©By Larry Hume

Every Veteran Has a Story: Lieutenant Junior Grade-Lexa Bertha

Lexa Bertha Dickerson Chandler Wagner
Lieutenant (Junior Grade), United States Navy Nurse, World War II

Every Veteran Has a Story: Private First-Class Rayford Harold Ceal

Private First-Class Rayford Harold Ceal
United States Army – Killed in Action
24 Infantry Division, 21 Infantry Regiment

Every Veteran Has A Story: Sergeant Nolan R. Anderson

Sergeant Nolan R. Anderson
United States Army, World War II – Killed In Action
507th Parachute Infantry – 82nd Airborne Division

Every Veteran Has A Story: William Howard Pearce

January 12, 2018 -

MM1C William Howard Pearce
United States Navy, World War II

USS Gatling

©By Larry Hume, VFW Post 8904, Center, Texas (01/12/2018)

Every Veteran Has A Story: Earl Rolien Ritter

August 23, 2017 -

Earl Rolien Ritter
World War I Veteran
Wounded in Action

"I was worried clean through. I didn't want to go and kill. I believed in my Bible."…. Alvin York, Medal of Honor Winner, World War I.

Elizabeth Davis Holmes: Army Nurse Corps, United States Army, World War I

November 2, 2016 - The United States Army Nurse Corps was formally established by the US Congress in 1901 and the Navy Nurse Corps followed in 1908.

James L. Fountain: Staff Sergeant, United States Army, Vietnam War

September 26, 2016 - “A mile of road takes you nowhere, a mile of runway takes you elsewhere, a helicopter takes you anywhere” ……. unknown.

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