Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Operation Red Wings 06/28/2005
Honoring
Navy SEALs and US Army Night Stalkers who selflessly sacrificed their lives eleven years
ago today in Afghanistan during Operation Red Wings for our great
Country. Please help me honor them so that they are not forgotten (credit: Facebook group: SEAL of Honor)
Daniel Healey
Michael Murphy
Shane Patton
Matt Axelton
Jacques Fontan
US Army Stephen Reich
Jeffrey Taylor
Danny Dietz
Shamus Goare
Corey Goodnature
Kip Jacoby
Jeffrey Lucas
Michael McGreevy
Marcus Muralles
Michael Russell
Chris Scherkenbach
James Suh
Michael Murphy
Chris Scherkenbach
James Suh
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Eugene Jacques Bullard, WWI - French, Am. expatriot
This is too cool not to share:
Do you know who this is a photo of? Chances are you don’t, but don’t feel bad because probably not one American in one million does, and that is a National tragedy. His name is Eugene Jacques Bullard, and he is the first African-American fighter pilot in history. But he is also much more then that: He’s also a national hero, and his story is so incredible that I bet if you wrote a movie script based on it Hollywood would reject it as being too far-fetched.
Bullard was an expat living in France, and when World War 1 broke out he joined the French Infantry. He was seriously wounded, and France awarded him the Croix de Guerre and Medaille Militaire. In 1916 he joined the French air service and he first trained as a gunner but later he trained as a pilot. When American pilots volunteered to help France and formed the famous Lafayette Escadrille, he asked to join but by the time he became a qualified pilot they were no longer accepting new recruits, so he joined the Lafayette Flying Corps instead. He served with French flying units and he completed 20 combat missions.
When the United States finally joined the war, Bullard was the only member of the Escadrille or the French Flying Corps who was NOT invited to join the US Air Service. The reason? At that time the Air Service only accepted white men.
Now here is the part that almost sounds like a sequel to ‘Casablanca’: After WWI Bullard became a jazz musician in Paris and he eventually owned a nightclub called ‘L’Escadrille’. When the Germans invaded France and conquered it in WW2, his Club, and Bullard, became hugely popular with German officers, but what they DIDN’T know was that Bullard, who spoke fluent German, was actually working for the Free French as a spy. He eventually joined a French infantry unit, but he was badly wounded and had to leave the service.
By the end of the war, Bullard had become a national hero in France, but he later moved back to the U.S. where he was of course completely unknown. Practically no one in the United States was aware of it when, in 1959, the French government named him a national Chevalier, or Knight.
In 1960, the President of France, Charles DeGaulle, paid a state visit to the United States and when he arrived he said that one of the first things he wanted to do was to meet Bullard. That sent the White House staff scrambling because most of them, of course, had never even heard of him. They finally located him in New York City, and DeGaulle traveled there to meet him personally. At the time, Eugene Bullard was working as … An elevator operator.
Not long after Eugene Bullard met with the President of France, he passed away, and today very, very few Americans, and especially African-Americans, even know who he is. But, now YOU do, don’t you? And I hope you’ll be able to find opportunities to tell other people about this great American hero that probably only 1 American in 1 Million has ever heard of.
Friday, June 24, 2016
Raymond Hedgecock, US Army, Viet Nam
Raymond Hedgecock, US Army, Viet Nam 04/2016
with niece Donna Zarmony
Thank you, sir, for your service. Our country did you wrong for too long.
A Hero - Semper Fi
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/06/15/marine-vet-hailed-hero-helping-dozens-escape-orlando-shooting.html
Imran Yousuf, a 24-year-old Hindu and former Marine
Imran Yousuf, a 24-year-old Hindu and former Marine
US Army Sgt. Javier Sanchez Jr
Much respect, thank you for your ultimate sacrifice
Honoring
Army Sgt. Javier Sanchez Jr. who selflessly sacrificed his life three
years ago today (06/24/16) in Afghanistan for our great Country. Please help me
honor him so that he is not forgotten.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Army Reserve Captain Killed in Nightclub Attack
Army Reserve Captain one of those killed in the Pulse nightclub attack in Orlando, Florida. Thank you for your service, sir.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/06/14/army-reserve-captain-killed-in-mass-shooting-orlando-nightclub.html?ESRC=marine_160614.nl
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/06/14/army-reserve-captain-killed-in-mass-shooting-orlando-nightclub.html?ESRC=marine_160614.nl
Orlando, Fl
In the midst of chaos - Marines step up and we send sympathy and prayers to all the families and friends of those killed in the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fl and thank the Army Reserve Captain we lost among them for his service.
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Pickett's Mill Battlefield, Dallas, GA
They described this as a large shotgun. Two of these were position at the top of a hill coming out of a ravine. They devastated the Union charge.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Veteran Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (né Charles Buchinsky) (1921-2003) U.S. Army Air Force 1943-45 WW II. He enlisted and served as an aircraft gunner in the 760th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, and in 1945 as a Superfortress crewman with the 39th Bombardment Group based on Guam. He was assigned to a B-29 bomber. He flew on 25 missions & was awarded a Purple Heart for wounds received during his service. Most remembered for his roles in The Dirty Dozen and Death Wish.
Monday, May 30, 2016
Memorial - North Fork, California
http://sierranewsonline.com/the-torch-is-passed-the-heroes-honored/
The torch passes on - thank you to the Lions Club!
The torch passes on - thank you to the Lions Club!
Memorial Day, Years Past
In years past my sister and I served with the Marine Corps League in the mountains of California. On Memorial Day we would be up early, in uniform and meet with several of the men and women who would be traveling to several graveyards in the mountains to hold military honors with bugle and rifle volley. VFW members would read the solemn remembrance speaches and would lay flowers at a grave of a veteran and our chaplain would lead prayers.
Miss you, guys
in khaki and blues - 2007
in white and blue - 2011 (uniform change - me, I prefer the khaki)
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