2Lt. Henry Allen is buried at Eastview Cemetery in Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina.
Philip-- You are missed more and more every day. You are a true hero that gave the ultimate sacrafice. I know that you are in heaven now because God needed a Marine by his side. I will see you again son. I love you
So young to be such a man. You were born to be a leader and inspire great things. We always knew that you were special and extremely gifted though we never would have thought we would see the day you were not here. We miss you and your guys miss you. They have been there for us in our time as tru...
George H. Gannon
October 1944, the Phillipines, along way from the small farm in NW Ohio.
Your passing came long before your nieces and nephews came into this world. Your mother and 3 sisters told us stories of you and allowed us to look through your unit photo boo...
Corporal Baggett was awarded the Purple Heart.
Specialist Fourth Class Leon J. Shrum was born in 1946 in Logan County, Kentucky. He joined the Army in May 1966 and was deployed to Vietnam in May 1967 as a member of the 557th Military Police Company. Specialist Fourth Class Shrum distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous action on 31...
Private Gensemer was on patrol in Leyte in the Philippines when he was captured by the Japanese and held as a prisoner of war.
It was reported that he was tortured to death. He had his feet burned, his head bashed in, bayonet wounds and fingernails ripped off. He was found partly burie...
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Captain Bob Arvin graduated from Ypsilanti High School as Valedictorian in 1961. Bob had captained the wrestling team and quarterbacked the “Braves” football squad. In addition, he had been student council president, president of his class for one year and the 1961 Michigan 154 pound wrestling ch...
To Joe,
The hole you left is big. A lot bigger, I think, than you probably figured it might be. The people you touched and the lives you changed are just that: changed. Never to go back to "normal." There's a new normal now, for an awful lot of people.
For me, our family seems inc...
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