My son PFC Shane Cantu was a 3 year starter for Corunna High School Varsity Football. Shane loved football, if they would him pitch a tent on the field, he would have. Shane has an awesome sense of humor, could always make people laugh, just bring you up when you're feeling down. He liked be...

For never before in story or rhyme (not even once upon a time) has the world ever known a you, my friend, and it never will, not ever again. . . (from On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman)

The Official US Army Register entries for Simon B. Buckner Jr.:

Born in Kentucky July 18, 1886.

He entered the US Military Academy on June 16, 1904. He graduated 58 out of a class of 108 on February 14, 1908. In his graduating year he was a Lieutenant in the Corps of Cadets ...

SOME GAVE ALL

The fight to liberate Italy was as fierce and heroic as any seen in the war. The dangers to each adversary -- the danger was such that the outcome of the war itself seemed to hang at that moment on the valor and vigor of each man who struggled near the water's edge. One such soldier was Sergeant ...

The remains of a WWII veteran from Flint were returned to Michigan and laid to rest after nearly 80 years.

While fighting against Germany, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Max Thurston was killed in action in November 1944, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). He was 19 years...

KIA: WWII: US NAVY, Chief Machinists Mate Loyal Irving Mattis, Born: 20 Jan 1921, Enlistment: 26 Jan 1939, Died: 1 Nov 1944, on USS Anderson, Cabalian Bay, Philippines, Buried: Flint Memorial Park Cemetery, Flint, Michigan.

MUSTER ROLLS: 16 May 1939 Trans to USS Anderson.

MU...

My husband is the best of everything. He believes in my children always. His one go to thing was well have you thought about the rest? We were 20 yrs old

Charlie was and still is my best friend, he was a great young man and I still think of him many years later. We met in Okinawa wnen 2/4 was training to head back to Nam. We were in separate companies but became close friends and I could tell he was a special person. We would go out into kin viill...

KIA WWII
Iwo Jima
Cpl USMCR
456909
Co A, 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, 3rd Marine Division, FMF

Parents:
Mr. & Mrs. John Adams
1805 Bessemer Blvd, Birmingham Al