Remembering The Fallen

[+Erik 1,812]

A silent tribute to all who have fallen in service of our country because we will never forget.

 

You may post images, bios, links to articles for lost friends and family. Please do not reply to posts as all replies will be removed.

 

 

 

Lance Cpl. Eric L. Ward

Hometown: Redmond, Washington, U.S.

Age: 19

Died: Feb, 21, 2010

Unit: Marines, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.

Incident: Died while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.

[+Dave 2,322]

LTC Daniel E. Holland

 

Hometown: San Antonio, Texas

Age: 43

Died: May, 18, 2006

Unit: 352nd Civil Affairs Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Incident: Killed in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV during combat operations.

 

He was my wifes commander for many years and a good friend to our family. He was there when my mother took her life back in 2003. He was their when our twins were born and was Sheila's biggest supporter in her career. He is missed dearly.

 

RIP sir.

[UK_Widowmaker 571]

Corporal Daryn Roy from Dipton, near Stanley, County Durham

One of several North East Soldiers Killed in Helmand Province so far this year

[+Dave 2,322]

PFC Juan Garza

 

Hometown: Temperance, Mich

Age: 20

Died: April 8, 2003

Unit: 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, Calif

Incident: Garza was killed by a sniper as he patrolled an airport in Baghdad

[+pcpilot 181]

Army Spc. Ramon C. Ojeda

 

 

-Bronze Star

-Purple Heart

 

When his convoy was attacked, he stayed at his MG position in his vehicle and directed fire at the enemy allowing other members of his convoy who had been cutoff by the enemy attack to fall back and re-group. Once the members were re-united, he continued his fire until felled by enemy return fire.

 

Ojeda, a member of the Army's 84th Engineer Battalion, 25th Infantry Division, Died on May 1, 2004 when his convoy was attacked in Al Amarah in southeast Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.

"He was a good boy … my only boy … he never gave anyone any trouble … and he loved to make people laugh," said his father Joaquin Ojeda on Tuesday.

Ojeda, who lives in Santa Ysabel, said he knows his son "died for the cause that he thought was correct." Ojeda joined the Army at 17, his father said, and was serving his second tour of duty.

"He believed in what he was doing," the senior Ojeda said during a telephone interview. "He wanted everyone to have the freedom we have."

Ojeda leaves behind a wife and young son, Joaquin Ojeda said. The soldier's wife, Lesliee Ojeda, is also in the Army and is serving in Iraq, he said. She will accompany his body on a flight home, Ojeda said. No services have been arranged yet, he said. He has two older sisters who also grew up in Ramona, their father said.

School officials said the soldier was a quiet, hardworking member of the class of 1999 at Ramona and Montecito high schools in Ramona.

"He was a real nice young man, funny, not one of the kids who stood out, just a real good kid that worked hard at whatever he did," said Ramona High School history teacher and wrestling coach Steven Koch, who coached Ojeda for three years.

"One of the things I always tell my students is the people who are most heroic are ordinary people who wind up doing extraordinary things," Koch said. "He was one of those heroes."

 

Fallen Heroes memorial message...

"To the Ojeda family, My deepest and sincerest condolences. I will always remeber Ramon as I taught in his sabbath school class at church. He was quiet but was quick to smile or laugh. When he asked a question, it was always a good one I had to think about, lol. I'll never forget the day him and some freinds walked up to me and asked me about military service. I told them it was good for a young man to experiance and get a chance to see the world and meet new folks. All I can think of since his loss is those words I said. I comfort myself because I know he was proud of his militry service and I know he did a good job and it was what he wanted to do. I wish I coulda stayed for his funeral but I stopped by to see his casket at the service. I said a prayer for him and his family, then I gave him my best salute. I will always remember Ramon and will always be proud of him. On Jesus return, we will all be re-united again...till then little bro'."

Jeff Gerald

 

[+Gepard 11,303]

Oberfeldwebel Florian Pauli

 

Sanitätsfeldwebel (medical aid)

 

Fallschirmjägerbatallion 313

 

killed by suicid bomber 7. Oktober near Pol-E-Khumri (Afghanistan)

 

14 of his comrades were woundet

 

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MARINE STAFF SERGEANT JAMES W. CAWLEY, 41, LAYTON, UTAH

 

 

From: James

 

TO: Randy & Julie Hanson

 

Subject: Just a few notes

 

Date: Tuesday, 18 Feb 2003

 

Julie, First I want to thank you and Randy for all the help you have been to Miyuki. It is a relief to me to have family nearby that she can rely on. You guys have been so good in opening up your house to us and I admire the way you take care of Dad and keep the Family going. I regret that our Family is not as close as it could be since Mom passed on.

 

I am sure I'll be fine and I don't plan on getting killed but you never know so just in case I don't come back I have just a few things I need to pass on so here goes.

 

First, please make sure Miyuki is assisted with anything she needs. The Marine Corps will take care of most of the arrangements. The point of contact is PWST (Peacetime Wartime Support Team) Officer Captain Daugherty at the Inspector/Instructor Staff at the Marine Corps Reserve Center at Fort Douglas. Also, you can contact Major Meyers or 1st Sgt. Byrd. Please be there with Miyuki to help her with any questions. They will explain all her benefits. She and the kids will get Social Security, my Servicemen's Group Life Insurance, a death gratuity, and assistance in burial. Make sure she gets to take advantage of all that she's entitled to. I hopefully will be able to get more info on all the benefits and I will mail it to you.

 

I wish to be placed in the Roy cemetery near Mom and Dad. The military will help defray a lot of the cost of burial except the plot I believe. I would like full Military honors, which the Marine Corps should provide, but I would like my good friends on the Salt Lake Police Dept SWAT Team to be involved also.... The things I would like at the service is that "God Be With You Til We Meet Again" be played as well as "Hymn to the Fallen" from Saving Private Ryan by John Williams. I would also like the Cawley Sisters to sing "I Need Thee Every Hour." I would also like the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling read for Little Cecil and Keiko for me. And maybe you could find someone to say a kind word or two about me.

 

I'm sure that Miyuki will at some point move back to Japan but I would hope that the Family will not lose contact with Cecil, Keiko, and Miyuki. Please write and inquire after them from time to time.

 

Well, that's about it. I hope it won't be too much trouble and I know I can count on you. Thanks for all you do.

 

Love, Your Brother Jim

 

To His Son, Cecil Age 8

 

Just a quick note preface before I start in earnest. When I wrote this you were 8, still a little boy. In 2002, I was called to active duty …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

makita miter saw | dewalt miter saw

[ONETINSOLDIER 2]

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/01/dick_winters_of_band_of_brothe.html

 

Dick Winters is gone

[+Jug 99]

Captain Tommy Zorn - F-105G Pilot on 17 September of 1971 flying his second tour in "Thuds". Classmate of mine at Auburn. I served as the Cadet Wing Vice-Commander when he was the Cadet Wing Commander. Never met a finer man. RIP

 

Captain Al Henderson - U-2R on some distant and unknown place at some unknown time. Al was a linebacker at Oklahoma and he and I used to butt heads playing flag football with our student flights. He was a good man, father, and patriot. RIP

 

There are more, but these weigh heavy on my heart this year.

 

God bless all of those who serve. Some gave some, and some gave all. Doesn't get any better.

[Capitaine Vengeur 263]

Bloody Bastille Day !

 

Tomorrow was our national day, with festivities and usual military parades expected. And there we learnt that 5 of our military had been killed by a kamikaze explosion the previous day while protecting an Afghan meeting (one civilian was also killed), and that a sixth one had been shot dead at an Afghan checkpoint on 14. This happened a few days after the progressive withdrawal from A-stan has been mentionned (oncoming elections , of course). Many of the parading units on this Bastille Day had some tours of duty in A-stan, had worked with the impacted units in the same area (Kapisa), and the emotion was real. This brings to 70 the number of French KIA (17 this year, our most expensive one). Beyond numbers, they had names, stories and families, and here are the names of the five fallen on 13. All of them were seasoned soldiers who had already served several times overseas.

 

1. Lieutenant Thomas Gauvin, 27, 1er RCP (paratroops) - Top of his year at St-Cyr in 2005 - Central African Republic (2010)
2. Adjudant Laurent Marsol, 35, 1er RCP - Gabon (2002 and 2003), Central African Republic (2003 and 2008), Kosovo (2004 and 2005), Chad (2006), Afghanistan (2008 and 2009)
3. Adjudant Emmanuel Techer, 38, 17e RGP (paratroops engineers) - Chad (1994 and 2008), former Yugoslavia (1995 and 1996), Senegal (1998), Kosovo (1998), New Caledonia (2004)
4. Adjudant Jean-Marc Guéniat, 37, 17e RGP - Central African Republic (1995 and 2008), former Yugoslavia (1995 and 1997), New Caledonia (2002), Ivory Coast (2006) - Father of two
5. Caporal-chef Sébastien Vermeille, 30, SIRPA (army news agency) - Afghanistan (2003), Ivory Coast, Djibouti, New Caledonia, Kosovo, Chad

 

 

 

[+daddyairplanes 10,243]

SPC Lucas Elliot, USAR

died in Iraq 15 July 2011

 

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9871376/

 

Just saw this in the news this evening. His mother is a volunteer with my unit and he was assigned to one of my sister units. Prayers for his family in the days to come...

[Derk 265]

 

On Christmas Day 1941 the RNN submarine Hr. MS K XVI was sunk in the South Chinese Sea with the loss of all 36 crewmembers.

Mrs Katja Boonstra, daughter of of one of the crew has led several expeditions in 2003 and 2004 in order to locate the wreck, but they were unsuccesfull.

In the process she got in touch a couple of years ago with the son of the commanding officer of the Japanes sub that torpedoed the K XVI. They became good friends and they developed a lot of activities since then. They went to Ireland and got in contact with the commander of the British sumarine that torpedoed the Japanese sub later in the war and he joined them. Together they gave lectures and presentations all over the world on the subject of war and peace and former enemies.

Today, after almost 70 years, the wreck of K XVI was found....... The circle is closed now, the members of 36 families now know where their loved ones are and the world has another seamans grave .....

 

Rest in peace

[+Jug 99]

Capt Tommy Zorn, USAF

Pilot F-105G

Died 17 Sept 1972

 

Capt Al Henderson

Pilot U-2R

Died (location and date undisclosed)

[exhausted 55]

U.S. forces in Afghanistan were moving forward Monday following a bold attack on Camp Bastion that killed two Marines, including the commanding officer of a Harrier squadron, wounded nine other U.S. personnel and destroyed six Harrier jump jets.

Lt. Col. Christopher Raible, 40, and Sgt. Bradley Atwell, 27, were killed after 15 insurgents armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests breached the perimeter of Bastion about 10 p.m. Friday. Raible served as the commanding officer of Marine Attack Squadron 211, and Atwell was assigned to Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13. Both units are out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz.

 

The attack significantly damaged two additional AV-8B Harriers, each worth about $24 million, and destroyed three refueling stations, U.S. military officials said in a statement released Saturday. Six soft-skin aircraft hangars also were damaged.

 

 

 

The Sgt was from MALS-13, my fmr. squadron. The LtCol was from VMA-211, the Avengers.

 

I left the MALS in January and I take this very personally. I will remember them tonight as I take a shot for them.

 

Semper Fidelis, Marines.

 

RIP

Edited September 18, 2012 by exhausted

[WACO 2]

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x1225370836/Body-of-Marine-Sgt-Daniel-Price-arrives-in-Holland

 

This happened over the summer but I was unaware of this topic in the forums until now.

I did not know him or his family. But what I do know is he served with distinction. A Marine and a husband.

 

The annoying Westboro Baptist nimrods TRIED soiling the funeral of Gunnery Sgt. Price. Thankfully our entire town turned out to honor him.

[MAKO69 186]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Fox

[+pcpilot 181]

My wifes' father passed away recently. I thought I would add a tribute to him here as he honored me by calling me his friend...

Corporal Henry Stafford Northcott 15th Scottish Infantry, British army 1941-46

Birth: Sep. 7, 1922
Wood Green
Greater London, England
Death: Oct. 9, 2012
Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada


Henry was an swimmer athlete as a youth winning many awards. As a young man he fought Hitler's armies in North Africa and Europe winning a letter of commendation from Gen. B. Montgomery along with many medals. He was also wounded in action in the hedgerows of Normandy. 10 years after the war he moved his family to Canada seeking a better life for them. He and his family crossed the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth to the new world. In Vancouver where they finally settled, he took work as a civil engineer helping to build Canada and Vancouver. In retirement, he loved woodworking, stone carving, and his little shop in his garage. He was dangerous in chess and loved a good crossword puzzle. Just as he bravely faced the enemy on the field of battle, Henry fought doggedly against cancer for four years. He died from cancer one month after his 90th birthday. He left behind a wife of 65 years, Mary, and three lovely daughters whom he loved with all his gentle heart. His legacy will forever be a good family who loves each other after his example.

Edited September 22, 2013 by pcpilot

[DammitCarl 0]

On March 12th, 2006 in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan, an IED took the lives of four soldiers of A Co., 391st Engineer Battalion, Army Reserves.

 

Staff Sergeant Joe "Ray-Ray," Ray, Seargeant Kevin Akins (heard him called "Big Ache," more than once), Sgt. Anton Heitt (medic and all-around great person), and Specialist Joshua Hill (riding in the gunner slot on top of the HUMVEE and I put him there when they asked for volunteers from my section; the sins and damnations of command I suppose). All gone in a flash.

 

Essayons, my brothers.

 

Always remembered. Never forgotten.

[+Gepard 11,303]

May 4th 2013. The most bloody day for ISAF at AFG in 2013.

6 US boys and one german soldier died.

[531Ghost 15]

Captain Aaron Blanchard.  He started life in the Marines as a T700 Engine Mech.  Got his degree and went to fly AH64s in the Army.

 

[Rabid 0]

While we hoist our drinks of choice to remember our fallen, may I offer this song in their honor: