My generation grew up
watching, being entertained by and laughing with so many of these fine people.
Never really knowing what they contributed to the war effort.
Like millions of Americans during WWI & WWII, there was a job that needed
doing and they didn't question it,
just went and did it.
Those that came home returned to their now new normal life and carried on
and
very few ever saying what they did or saw.
They took it as their "responsibility" and their "duty" to the Country to
protect and preserve our freedoms.
American way of life not just for themselves, but for all future generations to
come.
As a member of that “Finest" generation, I'm forever humbly in their debt.
Here are only a few of these silent heroic Heroes that are slowly being forgotten
Do You Remember These Men?
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James Earl
Jones With the war intensifying in Korea, Jones expected to be deployed as soon
as he received his commission as a second lieutenant.
Jones was commissioned in mid-1953 and reported to Fort
Benning to
attend Infantry Officers Basic Course.
He then attended Ranger
School and
received his Ranger
Tab.
He was initially to report to Fort
Leonard Wood, but his unit
was instead sent to establish a cold weather training command at the former Camp
Hale near Leadville,
Colorado.
His battalion became a training unit in the rugged terrain of the Rocky
Mountains.
Jones was promoted to first
lieutenant prior
to his discharge.
Mike Kellin enlisted and served as a lieutenant commander in the Navy during World War II.
Richard
"Dick" Miller served a tour of duty in the United
States Navy
and earned a prize title as a middleweight boxer.
Don Matheson Served in the Korean War. Left high school at the
age of sixteen,
and continued his education whilst in service in the Marine Corps.
After some time in the Army Airborne division, he was transferred to the
Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
He acted as an agent for the United Nations Command, posted in Korea.
While in Korea, he was awarded the Bronze Star for
valorous leadership and a Purple Heart for injuries
suffered in an explosion.
His CID work included investigations in to the use of narcotics amongst Army
troops.
After serving six years, he joined the Detroit Police
Department.
William Denison McKinney At
the age of 19, joined the Navy during the Korean
War.
He served two years on a mine sweeper in Korean waters,
and was stationed at Port
Hueneme in Ventura
County, California and
discharge in 1954.
Ralph Meeker (born Ralph
Rathberger) Enlisted after graduating from Northwestern University in 1942.
His military service ended after a shipboard accident left him with a neck
injury.
Allan John Melvin served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Adolphe
Jean Menjou enlisted during World
War I, he
served as a captain in the United
States Army ambulance
service.
He trained in Pennsylvania before going overseas to France.
Gerald Mohr served (1942-45) three years in the US Army Air Forces during World War II.
Jack Alvin
"Alvy" Moore
service
with the United
States Marine Corps during World
War II,
in which he saw combat in the Battle
of Iwo Jima.
Harvey
Lembeck served
in the US Army, and the Marine Corps, he served in the submarine service aboard
the USS S-34 (SS-139).
Records show that he returned from seven war patrols to San Diego in July
1943
and spent the rest of the war providing training and discharged World
War II in
1945.
Don Taylor was drafted into the United States Army Air Forces (AAF) during World War II.
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