I started riding horses in summer of 1965 and I was hooked. I learned some techniques that allowed me to become a good horseman. One of the principles at the core of my training methods is to make the right choice for the horse easy and the wrong choice uncomfortable but not unbearable. I was an athlete in high school, running cross-country and track, so I was pretty fit when I entered the Marine Corps. The regimentation of boot camp…..
Our Mother was born in Loving, New Mexico in 1930. She met our father who was born in Mexico and got married there where 6 of us kids were born in Mexico. Our oldest brother Valente joined the Army and another brother joined the Navy. Our sister served too. I Joined the Marines and another brother served in the Air Force. In 1955 our parents decided to bring us back to United States where all six of us were born…..
I feel very honored to meet people who have a passion for history and really feel we owe our veterans a lot. I come from a military Dutch family. My grandfather fought the Germans as a company commander in May 1940 until Holland had to surrender. I have lots and lots of letters written in that period and also pictures. My grandfather became one of the founders of the OD (Ordedienst), a big Dutch resistance group existing of former Dutch…..
LT. Walter J. Gunter, Jr. was Jump Master 61, 101st Airborne, 506th PIR Company D, XO of Dog Co, and was killed in action in St Mere Eglise. After his jump, he became caught in a tree. A machine gunner shot him from The Church Steeple about 40 minutes before John Steele and the 82nd arrived. He is buried at the American Cemetery Colleville sur Mer, in Normandy France. Our family has over 200 letters from Walter beginning with his…..
My experience living in the Republic of the Philippine’s stationed at Clark Air Base was something I have tried to forget. I attended the veteran’s luncheon with guest speaker and author Jenny Lasala on June 8, 2016 at the Farmington Town Hall in New York. It was fantastic and it awakened many of my experiences that I had as a military wife. Jenny asked me to share my story. The day we arrived on May 1,1973; the temperature was 126…..
I was warned not to talk about the mission by the CIA. We were inside Laos on a mission. I supplied the ammunition from camp Evans and was in HqCo.3/187th INF Rakkasans, the same unit that took Hamburger Hill. I got there in August 1970, where the Green Berets trained us about counter insurgency and sapper. They hand picked about 20 of us from this unit and made us Green Berets. We had to pledge to keep everything secret. The…..
I was with the USN March 1961 to March 1983, E6-AO1 and was deployed VA-152 Det ZULU Bien Hoa AB RVN 1964, VA-125/VA-145/VA-165/CV-34/CV-43/CV-61, and a Navy Recruiter in North Hollywood, California. I recall one event while at Bien Hoa AB, RVN (1964), with the USAF 34th Tactical Group. They received their first A-1E Skyraiders in-country (12). We had 18 A-1H/J models. The day they arrived, my CO got a call from the USAF stating that they needed “a little help”…..
Robert “Bob” Williams, Petty Officer 3rd Class Quartermaster US Navy Charles Williams, 1st LT US Army Air Corps, 526th Fighter Bomber Sqdrn, 86th Fighter Bomber Group. Robert serve on the LST 224 Ship as a Quartermaster in the Asiatic Pacific Campaign in 3 different campaigns. One of the was in Iwo Jima, as they arrived in Iwo Jima they were told about the 1st Flag being stood up. He got to watch from his ship with binoculars the original Iwo…..
I had a lonely childhood and was separated from most of my siblings into the harsh life in a Catholic orphanage in Virginia. My brother and I were unceremoniously dumped in the orphanage by our drunken and war-traumatized father and quickly learned the realities of life. I was a “malcontent renegade” in the eyes of the nuns, because I fought for the dignity of my brother and myself. We were later returned to our father who had dismissed and abandoned…..
In Poland, my mother always talked about her uncle who lived in America. He was her father’s youngest brother. Ludwig Talasiewicz was born to Gershon and Shoshana. He left Poland on his own when he was a young boy and arrived in New York on January 14, 1914 on the steamship ‘St Louis’ from London. Under the name of Louis Tolosewitz, he joined the American army and fought what I know must be World War II where he received a…..
