Russell Peterson
Thank you Russell for your service and sacrifice for our freedoms.
Thank you Russell for your service and sacrifice for our freedoms.
Dad, I am so very proud of you for fighting for our country, so that we may live safe and free. You are myhero Dad and I would like to thank you and let you know I appreciate you!
To his many years of service for the country loves. He loved serving his country and if he could re-enlist he would. He may not have gone to Iraq, but if he would have been told to he was going over, he would have gone over with pride. I find that dedication to his country to be an honorable one.
My father, Rue Cray served with the 258th Combat Engineer Battalion during WWII. He was a great man of courage and honor. I am proud of my father and the service he gave to his country.
Roy was assigned to an Air Force Special Operations Force Helicopter Gunship. Flew many sorties and received the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Thanks to his 20 years of service to this great country.
I am the proud daughter to a great soldier who climbed the cliffs on Omaha beach, the first team. How a boy of 17 years is ready to do this I'll never know. I think around June 3rd is when his boats were loaded to head there. He was wounded twice, two purple hearts and lived to come home with a beautiful french bride who worked for the red cross over there, a beautiful woman who was in this country for 67 years with her man till they just passed away. If that isn't a love story I don't know what is. A FATHER TO BE PROUD OF!
Dad, I don't think you really know how much your service relly means to us. How many men lived to climb those cliffs at OMAHA BEACH. All those medals and PURPLE HEARTS (2) will always be treasured. Our Veterans are the best, all of you wherever you served. Greatest of all you brought back the most treasured thing with you, MY MOM. Thank you Dad. They had 67 beautiful years. She just passed at 90 years young, still with that cute french accent. I just wish our vets in Wells got as much Attention in Augusta. They seem forgotten.
You never returned from the conflict; you never got to learn why you and the many others were even over there; and you never got the honor that you deserved for staying there when you could have come home. I have missed you since 1966..and now that I am the last in our immediate family alive, I want to put it in writing that I am very proud of you. I will miss you forever.Love, Your Little Sis
My Uncle Ronnie fought as a US Army Special Forces Medic in Vietnam he was killed in 1967 long before I was born, but to this day he has affected a lot that I do. In 2005 I joined the US Army and went airborne soon after and was sent to Iraq in the fall of 2006. I wore my Uncles jump wings on my dog tags every day. I am sorry that I never had the chance to meet this man but to this day he is my hero and I try to live up to the things that he did.