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.
Edited 6 y ago
Posted 6 y ago
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SSgt Carrie Foster Campbell Thanks for sharing the photo and memory of your father! May he be remembered now and forever Carrie!
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I love looking at these! I don't recall if I added to this yet, but what the heck- here he is again. My Dad- TSGT/Ret USAF Edward S. Wall
WWII- 325th Glider Infantry Regiment- 52nd Troop Carrier Sqdn- flew and trained pilots on the WACO CG4-A
Korea
Viet Nam- C130 Ops at Tan Se Nhut Airbase
WWII- 325th Glider Infantry Regiment- 52nd Troop Carrier Sqdn- flew and trained pilots on the WACO CG4-A
Korea
Viet Nam- C130 Ops at Tan Se Nhut Airbase
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing your memories of your Dad MAJ Karen Wall - May he be remember for all time!
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My late Father in Law Salvatore LaMacchia who was a SSgt in the US Army in WWII. He had come ashore via landing craft on three separate Japanese held Islands including both Guam and Okinawa. We had a great relationship and He had even told Me some things that He hadn't even shared with My Mother in Law. I don't compare MY experience with some of the things He had to do in WWII combat but it seems He felt comfortable talking with Me as a Viet Nam Veteran about some of those things which He never told anyone else. I do miss Him, He was a good man and someone that I could look up to. He was buried with Military Honors and three of His Four son in Laws were Veterans of the Armed Forces although I was the only one in a combat zone. I still think of Him often.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
Thanks for sharing SMSgt Lawrence McCarter the memory of your father-in-law. May he never be forgotten Lawrence.
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In the boonie cover is Sgt Zachary Jasper (Cpl at the time photo was taken). He took his own life not long after I rotated out of Okinawa. Never guessed he'd have been one to do it. We'd been through MOS School and our first units together; more or less. Most motivated Marine I've ever met.
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MAJ Karen Wall
I am so sorry for your loss---- and actually OUR loss of a brother in arms. May he be at peace.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SGT Aaron Atwood Thank you for sharing the memory of Sgt Zachary Jasper and we're all heartbroken by those who've died from suicide. I lost my Marine After-in-Law to suicide as well. May they all rest in peace Aaron!
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My grandfather CPL Wayne Dale Allred, 26th AAA AW BN (SP), 1953-55, Quad-50 gunner. Died in '85 when I was 2. I was already branched Air Defense when I found out he was a quad-50 gunner in the Anti-Air Artillery in Korea. Now I really have to listen to my NCOs in Air Defense since he WAS one.
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My cousin, Specialist Jacob S. Fletcher, killed by an IED in Samara, Iraq, November 13th, 2003. That is me at his funeral....
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
So very sory for the loss SCPO Jason McLaughlin Thanks for sharin this memory and phot with the RP Nation; may he never be forgotten Jason!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC Tom Jones Thanks for sharing the photo and memory of your dearly departed brother. May he never be forgotten Tom!
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Went to Arlington to visit him, Andrew, you will never be forgotten brother! A week after he died another fellow NCO died, SGT Collins, rest well brother!
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SGT Joni Hughes Thanks for sharing the memory of Andrew with us Joni. May he RIP and never be forgotten. Let's remember in our hearts and minds SGT Collins as well.
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