More names than last year

[baronessekat]

A flag flies outside my door today. It stands as a symbol. A symbol of a country: A country that I am not ashamed to say I am a citizen of. A symbol of struggle: struggles of men and women throughout the centuries to make their lives and the lives of their descendants better. A symbol of freedom: freedom to live, work, worship, love as I choose.

This flag flies outside of my door today because of men and women who stepped forward to stand in defense of all that that flag is a symbol of. And it is these men and women that I think about and thank.

I'm listing branches and action when I know them.

Family
Michael W. Telesco - USA, WWII and Korea
Charles W. Telesco - USA, Vietnam, and then USCGAux, Peace Time
Carrie M. DeWeese - USA, Desert Storm
Theodore Bushover - USA, WWI, USA
My couple great grandfather Polk CSA, Civil WAr
Gustave Bistoff - USA, Civil War
Charles MacEachern - USA, Peace Time
Peter MacEachern - USA, Peace Time
Tom (My mother's cousin that I'm not sure which side of the maternal family he's on but was awarded a bronze star, twice awarded the purple heart and a few other medals) - USA, Vietnam


Friends and Acquaintances
Dennis Sparks, USA
Wes Dotts, USAF
EJ Dotts, USAF
Kevin Reynolds, USMC
Paul Reynolds, USA - Iraq & Afghanistan
Michael Gaasch, USA
Heidi Gaasch, USA
Anthony Craft,USA
Richard DeWeese, USN
Michael Carroll, USAF
Michael Higgins, USA
Philip Frigm, USA
Rich Goranson, USMC
Mike Edgars, USAF
Donald Powell, USA
Jack NMI Glenn, USMC
George Yocum, USA
Andre Sinou, USMC - Gulf War
Howard Veillette - USAF

And the people who's real names I don't know but know by another name
Dicea’s Boys (Dirk, Bruce, Vells, Casey and the others), USA
Sir Wookie - Desert Storm
Minera - Afghanistan - Danish Armed Forces
Kyle - Vietnam


There are many many many more, whom I know by an alternate name or by their face, or who have served anonymously throughout the centuries. And to those above and those whom I do not know…

Thank you.

Comments

[3fgburner.livejournal.com]

Happy Vet's Day! As in,



Erich von Kleinfeld,
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Dexter Guptill, USA / Cold War

[papaboris.livejournal.com]

Thank you
Paul is USA...............Afghanistan and Iraq

[emt-hawk.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, you know more of the names.

On the minus side, the list is longer.

--H

[retiredmaj.livejournal.com]

The minus side? I pray the list never shrinks if only because it means my countrymen and women still feel the Republic is worth defending. ;)

[chamfron.livejournal.com]

Anytime :-)

[dwolfhunter.livejournal.com]

Happy to oblige

[blairya.livejournal.com]

Andrew Biel, USN

[evil-baron.livejournal.com]

Ask any Vet why, and they may not know the answer;
what ever called them, they knew they must answer.
To serve and sacrifice, it is the soldiers way;
so it is to honor then that we have Remembrance Day.
Not for glory or victory do we take this annual pause;
to praise the "protectors of peace," heroes to the cause.

Robert Edward Walter, USN Pacific Theater 1942-46
D. Edward Walter, USN Vietnam and Cold War 1974-80
Christofer R. Walter, USA Iraq 2002-present
Casey D. Walter, USAF Iraq and Afghanistan 2001-present
Darren G. Walter, USA Afghanistan 2005-present