Our Military Salute to our classmates, family and friends who have served or are now serving their country -- God Bless America - God Bless our Military
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We will never forget
Submitted by Teddie Jordan and Fran (Webster) Jordan
Seaman 1st. Class, Ernest Mitchell Webster, 1925-2000
U. S. Navy, WWII
Battle Star, Presidential Citation, Purple Heart
Lt. Colonel (Ret.), Theodore Fiquet Jordan Sr., 1906-1965
U.S. Army. WWII
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Submitted by Paige Talley Carter
Family who served:
Grandfather: H. Shanks - Navy - WWI; Father: G. Talley - Air Force WWII;
Husband: T. Thomasson - National Guard - Viet Nam: Son: T. Thomasson - Army Gulf War
The following photgraphs were taken by (and of) my Dad (George R. Talley) He was stationed with the Army Air Force in India and then on Tinian Island.
INDIA
"The team should have implicit confidence in the captain's decisions." Lord Mountbatten
I don't know which General Ramsey or Colonel Sullivan are, but evidently important on this day.
TINIAN ISLAND
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/tinian.htm
Daddy was in communications. The tent was the "office".
GULF WAR - IRAQ
My son Tim Thomasson - Army Infantry
Submitted by Jackie Crowe Finch - my son, my dad and my uncle
My Son, Doug Reed
Force Recon - US Marine Corp
On USS Bataan heading for Kuwait
Doug - back row - middle
Doug - First group into Iraq - March 2003
Only communication was through embedded reporters on TV
Invasion of Iraq - March 26, 2003
Doug on right - Marine sniper -- guy on left was his spotter. Iraq 2003
Doug - Iraq, 2003. A little humor - these packages and mail were backlogged from home. He should have received them in Kuwait while he was waiting to go into Iraq. He was in Kuwait 1 month and never received any packages or mail from home because of a delivery mixup. These were delivered to him in Iraq in the middle of the war - all in one day. This is when they were sleeping on the ground, no roof over their heads, and obviously no storage room!
Invasion of Iraq - 2003 - Downfall of Saddam Hussein
Doug on far right
Doug on left
Why We Are HERE
Pray for our troops and families
My dad was also a Marine - served in WWII
Walter Hugh (Jack) Crowe
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Stationed in LaJolla, CA - the war ended before he was sent overseas
My Dad's Brother, my uncle, William Earl Crowe also served in the Marines during WWII and was a Lt. Colonel when he lost his life in air crash - April 1, 1960
Submitted by Doug Romans - his Uncle, Clarence Hiller - Air Force
I wanted to post a memorium to my uncle, Clarence Hiller, who was killed in WWII 67 years ago over the North Sea on this VERY DAY AND DATE of SATURDAY July 17th 1943 on a B-17 raid to the submarine pens in Hamburg, Germany. Through my research I have discovered that his plane was the ONLY ONE lost from his Bomb Group (the 94th) and the ONLY one of TWO B17's lost from the entire 8th Air Force located in all of England. His plane and crew also had the dubious distinction of being the VERY FIRST plane to be lost from his Bomb Group with absolutely no traces ever found or recoverd on their third mission. Luckily, I also found out the German Luftwaffe fighter's pilot's name who shot his plane down was one Erwin Claussen who was himself KIA later while attacking other B-17's.
Bless his soul plus all the others, before and after, who have given the ultimate sacrifice to our freedom.
