2023 Southeast Colorado Veterans' Memorial Tribute Wall
Description: A Memorial to Southeast Colorado Veterans of All Service Branches and All Generations.
The SECO News 2023 Southeast Colorado Veterans' Memorial Tribute Wall
A Collection of Poetry and Memorials Collected To Be Shared In Loving Memory of Our Southeast Colorado Veterans...
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Theodore Ernest Lewis
August 26, 1922 - April 12, 2004
United States Navy
Theodore Ernest Lewis Obituary
William "Bill" Hart
Army Air Corp
US Airforce
Lt. Col., La Junta Air Force Base SAT Commander
Lt Col William Mcrae Hart In Memorium
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Pearl Gaynelle "Gay" Turner Hart
US Army RN 2nd Lt.
Robert "Bob" Moody
Marines
WWII
Leland A. Brubaker
United States Navy
George Francis Pawlish
February 25, 1941 - March 8, 1967
Vietnam War
Navy
George Francis Pawlish on honorstates.org
SSG Justin Lee Vasquez
January 26, 1979 - June 5, 2005
Manzanola
Verald "Bud" Quick
August 31, 1932 - December 15, 2019
United States Army
Kash, Wayne Franklin, b. 12/02/1940, d. 08/05/1999, US Navy, BMC,300
Jay Scott
April 17, 1948 - March 30, 2022
US Navy
SECO News Podcast Interview With Jay Scott
We Shall Keep the Faith
by Moina Michael
Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet - to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valour led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honour of our dead.
Fear not that ye have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
Marion E. Riley
SGT. Army Air Corp WWII
Born July 22, 1917 Evergreen, Alabama
Died April 1, 1991 La Junta, Colorado
How Sleep the Brave
by William Collins
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country’s wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallow’d mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy’s feet have ever trod.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there!
Sgt Cory Bay. Marines. Jan 30 2014
Solomon Brownstein
Pictured here with his first wife and adopted daughter, refugees from Kaisersesch, Germany, 1952.
USAAF, WWII
USAFR, Korea
Service dates unknown
b. 1921, Ohio
d. 2000, California
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Julius Johannes
United States Navy
Battleship USS Mississippi during World War II
Clarence Jake Johannes
July 2, 1933 - May 30, 2011
United States Air Force
Clarence Jake Johannes Obituary
Requiem
By: Joseph Lee
When the last voyage is ended,
And the last sail is furled,
When the last blast is weathered,
And the last bolt is hurled,
And there comes no more the sound of the old ship bell --
Sailor, sleep well!
When the last Post is blown,
And the last volley fired,
When the last sod is thrown,
And the last Foe retired,
And thy last bivouac is made under ground --
Soldier, sleep sound!
William Glenn Parker
December 13, 1944 - January 11, 2021
US Air Force Radio Opperator
William Glenn Parker Virtual Eulogy
Kenneth (Kenny) Bernal Obituary
First Lt. Jack Logan Quinn
July 31, 1922 - November 19, 2003
United States Air Force
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36102971/jack-logan-quinn
Fred Hare
United States Air Force
passed away in 2011
Edward Earl Hunnicutt
United States Navy
Edward Earl Hunnicutt Obituary
Rodney Hoffmeyer
United States Marine Corps
Elmer Bennett Parker
March 2, 1924 - March 8, 2013
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106458675/elmer-bennett-parker
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