We as parents are very proud of your service in the Maine Army National Guard and your service to the war on terrorism in Iraq. You are a credit to the service and we thank you for the time you spent over in Kuwait. God Bless you and each one who have served and defended their country and to the many who lost their lives trying to make this a better world.

Jack we are very proud of you for what you are doing for our country...we will all miss you and we will pray each and everyday. Jack has been in the army serving his country for 16 years and is now returning back to Iraq in November, 2005. Jack again we are very proud of you and all your family and friends will be praying each and everyday for your return back home to your family.

I am proud that you volunteered to go with the 152nd when you could have stayed home with me and avoided this trying deployment, you will never regret your sacrifice. Thank you for making this world safer from terrorism for me, our families, and all Americans. You are my hero and I love you!

Thank you for the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you also for the wonderful angels you left behind.

Thanks for your leadership, mentorship, and above all friendship. Through the good and bad you got us through it. Thanks Sarge

Randy was a wonderful husband and father who served with the 101st Airborne Division. He was part of the MFO. Peace Keeping Force in Saudi Arabia from July of 1985 to December 12, 1985 when the plane he was on went down in Gander, New Foundland and all aboard were killed. He was part of a peace keeping force along with 247 other soldiers that were on their way back to Fort Campbell Kentucky. Randy kept in touch through letters and phone calls, he was very proud of his family and proud to be serving his country.

For the past 20 years you gave of yourself selflessly and endured absences from your family and friends. We are all very proud of you!

Thank you Shawn for serving our country and for defending my freedom !!!

My father was such a strong, patriotic American that he lived it every day of his short life. He taught me the importance of FEELING patriotic. For that I will be forever grateful. He died at age 42 from cancer that he always claimed to have gotten during the war, yet never stopping from loving his country! He was a Naval Fighter Pilot.

My father was a Naval Aviator during WWII and taught me throughout my youth how to be a strong, dedicated American Patriot. He was a proud seviceman, and then veteran. His life was cut short in 1964 at age 42 because of cancer. I know that if he were alive today he would be extremely sad at the way in which the level of patriotism has declined. To him and all of that generation I say "Thank You!" for our freedoms, your sacrifices, and for instilling into so many of us the true meaning of American Patriotism.