Purple Heart

Bronze Star (Merit)

Staff Sergeant Baguette was awarded the Bronze Star.

Air Medal

Obituary for Cpl. Jason David Mileo
CPL Jason David Mileo, USMC, died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, April 14, 2003. He was 20.

Born December 14, 1982, in Baltimore, MD, he was the son of Phillip James and Leah Marie Mileo Hall. He grew up in Pasadena, MD, and graduated from Chesap...

Delivered Cheyenne 26/6/43; Kearney 12/7/43; Dow Field 16/7/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG-K] Great Ashfield 21/7/43; detailed Bordeaux 16/9/43 with John Schley, Co-pilot: John Baum, Navigator: John Ellingsen, Bombardier: Earl Bates, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walter Roth, Radio Operator: J...

Military Services for PFC Thomas Harris (Obituary as written in THE SPENCER ADVOCATE; SPENCER, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1948) Funeral services were held for Pvt. Thomas L. (Leroy) Harris on Friday, September 3rd (1948) at the Community Hall at 2 o’clock p.m. The body arrived Wednesd...

I give thanks to Trino for letting us keep our mom here on earth for the amount of time we had her. She has now joined him in heaven along with our dad and Roland, our brother, plus numerous family members. He was an outstanding brother to us. For my 11th birthday, he sent me a birthday...

Major Abernathy was awarded the Air Medal.

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...

Willie was born and raised in Farmindale, New York. He was on vacation in North Carolina when he enlisted in the Marine Corps.

PFC Oxendine arrived in-country on 13 April 1968 and promptly was assigned to India 3/26 Marines. No problem there, except that India 3/26 was defending Hill ...

Staff Sergeant Christopher J. Chapman
11 May 1965 - 21 February 1991

SSG Chapman was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on 11 May 1965. He graduated from West Charlotte High School in 1983. While attending h...