Joe,

Thank you. You are my brother. I cannot tell you how much love and respect runs through me when I think of you. There are reminders of you in everything that I love. My son, my wife, my friends. That fact that you are no longer here is something that I do not believe that I will e...

I have come to realize time will likely never enable the aching rift in my being to heal or the illogical belief that as your Father I failed to keep you safe. Fathers are supposed to be the guardians. I also know Sons grow to be men, leave to take on the world and if lucky, become Fathers. Th...

I never got to know you. As a child, I would wish that you would come home, say you had been somewhere for a long time with amnesia. Wishful thinking on the part of a child! You truly gave it all, for the rest of us.

How did you meet your spouse?

I was a bet between friends. A friend of Eugene's was hitting on me for weeks when I was working in the mall. Eugene asked his friend, why haven't you asked her out. He replied "she wont go out with me". Eugene said I bet if you asked her she would. It's eas...

Today we honor Michael G. Donovan III of Central Islip, New York, who fell in 1968. January 30th would have been his birthday. He is remembered by his nephew, Edward.

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...

Ross his nickname was Billy,everyone called him that way. He was living in Richwood, West Virginia. Ross worked in a shop owned by the timber factory that has founded the town. On 13 April 1944 he was called into service and ended up with A Company, 50th AIB. Somewhere around new year he was capt...

MISS YOU EVERY DAY...SO PROUD TO BE YOUR MOM...YOU WERE MY STRENGTH...I LIVED LIFE THROUGH YOU...YOUR STILL BY MY SIDE AND LIVING IN MY HEART...THANK YOU SON...FOR PROTECTING AMERICA'S FREEDOM...SEE YOU SOON...LUV YA...MUMZ

Charles Trescott was good friend of my father and fellow soldier. I was named after Charles Trescott and Robert Johnston (Army, Casualty Date: 02/01/1968). God Bless them both.

As a young man, Stanley Kaplan was very active in the Boy Scouts; attaining the rank of Eagle Scout and serving as a Boy Scout leader during his senior year of high school. One of the most memorable stories of Stanley as a Boy Scout leader occurred when he took his Scouts on a camping trip. The c...