Memorial Day remembrance/drinking thread

[LittleLebowski]

LSP972
Therrell Childers
Pat Rogers
ToddG (though not a veteran, he passionately loved our country and supported our veterans)
Efrain Martinez
Stephen Camp

[JHC]

Weston Lee, KIA 29APR17 MOSUL
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[StraitR]

Melvin Otten - US Army - WWII CIB - Guard at International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg.
Dennis Richter - US Navy - USS Ranger

[HCountyGuy]

LCpl Denver Short.

Guy was kind of a dick in high school, but turned out alright from accounts of people who served with him. Took his own life August 29, 2012. One of the last people I'd think to do that.

[Erick Gelhaus]

John Leach, Todd Zephier, & Darryl Shirley;
Alfredo Silva, Mike Sonoda, Dan Schiele, Paul Neubauer, and Shakere Guy;

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

[SeriousStudent]

Cpl John Alfonso
LCpl Richard Anglin
2ndLt Darren Bell
PFC Saul Castro
PFC Kurt Decker
LCpl Michael Depew
HN Jimmie Fejeran, USN
LCpl Andrew Hernandez
LCpl Ronald Johnson
LCpl Anthony Longstaff
Cpl Brian McCluskey
LCpl Wilbur McDaniel
Capt Michael McGreevy
1stLt David Pimple
LCpl Carl Ratcliff
Cpl Keith Silha
SSgt Jorge Verdugo
1stLt Kevin Wooten
Sgt James Zinser

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[JohnO]

Gone and missed dearly. My father-in-law Dan B. departed this life June 2016. ROTC at Fordham Univ. Veteran of WWII & Korea served in both the Army and the Air Force.
http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c286/Blaster3094/c0a567bc-7590-425e-8865-7727055cebc7_zpskc33vprx.jpg

[Drang]

My father in law, USN, 1943-1956.
His brothers, also all USN.
My best friend George S, SSG, USA (Ret.) Didn't make it a year past retirement.

[EricP]

SSgt Weldon Chase

[breakingtime91]

Cpl Leicht, 1st LAR, one of my mentors killed by an IED while on patrol.

Lcpl Rodrigues, 1st LAR, my best friend, killed by his own hand after returning from a harsh deployment.

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[breakingtime91]

Weston Lee, KIA 29APR17 MOSUL
1694816949

Weston from all accounts I heard was a man I would of loved to serve with. I never knew him and teared up when hearing his friend discussing his character and leadership. Rest easy sir, drinks are on me when I get to the hall.

[JHC]

Weston from all accounts I heard was a man I would of loved to serve with. I never knew him and geared up when hearing his friend discussing his character and leadership. Rest easy sir, drinks are on me when I get to the hall.
At just 25 he was one of the best human beings I've known. Here was his non-stop attitude.16962

[breakingtime91]

At just 25 he was one of the best human beings I've known. Here was his non-stop attitude.16962

I will raise a glass to him tonight, we are diminished.

[45dotACP]

Vernon McAllister, USN. My grandfather and a veteran of the South Pacific, who passed earlier this year surrounded by those he loved.

Rest in peace grandpa Mac.

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[GardoneVT]

USAF Staff Sgt. Ira Kaur.


Vaya con Dios brother. You'll be missed.

[Ed L]

My Uncle Harry who served in WWII in Europe and died in 1987. He was a second father to me and raised me for many years:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i232/eds-stuff/Uncle%20Harry%201_zpsf9m1mgq3.jpg

I have a photo album of him in WWII put together by a friend from his unit. In it came this letter:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i232/eds-stuff/Uncle%20Harry%20letter_zpsoq0txryy.jpg

A few years ago I decided to look \ the person who sent this letter and photo album to my late Uncle Harry. I'd been putting it off for years. As I'd suspected, he is no longer with us. It turns out that he died a few months after my uncle in Oct 1987, 18 years after he wrote the letter and sent him the album: Here is what I found:
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14186767

[Duelist]

SGT Mila Maravillosa

And many others.

[LSP552]

Sgt. James C. Brown, waist gunner in B17s flying from England when it wasn’t statistically impossible to survive. Father-In-Law and good friend.

The only member of his crew to survive the war. He was pulled off a mission to work in the armory and help with a bunch of new 50s. A new replacement gunner flew that mission, and the pane was shot down without survivors. He continued to fly, made his missions, and extended for more. Never got a scratch. Passed away in 1999.

LSP792 - Steve Campbell

[TR675]

RIP to my grandfathers. Army, artillary scout in the ETO in WWII; Navy, Pacific Theater, USS Columbia.

RIP as well to my Great-grandfather and namesake, IS Army, WWI. Gassed in the trenches and never fully recovered.

All of them lived to see their families grow and prosper. In remembrance of them and their brethren who were not as fortunate.


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[SeriousStudent]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqyE_2HvOF8

Let us honor all, regardless of service branch, who gifted this country with their sacrifice.