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 friend Rick Page. Killed in action during a rocket attack, Phu Loi, Vietnam 19 July 11971.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing the memory and photo of Rick your friend SGT Jack McCabe May he never be forgotten Jack!
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My father,WO jg Grant McCabe. WW2 veteran (Pacific theatre) who died in 2008
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SGT Jack McCabe Thanks for the honoring your Father and sharing his photo. May his memory be everlasting my friend!
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COL this is Matthew Pucino
His family have established a foundation in his name and are helping veteran's families in Matthew's name.
His family have established a foundation in his name and are helping veteran's families in Matthew's name.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Jeff Shearer Thanks for sharing his photo and memory. May he be remembered now and forever Jeff!
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LTC Jeff Shearer
COL Mikel J. Burroughs - COL the Pucino family are unbelievable, Matt got it honest. It is unreal the things they have done, I just refer to them as Team Pucino
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LTC Jeff Shearer
COL Mikel J. Burroughs - COL I we lost several guys over the years. We lost a couple that were in my Company when I was a line CO CDR. These were not new they had been around and done lots of things.
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Ron Hill. KIA 1 May 1969. My last friend in Viet Nam. Did not want to know anyones name after that. Forever 21.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SP5 Peter Keane Thanks for sharing the photo and memory of your friend Ron Hill! May he rest in peace and never be forgotten Peter!
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I have lost a lot of patients who were veterans... Too many to count and pictures were not allowed due to privacy laws. May the rest in paradise.
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SPC Woody Bullard
SGT Rixe, while you do not have their pictures you have something more important.
The memories of those veterans which you carry with you for the rest of your days.
All of us need to be remembered by someone. Thank you for your service.
The memories of those veterans which you carry with you for the rest of your days.
All of us need to be remembered by someone. Thank you for your service.
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SGT Jennifer Rixe
Thank you SPC Woody Bullard I will carry their memory with me for the remainder of my days. I have had the privilege of taking care of veterans from our greatest generation and was the only person that they shared their stories with. Families of the departed were thankful that I was a veteran so that their loved one could rest easy not taking some of the things that they held inside for generations, to the grave. I love my job and am grateful every time I encounter a veteran who entrusts me with their secrets, with their nightmares, and with this sorrow. No one should ever have to take that to the grave with them......no one. I have chosen a few year ago, for veterans, I never say rest in peace.... it will always be rest in paradise because dang it, they deserve the best! Peace comes with being in paradise!
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Memorial Day can be a bad day for me if I let the demons out of their cage. So I do things to remind myself that those I lost would be real pissed if I spiral down. So I always remember Ralph, who after I lost him, has spent my lifetime kicking my ass to do the right thing. I wouldn't be honoring him if I didn't. So Ralph, here's to you and the countless others.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing CAPT Kevin B. and honoring Ralph! May he be remember today and forever Kevin!
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Senior Airman Robert Kelley 1953 Korea
Cpl W G Brown Pacific 1942
Private Eugene Kelley Europe 1944
Cpl W G Brown Pacific 1942
Private Eugene Kelley Europe 1944
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing the pictures and memories SFC Ralph E Kelley - They will not be forgotten!
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Life long friend of over 50 years, Russ Fitz of Duncan Falls OH. US Army WWII Battle of the Bulge, got out opened a gas station on the corner and spent the rest of his life doing what that generation did to make America Great.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSgt Robert Prest Thanks for sharing the link, memory, and photo of you rlife long friend Russ! May he be remember now and forever Robert!
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The was my Dad. A WWII Navy Veteran who went on to be the father of 14 children of which I'm the youngest. I can't begin to express what an amazing man he was. I miss him more than anything.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Marjorie Bellows Thanks for sharing the photo and memory of your father. May his memory live on forever!
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Marjorie Bellows
Thank you Mikel. His memory lives on alright, my kids always tell me I'm just like grandpa haha. He was a character.
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On Memorial Day, we remember the fallen in our country's service. My uncle, Daniel Villaneva Hermosillo, died when the USS Bache (DD-470) was hit in the last Kamikaze attack on a US Ship in WWII. His mother, my grandmother, was so distraught that she did not allow my mother to ever mention his name. I did not find out about him until after my mother's passing a few years ago. Like so many lost in WWII, his heroic sacrifice is what we remember on Memorial Day.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing this photo and wonderful memory CAPT David Bryant May he be remembered now and forever!
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