PFC Robert L. Alley, US ArmyCpl John R. Angel, USAAFCpl Karl C. Appel, USMCSgt James F. Arndt, US ArmyCpl Elwood H. Banks, USMCAOM1c J. Gordon Bastien, US NavyPFC Chet W. Becker, US ArmyCpl Benedict E. Bellefeuille, USMCT/4 Enrico P. Bongio, US ArmySgt Oscar A. Smith, USMCSK3c Robert F. Brown, US NavySgt Oscar A. Brooks, USMCPhM3c LaVerne L. Bucy, US NavyS/Sgt George F. Burch, USMCPFC John J. Burke, US ArmyT/5 Robert E. Busick, US ArmyRM3c Donald R. Calver, US NavySM2c Richard K. Campbell, US NavyLt(jg) Edward L. Caustin, US NavyQM3c Joseph M. Cenoz, US NavySgt Everett Chandler, USAAFT/Sgt Donald E. Clarke, USMCAOM3c Earl D. Cornwell, US NavyCaptain Clyde W. Coryell, US NavyLt Thomas M. Coryell, US NavyMajor Robert J. Cox, USMCSSgt William A. Deane, USAAFT/Sgt John P. DeNicola, USMC1st Lt Silvio Di Loreto, USAAF2nd Lt Anna L. Dudley, US ArmyCapt Allen L. Duff, USAAFSSgt Leo A. Dumouchelle, US Army1st Lt Robert P. Dwight, USAAFSM3c Hugh C. Earley, US NavyCapt John H. Evans, USMCMoMM2c William M. Fazekas, US NavyCdr Louis P. Fedor, US NavyRM2c John A. Feliciano, US NavyCMSAF Alfred L Findley, Jr., USAFLt Col Arnold F.W. Frank, US ArmySSgt Mitsugi Fukuhara, US ArmyMajor Roy Gersten, US ArmyCpl Frank J. Geth, USMCLt Col Jack Graden, USAAFRdM2c Donald Gullickson, US Navy

M/Sgt Ruth P. Gwin, US ArmyS/Sgt Karl Haeuser, USAAFCpl Joseph H. Hale, USMCLt(jg) Jay B. Harris, USCGMildred Harstad-Muggelberg, Red CrossPFCWesley Hemenway, USAAFSSgt Robert C. Hersey, USAAF1st Lt Donald E. Hoelle, USAAFCox Oliver S. Hopkins, US Navy

PhM3c Ivan Hudson, US NavyS1c Robert Huether, US NavyAMM3c Arthur R. Hypio, US NavyS/Sgt Bonnie I. Jones-Meyer, US ArmyCapt Arthur C. Kane, USAAFPFC Donald B. Keefer, US ArmyS1c Ruth K. Kelly-Brewster, US Navy1st Lt Arthur O. King, USAAFPFC Marc M. Laxer, US ArmySgt John B. Link, US ArmyPFC Harold R. Lowe, US ArmyMajor Herbert C. Lucas, USAFSM2c G. Eugene Lundstrom, US NavyCpl Frank R. Martinez, USMCS1c Jane Masterson, US Navy

Y1c Marion C. McKie, USCGCpl Elmer Meier, US ArmyLt Col Robert J. Mellema, USAFCpl M. Frank Meyer, US ArmyPhM2c Kenneth E. Morehouse, US NavySFC Richard A. Morris, US ArmyCk3c Leon J, Mountain, USCGET2c George T. Murray, US NavyPvt Loren L. Nicholson, US Army

Lt Col William Oberholser. USAFCk3c David E. Orr, US NavyCol Dominick B. Perello, USAFTSgt Paul J. Pietsch, US ArmyPhM3c Charles A. Poulson, US Navy1stLt Warren E. Quist, USAAFTM2c Victor M. Radwick, US NavyPFC Natividad G. Ramos, US ArmyCaptain William S. Reid, US NavyPvt MaryBelle Bateman-Romero, USMCCMoMM John P. Roza, Jr., US NavyCapt Murray E. Rudd, USAFGM3c Rudolph Samano, US NavyCol Dupre Sassard, US ArmySSgt Joseph D. Schatz, USMCT/5 Sumito B. Shigenaka, US ArmyLt Col WilliamW. Siler, USAAFTM3c Leon V. Smith, US Navy1st Lt William M. Smith, USAAFCpl Jack T. Spaulding, USAAFCdr Walter A. Stacy, US Navy

ET1c Spencer H. Stimler, US NavyPFC Charles L. Stites, US ArmyPFC Edward O. Stoffel, US ArmyLtCol Newell M. Terrill, USAFEM3c Clarence W.Thoma, US NavyDoris Thompson-Stacy, WAMSCpl David M. Trieger, US Army1st Lt John T. Uhran, USAAFCk3c William B. Warren, US NavyCpl John S. Wilcox, USMC2nd Lt Leo Wulff, USAAFCpl Floyd L. York, USAAFSoM3c Dale J. Zuelner, US Navy

Ode to WW II Veterans

The stories that these men and women tell are the stories of the triumph of the humanspirit. These are the men and women of a generation that lost their innocence andsaved the world. Theirs is a story worth repeating. For theirs is a story that ennoblesthe human spirit; theirs is a story that provides the rationale, the very reason, for our

pride in being Americans; theirs is a story that compels us to reach deep within to find andutilize the great potential of our human spirit. These are the real heroes, these are the real idolsand these are the real icons. They gave up their dreams, their aspirations, and some, all theirtomorrows so that we could inherit the bounty of liberty and freedom; Freedom is not free!Our Founding Fathers provided us the means by which we could live in freedom; our men andwomen throughout our history have fought to guarantee those freedoms. Theirs is a story writ-ten in blood and watered with tears. Our men and women in the military today, are no less val-iant or dedicated. They are on the front lines of the continuing and everlasting battle for libertyand freedom; without which there can be no “... pursuit of happiness.” Our Veterans, throughoutour history have given meaning to “... Duty, Honor, Country.”©

Lt(jg) Joseph E. Brocato, USNR (Former)The General Hoyt S. Vandenberg ChapterThe Military Order ofthe World Wars

WW II Veterans Tribute30 October 2014

ACelebration of OurWWII Veterans