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Who comes to mind as you think about Memorial Day [Please post pictures if you can]?
Throughout the year service members, veterans, widows and widowers and their family members remember the dead family members, friends brothers and sisters in arms who died in the service of this nation [or allied nations].
On Memorial Day 2021, I hope and pray that many American's will be enjoying fellowship and feasting at cook-outs and cook-ins where weather is inclement.
During this COVID-risk season many have been cooped up and forced to distance themselves from loved ones.
My thoughts drift to our comrade-in-arms SP5 Mark Kuzinski and his grieving wife Diana as well as our friend SPC Diana D..
Children look forward to the end of school and children in northern states clamor for the pools on the first weekend they are open - even though the water is cool :-)
Many in this nation, including me, pause to reflect on our dead brothers and sister-in-arms, family members and friends who were killed in service to this nation or died from wounds received.
I still remember these friends and brothers in arms who have transitioned to their eternal destination.
I did not know my paternal grandfather well - he served as a British Army Lance Corporal in WWI from Gallipoli, Turkey through the trench fighting in France and Belgium where he was wounded. His brother who also served in the BEF was killed with his wife when a German bomb hit their house in southern England during the battle of Britain. I am putting my grandfather's image in his stead.
I pray for each one who is grieving the loss of their family member especially that you will have peace and joy in the midst of your grief and that you are getting to the point where the memories don't have pain or anger attached.
Images:
1. 1915 Grandfather - British Army Lance Corporal William John Field [1884-1963] Ford during the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915 died on December 7, 1963.
2. 1980-04-11 Reggie_Johnson_1980_Howitzer_Image. Drowned in the Sandhurst competition at West Point.
3. 1992-10-22 SSG George Brewster. Killed as a First Sergeant assigned to 101st Airmobile Division.
4. 1984-12-16 CPT Winburn Drew Harrington from USMA Howitzer 1980. He was killed shielding soldiers in a live-fire in Honduras while assigned to 2nd Ranger Battalion.
5. 2016 Brent M Combs (1984-2016) murdered. He was a veteran who helped other veterans at Martinsburg, WV VAMC.
6. SP5 Mark Kuzinski
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Col Carl Whicker Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Marty Hogan SMSgt Tom Burns SMSgt Lawrence McCarter SMSgt David A Asbury Cpl James R. " Jim" Gossett Jr MSgt James Clark-Rosa PO2 (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell SGT Steve McFarland SFC William Farrell SGT James Murphy
Throughout the year service members, veterans, widows and widowers and their family members remember the dead family members, friends brothers and sisters in arms who died in the service of this nation [or allied nations].
On Memorial Day 2021, I hope and pray that many American's will be enjoying fellowship and feasting at cook-outs and cook-ins where weather is inclement.
During this COVID-risk season many have been cooped up and forced to distance themselves from loved ones.
My thoughts drift to our comrade-in-arms SP5 Mark Kuzinski and his grieving wife Diana as well as our friend SPC Diana D..
Children look forward to the end of school and children in northern states clamor for the pools on the first weekend they are open - even though the water is cool :-)
Many in this nation, including me, pause to reflect on our dead brothers and sister-in-arms, family members and friends who were killed in service to this nation or died from wounds received.
I still remember these friends and brothers in arms who have transitioned to their eternal destination.
I did not know my paternal grandfather well - he served as a British Army Lance Corporal in WWI from Gallipoli, Turkey through the trench fighting in France and Belgium where he was wounded. His brother who also served in the BEF was killed with his wife when a German bomb hit their house in southern England during the battle of Britain. I am putting my grandfather's image in his stead.
I pray for each one who is grieving the loss of their family member especially that you will have peace and joy in the midst of your grief and that you are getting to the point where the memories don't have pain or anger attached.
Images:
1. 1915 Grandfather - British Army Lance Corporal William John Field [1884-1963] Ford during the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915 died on December 7, 1963.
2. 1980-04-11 Reggie_Johnson_1980_Howitzer_Image. Drowned in the Sandhurst competition at West Point.
3. 1992-10-22 SSG George Brewster. Killed as a First Sergeant assigned to 101st Airmobile Division.
4. 1984-12-16 CPT Winburn Drew Harrington from USMA Howitzer 1980. He was killed shielding soldiers in a live-fire in Honduras while assigned to 2nd Ranger Battalion.
5. 2016 Brent M Combs (1984-2016) murdered. He was a veteran who helped other veterans at Martinsburg, WV VAMC.
6. SP5 Mark Kuzinski
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs Col Carl Whicker Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Lt Col Charlie Brown MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Marty Hogan SMSgt Tom Burns SMSgt Lawrence McCarter SMSgt David A Asbury Cpl James R. " Jim" Gossett Jr MSgt James Clark-Rosa PO2 (Join to see) SGT (Join to see) SPC Michael Terrell SGT Steve McFarland SFC William Farrell SGT James Murphy
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For me it's Maj Nutter J. Wimbrow. He was a single guy not slated for an Arc Light tour but volunteered to replace a married crewmember whose wife would have given birth while he was deployed. KIA December 26, 1972.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you my friend and brother-in-arms, brother-in-Christ Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen for making us aware that you are honoring Maj Nutter J. Wimbrow whose volunteering to serve, freed up a service member whose wife was to give birth.
I pray that Nutter J. Wimbrow is resting in eternal peace.
I pray that Nutter J. Wimbrow is resting in eternal peace.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you my friend and brother-in-arms, brother-in-Christ SSG Jimmy Cernich for making us aware that you remember each soldier who was killed in your unit.
I pray they each are resting in eternal peace.
I pray they each are resting in eternal peace.
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This is my mom's older brother, Clifford M. Reed. He was captured on Wake Island on 23 Dec. 1941 as a gunner on a 3-inch cannon. He survived 44 months as a POW, including trips aboard "hell ships" from Wake to Shanghai and Shanghai to Hokkaido in Japan as well as slave labor in coal mines in China and Japan, and an emergency appendectomy and hernia surgery--both without anaesthesia! The photo was taken in Los Angeles in Oct. '45. He died in 2002 at the age of 83.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
SSG Tom Wilson and Sgt. Mary Wilson, my dad's older brother and sister, at March Field, Calif., in 1943. Tom shipped out for England and served as a P-47 crew chief in England, France and Belgium with the Ninth Air Force. Mary was a driver and was killed at March Field in Jan. '45 in a headon collision with an avgas tanker truck. Tom lived to age 99 and died in Santa Barbara, Calif. in 2007.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you my friend and brother-in-arms, brother-in-Christ MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for making us aware that you are honoring your maternal uncle "Clifford M. Reed' who 'was captured on Wake Island on 23 Dec. 1941 as a gunner on a 3-inch cannon. He survived 44 months as a POW, including trips aboard "hell ships" from Wake to Shanghai and Shanghai to Hokkaido in Japan as well as slave labor in coal mines in China and Japan, and an emergency appendectomy and hernia surgery--both without anesthesia!'
I hope and pray that Clifford M. Reed is resting in eternal peace.
FYI Maj Robert Thornton 1LT (Anonymous) Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM
I hope and pray that Clifford M. Reed is resting in eternal peace.
FYI Maj Robert Thornton 1LT (Anonymous) Kim Bolen RN CCM ACM
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
This is my dad, Donald E. Wilson, Sr. He enlisted in late 1940 and went to OCS, but washed out. He trained in medical admin and deployed to the Cook Islands in the late summer of '43. There he became SGM of the hospital on Aitutaki. Within six months he was stricken with a mosquito-borne disease called filariasis. It presents as a form of elephantasis, a painful, ugly, debilitating disease affecting the lower legs, genitals and breasts.
Dad was hospitalized and stabilized on Aitutaki, then evacuated stateside and medically discharged in the early summer of '44. Residuals from the disease plagued him for most of his adult life and contributed to his demise at age 67 in 1988.
Dad was hospitalized and stabilized on Aitutaki, then evacuated stateside and medically discharged in the early summer of '44. Residuals from the disease plagued him for most of his adult life and contributed to his demise at age 67 in 1988.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you my friend and brother-in-Christ MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. for posting a before picture of your dad Donald E. Wilson, Sr. and the after image displaying his debilitating disease 'called filariasis. It presents as a form of elephantasis, a painful, ugly, debilitating disease affecting the lower legs, genitals and breasts.'
I hope and pray that Clifford M. Reed is resting in eternal peace.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Tom Burns SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Marty Hogan LTC Greg Henning Lt Col Charlie Brown
I hope and pray that Clifford M. Reed is resting in eternal peace.
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs SMSgt Tom Burns SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Maj Marty Hogan LTC Greg Henning Lt Col Charlie Brown
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