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It is really hard to imagine your friends passing but as you reconnect with your fellow military members you find out things that are heartbreaking. Right now, I am dealing with an imminent loss and an unexpected death of one of my friends while in Germany. Last year it was SMSgt Floyd Parton (Lou Gehrigs Disease -ALS). What a decent man!!!
The other day I found out that TSgt Kimberly Reeb has also passed away to Cancer and she was probably in her early 50s. Still too young imho. Then I have a friend who was in Vietnam and a weather forecaster who is dying with Leukemia. He wants to remain anonymous name-wise, but I have been conversing with him for months. He also had four heart attacks but it appears Leukemia has it's own heartbreak.
I dreamed about him passing last night. The lonely loss of a military brother. Also lost a SSgt in a C-5A crash that took Randy's life. We played softball together at Volgelweh. Kaiserslautern.
Who do you know that has passed or is passing and give a shout out to the heroes that died before us?
The other day I found out that TSgt Kimberly Reeb has also passed away to Cancer and she was probably in her early 50s. Still too young imho. Then I have a friend who was in Vietnam and a weather forecaster who is dying with Leukemia. He wants to remain anonymous name-wise, but I have been conversing with him for months. He also had four heart attacks but it appears Leukemia has it's own heartbreak.
I dreamed about him passing last night. The lonely loss of a military brother. Also lost a SSgt in a C-5A crash that took Randy's life. We played softball together at Volgelweh. Kaiserslautern.
Who do you know that has passed or is passing and give a shout out to the heroes that died before us?
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Here is my tribute to the fallen . . .
I took my Platoon Book from boot camp and looked up every name and compared it to the Vietnam Memorial's list on line. I made sure every everyone one of them had a "Remembrance Page" page on the web sit TWS-Marines. Some had already been remembered but some had not so I created pages for them as their sponsor. Every Veterans Day I send in a contribution in remembrance of these fallen Marines, by name, with whom I started my military career.
I challenge everyone on this site to do like wise regardless of conflict or if they died during peace time while on active duty (or not if you would like). I especially challenge those from the Vietnam era to do this.
I took my Platoon Book from boot camp and looked up every name and compared it to the Vietnam Memorial's list on line. I made sure every everyone one of them had a "Remembrance Page" page on the web sit TWS-Marines. Some had already been remembered but some had not so I created pages for them as their sponsor. Every Veterans Day I send in a contribution in remembrance of these fallen Marines, by name, with whom I started my military career.
I challenge everyone on this site to do like wise regardless of conflict or if they died during peace time while on active duty (or not if you would like). I especially challenge those from the Vietnam era to do this.
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SSgt (Join to see)
I have a couple updates to my own tribute pages and I thank you for reminding of me of that or at least being aware of that responsibility.
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SSgt (Join to see), Arthur Manos graduated from Robert E. Lee High School, Jacksonville, FL with me on June 4, 1967, and he's another soldier that I keep in mind.
He joined the United States Army soon after graduation and served as an infantryman in C Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), U.S. Army Vietnam. When Private First Class Manos made the ultimate sacrifice in the Gia Dinh province of South Vietnam he was only nineteen years old and had not even been out of high school a year.
He is buried in Orange Park, FL and his name is located on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. at panel 56E, row 27.
Requiescat in pace.
1LT Sandy Annala and 1LT L S and SGT (Join to see) SGT Mark Anderson CSM Charles Hayden
He joined the United States Army soon after graduation and served as an infantryman in C Company, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One), U.S. Army Vietnam. When Private First Class Manos made the ultimate sacrifice in the Gia Dinh province of South Vietnam he was only nineteen years old and had not even been out of high school a year.
He is buried in Orange Park, FL and his name is located on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. at panel 56E, row 27.
Requiescat in pace.
1LT Sandy Annala and 1LT L S and SGT (Join to see) SGT Mark Anderson CSM Charles Hayden
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LTC Stephen C.
1LT L S, it's a nice sentiment, but for the most part, I think we must realistically see ourselves as so aptly expressed by Kerry Livgren (Kansas), "Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind."
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LTC Stephen C.
PO2 William Allen Crowder, give yourself a break! You've come a long way since you started on RP!
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PV2 Violet Case
sorry for you friend LTC Stephen Curlee, May he R.I.P. It is to bad we do not have a memorial page when one passes away and can animate the flag to fly at half mast on the site here.
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