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Memorial Day is a national holiday to honor those who died in combat in defense of America and will be observed this year on Monday, May 30th.
There were 116,000 military casualties in World War I, 400,000 in WW 2, 33,000 in Korea, 60,000 in Vietnam and 3,000 since the September 11th terror attacks and it is their sacrifice should be remembered on Memorial Day.
Of those casualties 105 were from Tallahassee and they should be remembered not as a number but by their name. These were the sons, husbands, brothers and uncles of our town and they died as infantrymen in Vietnam, fighter pilots in Korea, prisoners of war in Japan, or lost at sea following a submarine attack of their ship in the Atlantic.
They paid the ultimate price for the freedom we enjoy.
On Monday, Memorial Day, step aside from the Bar-B-Que picnic for a moment and thank them for what they did.
For specific details on the service of the individuals below, you can enter their name at www.honorstates.org.
Danny Wade Alday, Navy, Vietnam,
Robert Preston Aldredge, WW2, Air Corps
Joseph Anderson, WW2 Army
William Harold Anderson, WW2, Army
Thomas Wallace Appleyard, WW2 Air Corps
Clifford Miles Armstrong, WW2, Army
Fredrick Nathanial Ash, Vietnam, Army
William D. Atkinson, WW2, Army
Elliot Dean Ayer, Korea, Air Force
Larry C. Baker, WW2, Army
John Richard Ballard, Vietnam, Army
Robert Edgar Beauchamp, WW2, Air Corps
John Lee Bendor, Vietnam, Army
Robert Dennis Black, Jr., Vietnam, Army
Terry Phillip Brady, Vietnam, Army
Benjamin H. Bridges, WW2, Army
Fred E. Brock, WW2, Army
James Brown, Jr. Korea, Army
Willie Brown, Vietnam, Marines
Franklin B. Buck WW2, Air Corps
Wilson Burnett, Jr. WW2, Army
Frank J. Burns, WW2, Army
Lenard W. Clark, WW2, Army
Robert Clemons, II, WW2, Army
Richard Cradic, Korea, Army
Clayton Leon Cruce, Vietnam, Marines
Arthur C. Cundy, Jr. WW2, Air Corps
Willie L. Davis, WW2, Army
Charles P. Dawson, WW2, Air Corps
George P. Dingley, WW1, Army
Bill Gray Fain, Korea, Air Force
George H. Fender, WW2, Army
Charles W. Ferguson, WW2, Army
John Wesley Ford, Korea, Army
Daniel Franklin, WW2, Air Corps
Willie Gaines, WW2, Army
Robert Howard Gamble, WW1, Army
Henry H. Gaskins, WW2, Army
Roscoe Graves, WW2, Army
Joe H. Gray, WW2, Air Corps
Joseph W. Hall, WW2, Army
Joseph Richard Harris, Vietnam, Army
Alan Daryl Harvey,WW2 Army
Clarence J. Harvey, WW2, Army
William A. Herring, WW2, Army
Maurice F. Hogan, WW2, Army
Earl Holiday, Korea, Army
Noah Hudson, WW2, Air Corps
Jerry Grant Ingram, Vietnam, Army
Carlton Jerry Johnson, Vietnam, Marines
Erwin Jones, Vietnam, Army
Herbert C. Kaufman, WW2, Army
Joseph, R. Kearse, WW2, Army
Enoch E. Kelly, WW2, Army
Willis D. King, WW2, Air Corps
Etienne J. Labat, Jr., WW2, Army
Augustusst Lamb, WW1, Army
Herman, E. Lawhon, WW2, Army
Jack McBride Lisle, WW2, Army
James Robert Maddox, WW2, Army
Willie N. Martin, WW2, Army
Henry McClenton, Vietnam, Army
Everett E. Melton, WW2, Army
William Heyward Messer, WW2, Army
Frank L. Miller, WW2, Army
Gordon H. Miller, WW2, Air Corps
Hollis Gregory Miller, Vietnam, Army
Julius Augusta Mitchell, Vietnam, Army
Edmund C. Moore, WW2, Army
Michael Ralph Odom, Vietnam, Army
David Lanier Ozbolt, WW2, Air Corps
John Jackson Parker, Vietnam, Navy
Benjamin H. Payne, WW1, Army
Commie Eugene Price, Korea, Navy
Doyle Wells Reeves, Vietnam, Marines
James S. Rickards, Jr., WW2, Army
William S. Roberts, WW2, Army
Eddie Robinson, Korea, Army
Elzie Eugene Samuels, Vietnam, Marines
Claude Sauls, WW1, Army
Harold Scott, WW2, Air Corps
James Timothy Sheffield, Vietnam, Army
Curtis E. Shelton, WW1, Army
Marion B. Shepard WW2, Army
James L. Smith, WW2, Army
Johnnie Perry Stephens, Jr., Vietnam, Army
Guy R. Strickland, WW2, Army
Elmer R. Stull, WW2, Army
Aulsey M. Sutton, WW2, Army
Ernest Ivy Thomas, WW2, Marines
Oscar Lee Thomas, Vietnam, Army
Raymond, F. Thompson, WW2, Army
Edward Trueblood, WW2, Army
Maruice, H. Watson, WW2, Army
Alfred Weekley, WW2, Army
Linza Whiddon, WW2, Army
Frank Emanuel Williams
Thomas Wilson, Jr., Korea, Army
William B. Woodward, WW2, Air Corps
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Thank you for mentioning my Uncle James Robert Maddox.
Robert A. Wise. US Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom. The road to the VFW is named after him!!!
Thank you TR and TR subscriber for that memorial.
Freedom isn’t free.
The United States is the greatest country in the world. (If you don’t think so, please, move to the country you think is greater.)
We owe an abundance of gratitude to these MEN.
I’m gonna add my dad to this list, Robert Ervin Consalvi, Vietnam, Air Force. He came home but his service took him from us much too early, due to exposure to Agent Orange.
Awesome! Thanks for compiling this. Over 200 soldiers died in training accidents at Tallahassee’s Dale Mabry Field during WWII. See https://www.facebook.com/DMAAFTally
Raymond F. Thompson was my Uncle, my Dad’s Brother.