Our lost brothers

[Howie]

When we wake tomorrow and enjoy our coffee remember the veterans who gave all, in every war, so people could be free to enjoy these moments.

Spc. 4 Robert A. Nickols
MIA Oct 26 1971
Outside NhaTrang, RVN
My friend

 

[Big Fin]

Major Robert L. Olson
US Army, Operations Officer 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery
May 12, 1965 - February 12, 2001
Patriot, husband, father, friend, classmate, teammate

 

[Straight Arrow]

Dale Haver, 1LT US Army, helicopter pilot, maintenance test pilot
11 April 1969, Binh Duong, Vietnam - helicopter crash
friend, fraternity brother, hard training - hard hitting defensive back for Montana State Bobcats, but one of the nicest guys ever to play football.

Robert V. Willett, MAJ USAF, fighter pilot
17 April 1969, North Vietnam, MIA, jet fighter aircraft shot down
friend, fraternity brother, MSU AFROTC graduate, starting center on the Montana AA 1962 State basketball championship team from Great Falls.

James P. Flagella, 1LT US Army, helicopter pilot, prior to death was recipient of Silver Star for Gallantry in retrieving a downed helicopter crew under heavy enemy fire.
4 May 1969, Bien Hoa, Vietnam, helicopter crash
friend, flight school roommate and helicopter training stick mate.

 

[LaSportsman]

Never forget. Semper Fi

Capt Brandon Barrett, USMC (Afghanistan, May 5, 2010), Infantry Officer
Capt Jason Mann, USMC (Afghanistan, July 17, 2008), Ground Intel Officer
Cpl William Cooper, USMC (Afghanistan, May 19, 2008) Scout Sniper
Cpl Derek Dixon, USMC (Iraq, June 26, 2007), Communication
Cpl Christoper Degiovine (Iraq, April 26, 2007), Amtracker
Cpl Willie Celestine, Jr., USMC (Iraq, April 26, 2007), Amtracker
Cpl Joshua Pickard, USMC (Iraq, December 19, 2006), Amtracker
LCpl Jesse Tillery, USMC (Iraq, December 2, 2006), Amtracker

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

This was my great uncles son whatever cousin that makes him to me. I was only 17 days old when this happened.

The last flight of Edwin Gorbet

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[Simeod]

SFC Scott R. Smith was killed on 17 July 2006 IRAQ by an IED. A Friend. I was one of the people that carried him up the ramp for his flight home.

SSG Justin Joseph “Ski” Galewski, SSG Brian T. Craig, SGT Jamie O. Maugans, and SFC Daniel A. Romero 15 April 2002 Afganistan by an IED. Galewski was a friend and I helped put him in the program. We finished the mission that killed then.

Too many more to list, and not enough beer.

 

[p_ham]

PFC Kham Xiong US Army
SPC Corey Stirnes US Army
SPC Christian Adams US Army
SSG Antonio Glass US Army

 

[YoungGun]

1LT Austin Shilling, US Army
Afghanistan, Jan. 19, 2017

 

[dgc1963]

Ralph J Connor Staff Sergeant US army air corp WW11
Served in Phillipeans a good man, my father

 

[tarheel]

Pvt Benjamin Tyner CSA
During the Richmond Campaign
Richmond, VA 1862
My GGGrandfather


Pfc Ellis Tyner, USA
Killed in the trenches of France during WWI
My Greatuncle


Tsgt Lloyd Odum
December, 1944
Near Liege, Belgium, Battle of the Bulge
My Uncle


Leon A. Tyner, Jr. USA
Fought in Vietnam and Cambodia
Succumbed to the effects of Agent Orange in April, 2016
My first cousin and best friend.


TAPS

Day is done, gone the sun
from the lake, from the hill,
from the sky.
All is well, safely rest. God is nigh.

Thanks and praise for our days
'neath the sun, 'neath the stars,
'neath the sky.
As we go, this we know. God is nigh.

 

[Brauee20]

Capt. Andrew C. Becker
318th Special Operations Squadron
December 4, 1983 - March 4, 2017