Decorated Hero - Congressional Medal of Honor for action in September 1950. Received Battle Commission during service with 6th Infantry in Pacific Theater of Operation from New Guenia to the Phillipans. First marriage to Billy Jo Hosler and divorced in later days of WWII. Brother of Ivan Henry a ...

I met Melford the day he died. He talk about how much he missed his wife and kids while fueling up my humble. Later that night I received orders to drive to a mine field to help with a wounded soilder. To my shock it was PFC Collins and we tried to revive but he passed. I transported his body to ...

For 68 years my family did not know the exact circumstances of my great uncle's death until I received the following information from the 29th Infantry Division on 13 January 2012:

"Private Baldwin joined Company E, 115th Infantry, on Sept. 4, 1944 as a replacement, in the middle of t...

Remembering Abraham:
In 1998, during the Liberian civil wars, U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Abraham Tarwoe, then age 12, fled the violence of his home country, searching for peace in Providence, RI. “For many reasons, he didn’t want to leave Liberia, he had his friends and his life, but he s...

Almost 57 years and you have never lost my love. Daddy I've prayed since I was 11 for God to bring you home. When I was that little girl I prayed I'd be a good girl and do everything that mom and you would tell me to do. Now I pray please just let them find you. It's been so long . But ...

Lowell Henry Rost, child of God, was a member of Arlington Hills Lutheran Church. His Memorial Service was held on December 31, 1944. The following information is taken from the Memorial program:

Biography
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, February 6, 1920.
Confirmed in the Luthe...

My great-uncle Billy. He was killed when his ship the USS Strong DD-467 was hit by a Japanese type 93 torpedo just after midnight July 5, 1943 in the Kula Gulf of the Solomon Islands.

William (Billy as we called him) was a quiet guy yet funny. He was also very compassionate, stubborn, kind, loving and loyal. The guys he served with told us how he could take them somewhere and remember how to get them back. His sense of direction was incredible. They referred to him as very...

It has been 4 yrs 8 mos since I lost my beloved son. Brett was my oldest of 2 sons. He was only 22 yrs old when he was killed on Jan 7, 2006. Brett was such a fun loving child. He and his younger brother, Ed, grew up Marine brats. They were destined to be Marines, but I changed my youngest son's ...

SSG Beard was awarded the Bronze Star.

Howell - Sergeant Rocky Dennis Payne, 26, was killed while serving his country in Iraq on March 16, 2005.

He was born on May 19, 1978 in Brigham City, Utah to Dennis William and Percilla Marie Abbott Payne.

Rocky was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints i...

Holly will always be my hero. I don't know where she got her courage and bravery from but she sure had a lot of both. I remember telling her during our first phone conversation when she was in Iraq. If I were her I would be lying in the middle of the desert crying "I want My Mom". She laughed at ...

Staff Sergeant Baggett was awarded the Navy Cross.