Jon Michael Young, KIA, Vietnam
"Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from...
Michael Doolittle
"American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American...
Gary's 31: KIA, Vietnam
"Dead upon the field of glory, Hero fit for song and story." - John Randolph Thompson This picture is of Gary Ascher taken in Vietnam by...
Joe (Dee) Martin, KIA Vietnam
"The dead soldier's silence sings our national anthem.' - Rev. Aaron Kilbourn If you were born in the 1940s in our small town, there...
Welcome Home Poem
My grandson, Keaton, has been in swimming lessons with a boy named Gunner for three years. It's just been the two of them in this...
Mike Miner, KIA Vietnam
" The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." -Benjamin Disraeli, English politician...
Alfred Quiroz, KIA Vietnam
"There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country." - Nick Lampson Some called him Fred, some called him Alfred, some...
Ricky Lee, country singer
I worked at the Vet's Museum Thursday as a sub docent and this fellow walked in with a group of people. After a quick tour, and after I...
Bobby Eagleson, Vietnam KIA
"The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Henry Fosdick It was his smile that Gary noticed first. They were...
Roy Davis, KIA Vietnam
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die." -Gilbert K....
