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| This page is for all our service people, both past and present!! And for the memory of our POW/MIA and their families. Adopt a POW/MIA and make our government account for them. We sent them there, now we need to bring them HOME!!!!!! I will be listing sites on here soon, including the two I adopted. |
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| A Letter to a Vet� |
| "THINGS YOU DIDN'T DO" �� |
| Remember the day I borrowed your brand new car and I dented it? I thought you'd kill me, but you didn't. Remember the time I dragged you to the beach, and you said it would rain, and it did. �I thought you'd say, "I told you so." But you didn't. Do you remember the time I flirted with all the guys to make you jealous, and you were? �I thought you'd leave me, but you didn't. Do you remember the time I spilled strawberry pie all over your car rug? �I thought you'd hit me, but you didn't. Remember the time I forgot to tell you the dance was formal and you showed up in jeans? I thought you'd drop me, but you didn't. Yes, there were lots of things you didn't do, But you put up with me, and you loved me, and you protected me. There were lots of things I wanted to make up to you when you returned from Viet Nam. But you didn't!! |
| From 1950 to 1953, the United States joined with United Nations forces in Korea to take a stand against what was deemed a threat to democratic nations worldwide. At war's end, a million and a half American veterans returned to a peacetime world of families, homes, and jobs - and to a country long reluctant to view the Korean War as something to memorialize. But to the men and women who served, the Korean War could never be a forgotten war. The passing of more than four decades has brought a new perspective to the war and its aftermath. The time has come, in the eyes of the Nation, to set aside a place of remembrance for the people who served in this hard-fought war half a world away. The Korean War Veterans Memorial honors those Americans who answered the call, those who worked and fought under the trying of circumstances, and those who gave their lives for the cause of freedom. |
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| This is a tribute to the fifty Air Force officers and airmen who lost their lives and the four who survived: The crew members on three Air Force EC-121H Aircraft which crashed in the North Atlantic Ocean on July 11,1965, November 11, 1966, and April 25, 1967 while defending our nations North Atlantic Frontier. � |
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| James Perkins Lyle |
| Robert Abner Baird |
| Howard N. Franklyn |
| Edward N. Anaka |
| Michael R. Barbolla |
| Murray J. Brody |
| Frank R. Ferguson |
| Frederick H. Ambrosia |
| Thomas Fielder |
| Richard K. Hoppe |
| Edward William Taylor |
| Larry Denning Rucker |
| Ira J. Husik |
| Robert E. Mulhern |
| Armand Henry DiBonaventura |
| Frank W. Garner, Jr. |
| Clarence David Hendrickson |
| Robert Allen Thibodeau |
| John Joseph Nerolich |
| Gilbert T. Armstong |
| Gordon O. Hamman |
| Arthur Joseph Lambert |
| Eugene J. Schreivogel |
| Richard D. Bearden |
| Francis J. Griffin |
| John L. Howard |
| Lawrence Elton McNeill |
| James Robert Pater |
| Robert James Simmons |
| Robert Sparks |
| Raymond M. Washam |
| Joseph Frank Adamick, Jr. |
| Robert J. Clapper |
| Richard D. Gravely |
| Theodore E. LaPointe, Jr. |
| James Dwight Rodgers |
| Charles K. Sawyer |
| William M. Walsh |
| George R. West |
| David Norman Bailey |
| Dennis E. Boyle |
| Danny R. Burden |
| William M. Cook |
| William E. Howe |
| Roger Paul Kay |
| Larry Lee Stoner |
| James David Wilbur |
| Charles H. Williams |
| Dennis R. Cole |
| Charles J. Podiaski |
| � The following are the 2 officers and 2 airmen who were the only survivors. 1. Joseph H. Guenet 2. Bruce E. Witcher 3. John N. Puopolo 4. David A. Surles � ���� |
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| ��� �� � ��WOMEN ARE VETERANS, TOO � � �We weren't just tokens or pretty faces, to decorate your offices and platoons; �we weren't dumb, too plain or too stupid to make it in the real world. �We've marched your muddy roads, carried and shot your heavy guns. �We've been shot at, wounded, and died, and been prisoners of war. �We've been active in all services, and risen to high ranks. �We've tended your bleeding wounds, and held you when you were dying. �We've flown your mighty airplanes and navigated your giant ships. �We've fixed your broken engines and driven heavy equipment. �We've mailed letters for you, and brought you news from home. �We've stood along side of you, without flinching or running away, and continue to stand by you today. We are not asking for special treatment, or that you should go out of your way. �We're only asking that you recognize that women are veterans, too. � by Lynda K. Dokken USMC 1966-67 � + �+ � + � + �Fallen Soldier + � + � + � �+ � A Soldier has fallen He will not be forgotten His spirit dwells in those Whose lives he touched He has lead us He has taught us He has shown us the way He gave us all of himself Because he was made that way He gave birth to an idea That will never go away He did this all To save us some day As all heroes do � by CW3 Roque Gonzalez � � � � �Freedom �It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the Freedom of the press. �It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us Freedom of speech. �It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the Freedom to demonstrate. � �It is the soldier, who serves beneath the Flag, who salutes the Flag, whose coffin is draped by the Flag, who allows the protester to burn the Flag. It is the soldier, not the politician, who has given his blood, his body, his life. |
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