Thank you to all those that have given the ultimate sacrifice for all of us to enjoy the freedoms we enjoy.

In my and my husband's family, we know full well the sacrifice:

Civil War
James DeMore - husbands gggrandfather
Jacob Shover - my gggrandfather
Timothy Ridgeway - husbands gggrand uncle

WWI
William Neumann, Jr - my grandmother's cousin (5 days before the Armistice)

WWII
Thomas A DeMore - my husband's uncle and namesake (buried Normandy-American Cemetery)

Vietnam
Kenneth E DeMore, Jr - husband's 2nd cousin

Thank you to one and all, for the ultimate sacrifice.

Interesting Mom. I can tell that someone in your family likes genealogy...my family does as well.

My Mother had a relative (T.C. Harwell) that was one of the first....if not the first....killed at Shiloh. A fellow soldier wrote his parents, telling them, the first shot he heard, he saw T.C. reaching for his head as he fell.

My father had relatives that died in the civil war on both sides.
In the wars since, our families have been fortunate. Several purple hearts, but no deaths.

We owe it to them to remember.

(05-26-2014 11:22 PM)Fanof49ASU Wrote:  Interesting Mom. I can tell that someone in your family likes genealogy...my family does as well.

My Mother had a relative (T.C. Harwell) that was one of the first....if not the first....killed at Shiloh. A fellow soldier wrote his parents, telling them, the first shot he heard, he saw T.C. reaching for his head as he fell.

My father had relatives that died in the civil war on both sides.
In the wars since, our families have been fortunate. Several purple hearts, but no deaths.

We owe it to them to remember.

That would be me

(05-26-2014 09:30 PM)CatMom Wrote:  WWII
Thomas A DeMore - my husband's uncle and namesake (buried Normandy-American Cemetery)

I wish that you would have posted this yesterday.....my girlfriend has been in Paris for the past week, and went to Normandy today, for the Memorial day events. I could have had her look for his marker and get a pic. :(

Years ago my FIL sent for his information and passed it down to us. We have a huge map with the grave location marked...along with this inset:


My husband's aunt is the only family member to have ever visited there. My FIL was in the Navy/Pacific.

I'm glad you have that.

I tried to post a couple of pics of Normandy from today....but me, or my iPad doesn't do pics well. One of us is too old.

I'll post them tomorrow.

I made it back. I medevac'd too many who didn't (Operation Iraqi Freedom). This is a very melancholy holiday for me... not a celebration. If you've ever loaded (with full military honors) a 22 year old Airman 1st Class' remains onto a C-17 in an aluminum box in a hostile fire zone, filled with her body and ice you'd know what I mean. This day is about HER, not ME (or any others of us who made it back home alive).

GOD BLESS AMERICA.

In grateful memory of:

Samuel Wilson Beckett CSA [my Great-Grandfather] KIA Battle of Atlanta
Robert Rodney Beckett USMC [First Cousin] KIA Battle of Java Sea, USS Houston
Lee Roy Beckett USA [Uncle] WW I
Charlie M. Beckett USA [Father] WW II
William W. Beckett USN [First Cousin] WW II
Herbert Roane USN [Uncle] WW II
Truman Roane USAAF [Uncle] WW II
Joseph Dickinson USAAF [Step Father] WW II
William Pierce USCG [Uncle] WW II

With gratitude and heartfelt thanks to:

Sidney D. Beckett USA [First Cousin] Korea
William G. Beckett USA [Second Cousin] Viet Nam
Tom Collins USN [Second Cousin] Viet Nam
Paul Collins USN [Second Cousin] Viet Nam
Alexander Beckett USA [Son] Operation Iraqi Freedom]

And to all others known and unknown to me, who have served honorably in war or peace in the US armed forces to preserve our freedoms.

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CajunNation, thanks for starting this thread. I myself, am a Viet Nam Veteran(1st Field Force VN, Field Artillery), but to this day I am still in awe of the World War II Veterans who sacrificed so much for our country, those that never made it back, those that have passed on, and those who are still with us. Never, ever forget what they did for all of us. Especially my uncles who served in WWII:

Uncle Tony (US Army, Germany)
Uncle Al (US Army, Egypt)
Uncle Mick (US Army, Germany under Patton)
Uncle Charles (US Navy, South Pacific)
Uncle Charlie (US Marines)

And to Fanof49ASU for the Normandy pictures. I visited Normandy three years ago. With tears in their eyes, the French people in those towns still thank us (American tourists) for what we(our country) did for them.

"For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a taste the protected will never know."

(05-27-2014 12:33 PM)Green Menace Wrote:  CajunNation, thanks for starting this thread. ..

Thank you for your service to our country.

This country is eternally in debt to our great veterans.