Purple Heart
His name is Thomas Gerald Dickerson. Everybody called him Tommy or Buck. I simply call him Daddy. Buck is the name that other veterans remember him by. I never knew my daddy. He was killed when I was 4 months old. He never got to come home between the time I was born and his death. My gr...
Tunisia, Africa Names from bottom to top: Sgt. Frank Mattini, Sgt. Babe Brinkley, Pvt. Joe May, Sgt. Bon Lowell, Sgt. Steve Yarbor, and Pvt. Will Taylor. They were returning from the Tunisian camp.
T Sergeant Walter Roth was awarded the Air Medal.
TSgt. Claude Bunch was from the area of Shelby county, Alabama. He also had some connections to Winter Park, Orange County, Florida. He had served during World War II. During his service in Vietnam, he was part of a team that were killed when chemical delay-fuzed bombs detonated while they att...
Joseph Rease Errgang is my mother's only sibling. I am writing this tribute to document the history of this Gold Star Family. Joe served in the Marines during WWII. He was training officer candidates after WWII when he was deployed to Korea. On the night of February 27, 1953 Joe disappeared f...
Hollywood legend, James Stewart, quietly served his country during World War II in the U.S. Army and continued to do so post war with the Air Force Reserve. He ultimately achieved the rank of Brigadier General before retiring in 1968, the same year he proudly pinned the gold bars of a U.S. Marine...
Purple Heart
Birth: Dec. 3, 1963
West Caldwell
Essex County
New Jersey, USA
Death: May 18, 2010, Afghanistan
Col. John M. McHugh, 46, of Newark, N.J.; assigned to the U.S. Army Battle Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; died May 18 in Kabul, Afghanistan, of wound...
Not a day goes by that we don't miss you. Your smile, your laugh, your hugs and your wonderful sense of humor. We marvel at your accomplishments and imagine how far you would have gone if you had the chance. The friends you touched everywhere you went have guided us through the horror of life ...
PFC Ryan J Hill, loved his family and friends. He believe in Freedom, Faith, and Family.
Although I never got to know you, your presence was always a force behind everything Ursula did. Your motivation, dedication, hard work, and integrity showed through the memories our mother, grandparents, uncles, aunts and friends shared about you. I wish I could have known you like they did.
Major Ralph Truitt Amoss is buried in the Cambridge American Cemetery, Cambridge, England in Plot E, Row 1, Grave 68. At the age of 21 Ralph Amoss joined the US Army from Austin, Texas on November 25, 1940. Sometime after completing basic training as a Private he was accepted for flying school, b...