin Windham is buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso, Texas.
According to Findagrave.com:
On May 09, 1968, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, was the point company in a battalion-sized operation pursuing North Vietnamese Army elements that...