www.JennyLasala.com As I wrap up the finishing touches on my next book and 5th publication as a Vietnam Veteran Tribute in the book NEVER FORGOTTEN, The Vietnam Veteran Fifty Years Later, I want to extend a personal thank you and gratitude to all of the veterans who have shared their stories.By opening up and telling your stories, you will be helping many in the process. “What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from…..
An American G.I. tends to the wounds of a young German soldier while waiting for the arrival of a medic in 1944… “Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they’ve been given.” ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game We Honor & Remember History www.JennyLasala.com PHOTO/TEXT SOURCE: History In Pictures
“This picture was part of the WWW II letters sent to my mother from her brother Troy U. Gilley, 506/101 F Co (ETO) and her brother-in-law, Arthur Shelby (2-E-10) (PTO). I know very little about Art Shelby, except he was Marine and trained in demolition during his basic training and saw action in the PTO. The men in the picture could represent either theater of War. The men in the picture are unknown to me. Maybe, just maybe someone will…..
Vietnam, I was there in 1968/69. This is me in a guard tower, M-16 in hand keeping a look out for V.C. The Air Force Security police were the first Air Force Combat veterans with boots on the ground in any war. There is a detailed display of this at Wright Patterson AFB, in Fairborn Ohio. It’s worth a visit. I was in the 35th Combat Support Group, Phan Rang AFB, Feb 1968>69. We were hit with rockets the first…..
My name is Allan W. Howerton. I am a WWII Veteran. I was a draftee through the Selective Service System and served with the U.S. Army, Company K, 335th Infantry, 84th Division between February 1943 to January 1946 in the U.S. and Europe. I went through basic training and became a medic, Cadet in the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), and rifleman, messenger, and company communications sergeant. My father served in the U.S. Navy as a fireman on a destroyer…..
My name is Tristan Grant Baker. I served with the US Army B.CO 2/502 BCT 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION AND B.CO 2-23 4TH SBCT 2ND ID, spending nine years in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most of my career was with the 101st Airborne in the 502nd and there is nothing like it on earth. I was a squad and fire team leader My dad and uncles also served during the Gulf War but spoke very little about it. I enlisted because I…..
I served with the U.S Army HHD 43srd Sig Bn. and the 1st Sig Bg. My basic training was in FT Lenard Wood, Missouri in 1968 with Ait in Fort Knox Kentucky. I was a permanent Party Mechanic F-4-1 Armor unit, deployed to Viet Nam in October 1969. I joined at 17 years old. My Dad and all of my uncles served WWII and Korea. I heard a few stories from them. This picture is of my dad in his…..
My name is Roger W. Hancock. I have not served. However, I am the son and nephew of veterans who served during WWII and one poet who knows to whom he owes, first to God then to those who serve for liberty. My father Kenneth Alonzo Hancock served in the Army Air Corp (That was the U.S. Air Force before the U.S. had an “Air Force”). He did not fly but maintained the planes that defended our liberty. He would…..
Karen Wright, a USAF Veteran and the State Director of Honor and Remember – New York Chapter http://HonorandRemember.org/ received this beautiful certificate and flag signed by the secretary of defense and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff from the DOD. The Department of Defense Vietnam War Commemoration recognizes Honor and Remember of NY as a commemorative partner now and awarded her in recognition for her willingness to assist and support a grateful nation in thanking and honoring our Vietnam…..
My name is Michael Lee Womack and I served in the United States Army from the 30th of June 2005 to the 27 of May 2014. When I first joined the army I enlisted right after high school as a 19 Delta Cavalry Scout at the age of eighteen. I joined the army at a time of war. I joined in order to prevent myself from spiraling down the wrong path. Instead of following the un-lawful ways of the streets…..
