Posted on May 25, 2018
Do you have a Picture of a Veteran or Service Member that you've Lost to Share?
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RP Members and Connections Memorial Day is here. Please share your memories with us in a picture of those we honor and remember on this Memorial Day and those to come. This will be one of those questions that just keep giving us great memeories of those we've lost who served this great nation.
Here are pictures of my Father Donald Burroughs (Army Korean War Veteran) who passed on October 7, 2016, and my Father-in-Law Loren Leon Hazeldahl (Marine Vietnam Veteran) who died from suicide on December 8, 2015.
I have many more that I could add to this post and I will remember them in silence.
Please coninue to share your pictures and memories with the RP Nation for this Memorial Day and those to come.
Here are pictures of my Father Donald Burroughs (Army Korean War Veteran) who passed on October 7, 2016, and my Father-in-Law Loren Leon Hazeldahl (Marine Vietnam Veteran) who died from suicide on December 8, 2015.
I have many more that I could add to this post and I will remember them in silence.
Please coninue to share your pictures and memories with the RP Nation for this Memorial Day and those to come.
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My father entered the army at the age of 31 a few weeks after Japanese aircraft dropped bombs on the U.S. Navy ships in Pearl Harbor. He served in the South Pacific on the Islands of Okinawa, Saipan
and Iwo Jima. As a young boy I looked up to my father as my personal hero and a man I wanted to be like when I became a adult. When he passed away I lost my father and my best friend.
Photos are dad after BCT. Dad in center with his buddies holding machetes against his neck on Saipan.
Dad on right with his buddy on board a troop ship in South Pacific. Dad on Saipan's Isley Field.
and Iwo Jima. As a young boy I looked up to my father as my personal hero and a man I wanted to be like when I became a adult. When he passed away I lost my father and my best friend.
Photos are dad after BCT. Dad in center with his buddies holding machetes against his neck on Saipan.
Dad on right with his buddy on board a troop ship in South Pacific. Dad on Saipan's Isley Field.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SPC Woody Bullard Thanks for sharing all these wonderful pictures and memories of your father. He will never be forgotten Woody!
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SGT Rick Colburn
Sorry for the loss of your father so glad he was there for you to look up to as a father, friend and hero GOD'S BLESSINGS MY FRIEND AND BRO MP
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SPC Woody Bullard
SGT Rick Colburn - Dad passed away June 1, 1977. I know he is still with me today and lives on through me. Dad brought home physical and psychological problems when he returned to the states in 1945. War veterans returning home after World War II ended did not receive the help returning veterans receive today. Dad kept his war experience to himself until the day in 1968 when I enlisted in the Army. Only then did he start talking to me about his experiences during the war. I appreciate your very kind words and may God bless you on this special day. From a brother MP, THANK YOU.
Dad home in 1945 and he is 2nd from left on back row with his brothers in arms.
Dad home in 1945 and he is 2nd from left on back row with his brothers in arms.
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Father-in-Law. One among many of the greatest generation whose time has passed.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing this great photo and tribute to your father-in-law CMSgt (Join to see) - may he be remember now and forever Mark!
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Too many friends. I can't find pics of them all, but I wear them on my arm every day.
We Remember
We Remember
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
May they all RIP TSgt David L. We all have them in our hearts as well forever.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs My first memory is Lieutentant Commander Eric Allen Cranford, USN. He was one of those killed at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. My wife Marsha worked with Eric's wife Emily at the ManorCare Nursing Home in Fair Oaks, Virginia.
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I admired this man. He was my hero. Got to meet him when he attended my graduation from NCO Academy at Keesler AFB.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing a close memory and photo of someone you dearly admired TSgt Rodney Bidinger May his memory and service to country never be forgotten Rodney.
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LTC Stephen C.
TSgt Rodney Bidinger, I was fortunate to meet Col. Day on a three day cruise to the Bahamas out of Port Canaveral, FL in JUL92. The Legion of Valor was conducting their annual meeting on the cruise, and Col. Day was the keynote speaker for their dinner meeting (and, of course, a member). I introduced myself, and he graciously invited me to the dinner and presentation, which I immediately accepted and then attended! He signed a copy of his book "Return with Honor", which I have to this day.
Requiescat in pace.
Requiescat in pace.
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1Lt, Robert S Gressman, USA. KIA WWII, Battle of the Bulge, 4 Jan 1945
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Sgt Deborah Cornatzer Thanks for sharing Robert's Photo and memory. May he RIP and be remembered forever!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs, I’d like to remember my father also, although he was not a casualty of war. My father, Jack Curlee (ENS-LTJG) served in the U.S. Navy from JUL43 to JUN46 during WWII and spent much of that time in the Pacific Ocean on USS LST-78. He was an excellent father and husband. He was a quiet, genteel man, and a true gentleman. I’m glad he was my father.
He died 10SEP15 at the age of 93. Requiescant in pace patris mei.
CPT (Join to see) 1SG Mark Flowers
He died 10SEP15 at the age of 93. Requiescant in pace patris mei.
CPT (Join to see) 1SG Mark Flowers
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Stephen C. Thanks for the memory and picture of your father Stephen. May he be remember now and forever my friend.
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We lost 92 young men from Lorain county, Ohio....I knew many of them from my high school. GOD hold them close, please.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
I'm sorry to hear that SGT Roger Bunton May their names and memories never be forgotten by the county of Lorain Ohio.
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Corpsman Edwin Gonzalez, aka “Superman”
Rest easy brother, until Valhalla...
Rest easy brother, until Valhalla...
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks MAJ(P) (Join to see) for sharing the memory and picture of Navy Hospital Corpsman Edwin Gonzalez. May his memory be with us all forever Robert!
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I caption this picture as 2 sets of brother. My brother on the far right, Dad in the middle, and his brother right in front of him. He has been stationed in Luxembourg since Jan 7 1945.
Also have Dad's Brother Vern, WWII, AAF, died of brain cancer in 1978. Dad's brother Bill was killed in a train accident just before WWII. Uncle Ed was in WWII as a Marine, he died of a car accident in 1955. Ed's son, who we call Uncle Jake, died 6 weeks ago. He flew in 168 combat missions in a C-121 snoop plane in Vietnam. My Dad, Brother and I, all retired Air Force. That spans Korea, Vietnam, El Dorado Canyon, Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Johnson's have served, but we have run out of men to continue.
Also have Dad's Brother Vern, WWII, AAF, died of brain cancer in 1978. Dad's brother Bill was killed in a train accident just before WWII. Uncle Ed was in WWII as a Marine, he died of a car accident in 1955. Ed's son, who we call Uncle Jake, died 6 weeks ago. He flew in 168 combat missions in a C-121 snoop plane in Vietnam. My Dad, Brother and I, all retired Air Force. That spans Korea, Vietnam, El Dorado Canyon, Desert Shield/Desert Storm. Johnson's have served, but we have run out of men to continue.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
TSgt Larry Johnson Thanks for sharing all the photos and memories of your family. May they all be forever remembered Larry. I've been to the Luxembourg cemetery many times in the past when I was stationed in Belgium. That is a beautiful cemetery.
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