[Aquamarine]

The memory of our family service members can be sad but they deserve to be remembered and admired for the sacrifice they made for all of us.

[Bigg Red]

Mark

[ponygirl]

The memory of our family service members can be sad but they deserve to be remembered and admired for the sacrifice they made for all of us.

Absolutely. My mom’s little brother earned a Bronze Star in Vietnam. None of us ever knew until after he died and we were going through his things and found the medal and a picture. My aunt recalled him mentioning something about a recovery mission where they had to retrieve casualties, but knew nothing else and he never spoke about it. I tried repeatedly to get him to talk about Nam and he would just clam up. Although I did write down his rank progression and dates of service once… he was willing to give me that info for the genealogy files, but very little else. I need to put that medal on my research list to see if I can get more information about it.