On this Memorial Day I thought I’d start a thread giving us a chance to honor and remember our family members who died defending our freedom. 
 

If you choose, you can honor them by saying their name, where and when they gave their...

Last Full Measure of Devotion

 

Uncle Jim...SSGT, 101st Airborne Div. Normandy France... June 6, 1944

 

Central region, Middle East, November 13, 1995.

A member of our team, Sergeant First Class David Warrell, Special Forces Weapons Sergeant from Fayetteville, North Carolina. He is remembered on the wall at the Special Operations Memorial, MacDill AFB.
You are not forgotten brother.

My Uncle, Richard Smith

 

https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/s/s045.htm

 

Lance Corporal Roy M. Wheat, 7th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, August 11, 1967, Quang Nam Province, ROV, 2nd cousin (and my namesake)

 

https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/roy-m-wheat

Both my grandfathers served in WW II. One marine aboard the USS Essex, one army paratrooper at Normandy. 
 

It’s interesting to me now because growing up we all had that elementary school report to do where we called our grandparents and interviewed them about the war. Now I have students that complain about how hard it is to find someone.