Christmas Season In Pocomoke City

IT'S  THE CHRISTMAS SEASON

IN

DOWNTOWN POCOMOKE

When shopping downtown Pocomoke don't forget your donation of canned goods to benefit the Samaritan Shelter.  The Samritan Shelter  added a new wing not long ago to shelter Mothers and their making  the need for donated foods even greater.  The Smaritan Shelter pantry also serves the needy in the community. Please help in any way you can.

Take your non-perishable foods to the following locations and receive  coupons, discounts and/or holiday treats:  Scher's Bridal Shop; Classic Collections; Enchanted Florist; Mar-Va Theater; Lusby's Hardware & Maytag Appliances; Robinanne's Quilting Service; Salty Dog Grooming; and the Delmarva Discovery Center.

PLEASE REMEMBER:

The Pocomoke City Police Department is holding its annual Christmas Party on December 18, 2011 at Bethany  Salem Church.

2010/ Toys  collected from Bingos held at the Pocomoke Fair Grounds
to benefit the Pocomoke Police Dept. Toy Drive

TOYS are needed so that these children will have something new for Christmas.  Your toy donations will also be accepted at either of the stores listed above.

Please don't don't think this doesn't happen in Pocomoke.  I am proof that it does.  One Christmas morning many years ago when my son was very young we were visited early that morning by one of his friends.  The child was grinning from hear to ear holding nothing but a Christms pencil and a Match Box car.  It was all he had asked for- except for a bicycle.  Santa could not afford to leave him one.  I don't know who was devastated more- myself or my children.  They had received so much.

It didn't take long for my young son to get into the garage, clean his old bicycle up a little and ride it to the little boys house.  We hadn't decided what to do with it so my son made the decission. 

(Edward, we still think about you- wherever you may be........)

Children that are truly poor never ask for much.....

 

The Rural Sign Painter

I think The Rural Sign Painter is in desperate need of new plywood and paint.

TIME MACHINE ... Holiday Time

It's the rush of the holiday season so this week some short holiday-related items. Next week an article from more than a century ago will tell of holiday shopping reaching its peak on Christmas Eve... (1897) "And this holiday rush will continue far into the evening because Christmas Eve is everybody's evening. It is the evening when all take the evening off from the ordinary occupations of their ordinary existences and spend that evening down town..."

　
October, 1880

(The Denton Journal)


Sussex is shipping holly to Colorado for Christmas decoration.

November, 1887

(The Herald And Torchlight- Hagerstown, Md)

Agents from Farmington, Del., have been in Princess Anne, Somerset County, for several days collecting holly twigs with berries on them. The twigs are packed in small boxes made for the purpose and shipped direct to Chicago, St. Louis, and Canada, and are used for decorating purposes. Those who have holly are making a good thing out of it.
　
　
December, 1888

(The New York Times)

HE IS STILL ALIVE

SNOW HILL, Md., Dec 24.- Twenty-seven years ago C.H. Corbin of Pocomoke City crossed the lines and cast his fortunes with the Confederacy. At the close of the war he did not return. He was mourned as dead. To the astonishment of the neighborhood, he has just come back to spend Christmas in his old home. He is engaged in business in Georgia.

　
December, 1941

Town Tavern in Pocomoke was advertising informal dancing for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve with music by Slim Marshall's Orchestra. Admission 75-cents per person.

　
December, 1961

Newberry's, Pocomoke City, "Gift Headquarters For The Eastern Shore," Open every night 'til 9, Monday thru Saturday 'til Christmas. Telephone Santa... Call xxxx anytime day or night...24 hours a day. He has a message for every boy or girl who calls him.



December, 1968


A new 1969 Camaro would be given away in a Shop Pocomoke promotion sponsored by the Pocomoke Ciity Businessmen's Association. Members of the Association were: Bata Shore Store...Burnett White of Pocomoke...W.H.Clarke & Company...City Service Oil Company (C.K. Duncan)...The Democratic Messenger...George's Furniture...Guy's Implement Company...Hancock's Grocery...Lankford & Cutler Hardware...Montgomery Ward Catalog Store...Midway Auto...Miller-Massey Auto...Somers-Kirby Motor Company...Miller's Ladies Shop...Modern Floor Company... J.J. Newberry...Outten Brothers...Pocomoke City Flower Shop...Pocomoke City Pharmacy...Pocomoke Machine & Implement Company...R.E.Powell & Company...Scher's...Schoolfield & Ham...Sears Catalog Store...Sherwin Williams...Silco...Vincent's Jewelers...Webb's Grocery...Western Auto...George E. Young Auto Parts.

　
December, 1970

The Fantastic Mystics were providing the dance music for the public two days before Christmas at the Pocomoke Holiday Inn's annual Pocomoke Christmas Party.


　
December, 1972

Pocomoke's annual Christmas concert by the Salem United Methodist Church choir was scheduled with members of other area church choirs also participating. Barry Tull of Pocomoke City would play trumpet and Miss Carol Cherrix of Snow Hill would be flutist. Choir director Mrs. Naomi Stevenson would be organist. Vocal soloists from Pocomoke would include Miss Julia Ann Ball, Mrs. Betsy C. Massey, Mrs. Peter Thompson, Miss Susan Humphreys, Mrs. Frederick White, and Miss Nancy Henderson, plus Mrs. Elwyn Cooper of Stockton.


　
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New Pocomoke Restaurant Making Progress

Saturday/ December 10, 2011

Making progress.  Recent photos of the restaurant being built on the Pocomoke River adjacent to the Delmarva Discover Center.

As you enter Pocomoke and cross the Pocomoke drawbridge you can't miss the construction site!

Even working hard on a Saturday afternoon.

The new restaurant is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy by May of 2012

Wreath-laying Event at Arlington to ‘remember, honor and teach’

By Pamela Constable

Thousands of people filtered quietly among the rows of white tombstones in Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, placing identical pine wreaths with simple red bows at the graves of sons, cousins, parents, battlefield buddies, fraternity brothers and strangers fallen in half-a-dozen wars over the past 70 years.

There were Boy Scout troops, military units in dress uniforms and extended families in mittens and earmuffs. Many headed for familiar spots and formed somber clusters around a single tomb. Some said prayers or read out combat citations and saluted. Others wept or simply stood and stared, lost in thought.

“Every stone here has a story,” said Tim Frey, 43, a police officer from Lancaster, Pa., who came to honor Lt. Col. Mark P. Phelan, a member of his Army Reserve unit, who was killed by an explosive device in Iraq in 2004. “I’m here from a sense of duty, and to see a friend again,” he said. “Other people may not know anyone, but it’s still an honor to come here.”

More than 100,000 wreaths, loaded onto about 20 tractor-trailers, arrived after a six-day caravan from Maine for the 20th annual Wreaths Across America event, sponsored by a nonprofit group. The trucks parked at scattered spots around the vast cemetery, and hundreds of volunteers handed them to waiting visitors.

The event included formal wreath-layings at the grave of President John F. Kennedy, the Tomb of the Unknowns, and the original mast of the USS Maine, a legendary battleship sunk in 1898.

The official slogan of the organizers was “Remember, Honor and Teach,” and the wreath-bearing convoy stopped for special events in towns on the way. But for most visitors to the cemetery, it was a day of personal mourning and private reflection.

“Christmas doesn’t seem to mean what it used to mean, and we need to remember that these soldiers died so we can have the things we have,” said Jeannie Ludwig, 39, of Fairfax, who was visiting the graves of her grandparents, both veterans of World War II, and the grave of a friend who died in Iraq. “My kids are still too young to understand what these soldiers did for us, but this is a way to begin talking to them about it.”

By far, the most crowded portion of the cemetery was Section 60, where the most recent casualties of American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried.

Members of the District’s National Guard unit came to mourn Spec. Darryl Dent, 19, who died in Iraq.

The grief-stricken family of Navy Cmdr. Charles K. Springle, 52, wept and hugged at his tomb. Springle died in May 2009 when a fellow U.S. soldier opened fire at a military clinic in Baghdad. His parents, Ruth and Charles, traveled from Beaufort, N.C., for the event, and were met there by his daughter, Sarah Monday.



Volunteers

Members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at Virginia Tech gathered to honor 1st Lt. Jeffrey Kaylor, killed by a grenade in Iraq. One member, Jeff Dawley, 26, of Reston, paid his respects to Kaylor and then headed to visit the grave of his father, who he said had died because of exposure to the chemical defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Some mourners preferred to keep their grief private. A group of tight-lipped Special Forces officers, standing next to a friend’s tomb, politely declined to speak to a reporter. At another grave, a middle-aged man recited the obituary of a soldier decorated for valor in combat, but said he would rather not talk about him.

But for many others, Wreaths Across America served as a public ritual, a way to connect veterans and their families across wars and generations, or a form of group therapy. Gray-bearded Vietnam veterans in motorcycle jackets handed out bright red Christmas caps to Boy Scout packs and shook hands with spit-and-polish Marine officers.

Lynn Hill, 62, of Silver Spring wore a historic cavalry uniform and said his mission was to memorialize the 9th and 10th Horse cavalries of the Buffalo Soldiers, the Army unit founded in 1866 and composed of freed black slaves. He said he had attended every Wreath Day since 1992, “to honor all the dead soldiers” in American history.

Regina Barnhurst, the mother of a slain Marine from Severna Park, turned her son’s tomb into a day-long gathering place for other grieving families. The spot was next to a holly tree, where she and some friends put up a ladder and invited visitors to hang personal messages on the boughs and share coffee and doughnuts.

“I used to wonder how I would survive Christmas, but this has become a way for us to support each other,” said Barnhurst, who began weeping as she recounted how her son, Eric Herzberg, had been fatally shot by a sniper in Iraq five years ago. “You have to do something to get through the holidays,” she said with a sad smile. “For all of us, there is still such a huge hole.”

Source;  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/arlingtons-holiday-wreath-laying-event-to-remember-honor-and-teach/2011/12/10/gIQAKiXblO_story.html

TIME MACHINE Preview ... Holiday Time

This week some holiday-related items from times past and a preview of an upcoming 1897 article about Christmas Eve.

It's this Sunday on The Pocomoke Public Eye!

　
　
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Shop Downtown Pocomoke Today- Get Into The Spirit of Christmas

While you're shopping in downtown Pocomoke today after visiting the 2 Annual Winter Waterman's Festival be sure to shope the local businesses.   Remember that businesses are still collecting  non-perishable food goods for the Samaritan Shelter in Pocomoke.

Participating businesses downtown are offering discounts, coupons,  and/or holiday treats in exchange for your donations.  Don't be afraid to think outside the box!  The food pantry at the Samritan Shelter can always use things like seasonings, cocoa, soda and always water.

Keep in mind that there are always the less fortunate in any town and children are always in need of something special during the Christmas season.

The Pocomoke City Police Department will continue its toy drive this year in preparation for the Children's Christmas Party later this month.  The same deals apply at the business downtown for your toy donation.

If you haven't been downtown Pocomoke lately get there soon! 

A special treat to enjoy this season are the windows proudly painted by a group of hight school students from Pocomoke High School.  Children (and myself) love to see the festive windows!

Have a great  time shopping downtown Pocomoke.

SHADIOW Has Been Found

SHADOW the missing cat from the Pocomoke Heights/Payne Avenue area has been found and returned home thanks to some children in the area.

A huge thankyou to everyone !

Downtown Pocomoke TODAY- Winter Waterman's Festival

SECOND ANNUAL

WINTER WATERMAN'S FESTIVAL

Delmarva Discovery Center

December 10th

10 AM to 4 PM

Join the Delmarva Discovery Center for our 2nd annual Winter Watermen's Festival. The Winter Watermen's Festival is a celebration of our Delmarva heritage.

Local watermen will share their stories

from 11 AM - 1 PM.

We'll have delicious food samples from local favorites such as Bill's Seafood, Watermen's Inn, the Upper Deck, Don's Seafood & Chicken House, the Crusty Crab, and Bay Queen Galley. Local artists will be displaying and selling their work as well! 

New to the Festival are wine from Bishop's Stock and beer from Burley Oak Brewery!

This is the perfect time for holiday shopping and celebrating Delmarva!

Don't miss out! 

Event is free with paid admission.

Remember canned goods and other non-perishable foods are still being collected for the Samaritan Shelter.  Not only does the Samitan Shelter serves as a shelter but also operates as a food pantry in the community.  It's services are valuable to those in need.

Businesses collecting: Scher's Bridal Shop; Classic Collections; Enchanted Florist; Mar-Va Theater; Lusby's Hardware & Maytag Appliances; Robinanne's Quilting Service; Salty Dog Grooming; and the Delmarva Discovery Center.

Each of the above establishments is generously offering coupons, special discounts, and/or holiday treats in exchange for your donations.

So while visiting Pocomoke today take time to do a little Christmas shopping!

Remember:  You don't have to live in Pocomoke to shop downtown.

Just shop downtown Pocomoke.

Happening At the Mar-Va Theater This Weekend

With a cast of 31, with ages ranging from 5-75, it's going to be something you will never forget!

"It's a Wonderful Life"

Mar-Va Theater

Pocomoke City, Maryland

Friday, Dec 9th at 7:30PM
Saturday, Dec 10th at 7:30 PM

Sunday, Dec 11th at 2:00PM

Tickets:

$15 for adults
$7 for children under 12




~MERRY CHRISTMAS~

SMILE! IT'S FRIDAY........This video may cause laughter..

With just a little over 2 weeks before Christmas Day many  of us are working towards the goal of  having everything in place and being ready to enjoy the holidays.

                                          

However, at this time of year there always seems to be one (maybe two-maybe more) days  that has a complete BLEEP in it!

It's Friday.  Let's laugh! 

And if you have never spent a holiday season that describes what the folks are singing about in this song be grateful! 

~MERRY CHRISTMAS~

Local Artist At Delmarva Discovery Center

Local artist Jenny Somers is at the

Delmarva Discovery Center

1:00 until 3:00

Stop by and watch as she paints those beautiful Christmas tree ornaments.

The ornaments Jenny hand paints  make a  thoughful Christmas gift....Handpainted ornaments are the best to have on a Christmas tree.

Give her your special order today!

SHORE BEEF and BBQ

FRIDAY SPECIAL

ALL DAY

Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwich w/side

drink ~ $7.50

FOR AN EXTRA $1 YOU CAN ADD

CHEDDAR CHESSE AND BACON

( sounds yummy)

Don't forget: Catering for holiday parties is available.

Call 757-824-0009

LIVE Performance At the Mar-Va Theater

"Drive Out Hunger" Feeds 70 Families

 When Josh Nordstrom was growing up he probably never had to worry much about never having lunch money. Like most of us he probably never went without a huge dinner during the holidays.  Today, Josh Nordstrom, all grown up, is helping his community and is co-owner of "Drive Out Hunger". 

Josh, and those that assist him deserve a huge round of applause and pats on the back!

 POCOMOKE CITY -- "Helping feed people -- especially children, the elderly and those less fortunate than ourselves -- is perhaps the best way we can show how thankful we are this holiday season," said Joshua Nordstrom, public relations director at Midway Toyota in Pocomoke City and co-founder of the "Drive Out Hunger" project.

From left are Joshua Nordstrom, Nina Franceschi, Dale Cook and Dan Prescott.

This collaborative effort includes Midway, Tyson Foods, Dot's Food Pantry, Food Lion and the Lower Shore Family YMCA. Its mission is to provide a healthy, hearty meal to those in our community who may otherwise go without on Thanksgiving.

In its first year, the effort was able to feed 70 families in need --an estimated 250 people -- here on the lower Eastern Shore.

"All of us involved would like to thank the many people who contributed to the project this year," Nordstrom added, "and we hope to have the participation of many more businesses and individuals next year. Our goal is to make sure that none of our neighbors ever go hungry on Thanksgiving again."

Source; http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20111207/ESN05/112070323/-Drive-Out-Hunger-feeds-70-families?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Eastern Shore News|s

Open House On Sunday At the Costen House

OPEN HOUSE

at the

COSTEN HOUSE

206 Market Street

Pocomoke, Md

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 11, 2011

 Come celebrate the Christmas season amid lovely decorations and enjoy some complimentary refreshments.

NO ADMISSION CHARGE

And while you visit consider hosting your own party at the Costen House.

Reading A Christmas Tradition

Yes, Virginia

There Is A Santa Claus

Newsman Francis
Pharcellus Church
wrote the Sun's
response






Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

 Virginia O'Hanlon  "DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? "VIRGINIA O'HANLON. "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET." VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Source; http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/

TIME MACHINE Preview ... Holiday Time

This week a few holiday-related items and a preview of an upcoming 1897 article about Christmas Eve.

Check for the TIME MACHINE every Sunday on The Pocomoke Public Eye!

　
　
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Pocomoke Trucking Business Celebrates 70 Years On The Road

DID YOU KNOW THIS?

Rantz Trucking Company moved it's first trailer load on December 10,  1941.

Seventy years in the trucking business thanks to Jim

and Kenny Rantz.

Rantz Trucking Company has always been located in Pocomoke City, Maryland and is owned and operated today by KW Rantz.

Congratulations on 70 years in business and may you have many more! 

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'  !

Do You Have A Unique Christmas Tradition?

Here's a chance to win something for yourself just in time for the holidays!

COUNTRY BLOSSOMS is having a "Unique Christmas Tradition" Contest.

All you have to do is write down what Christmas tradition you have  that is the most unique and submit  it to Country Blossoms.

How difficult is that?!
So get going. 

The prize is a Christmas centerpiece and a $25.00 gift certificate! 

Send your unique Christmas tradition to Country Blossoms via their facebook page (see COUNTRY BLOSSOMS)  or hand deliver/ mail to:
Country Blossoms
130 Newtown Blvd.
Pocomoke City, MD.  21851

GOOD LUCK! 

Md. Police Chief Moves Big Ideas To Smaller City

Pocomoke City Police Chief Kelvin Sewell
Daily Times Photo

POCOMOKE CITY - Kelvin Sewell, in his time as a homicide detective in the Baltimore Police Department, was often confronted with murderers who cared not a whit about what he wanted, which was a confession -- or at least a lead.

Time after time, suspect after suspect: "We're at an impasse. He's slouching back in his chair," Sewell recounts in his book, "Why Do We Kill?: The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore," co-written with a reporter and published this year, after he'd left the force. "I'm asking questions that he's not answering, at least not truthfully. He's tough, stubborn; he's not afraid of me."

He had to devise a tactic to break the mental wall, and what he says he came up with is completely counterintuitive. " 'If you're so tough,' I say, 'recite the alphabet.' " They never see that query coming, he says; and it turns out every suspect he's asked to do this could not accomplish the task. "Even if I offered them straight-up immunity," he writes, "they could not string together the 26 letters that comprise the English language." The suspect is now off-guard, and the interrogation begins in earnest.

That's a stirring example of creativity in policing. Why bring it up? Because Sewell is the new police chief of Pocomoke City, a municipality less than 1 percent of Baltimore's size. He had been working in a leadership position for the Pocomoke Police Department for a year when, upon the retirement of Chief J.D. Ervin, he was tapped to take the chief's seat.

Sewell tells us he's thrilled to have the position, and loves living on the Eastern Shore. About people there, he said in an interview, "they wave to you. They say 'Hi,' even in their cars. You wave to somebody in Baltimore City, you might get shot."

And he intends to put in practice policing techniques he wishes had been deployed in Baltimore but weren't because of hidebound bureaucracy and -- he is blunt about this, in the book -- simple incompetence and lack of effort, on the part of both politicians and police officers. He acknowledges that some parts of the city see more drug sales than others, and he's putting more patrols in those places.

Source;  http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20111205/NEWS/112050332/Md-police-chief-moves-big-ideas-smaller-city

Chief Sewell has been the police chief of Pocomoke City for a week now and I've been wondering all week what he thinks about the peace and quiet in Pocomoke compared to the turmoil in the city. I spent almost a week there last winter and found within a couple of days and nights that Baltimore is NOTHING like home. Such a beautiful city, filled with things to see and do but I could not live there and quite frankly, I don't know how a dear family member of mine has lived there all these years and loves it.
　
　I couldn't help but notice that he has already put his policing techniques in place by reintroducing the bike patrol.
Maybe it has always been there and I just have not seen it recently but it is a great deterrent for crime.  Looking forward to any changes that may continue to keep Pocomoke City a safe place to live and shop.


Good luck to you, Chief Sewell. I am sure you will enjoy the Pocomoke area and find the people of Pocomoke
to be quite helpful.... and compared to Baltimore City - it's quiet!
(I also asked Santa to bring me a copy of your book)

THANK YOU TO OUR MILITARY..... PEARL HARBOR DAY

PEARL HARBOR

DECEMBER 7, 1941

70 YEARS

WE WILL NEVER FORGET
AND SHALL ALWAYS REMAIN GRATEFUL.

Thank you to each one of you.......

ACTIVE

Richard C. Brown, Jr., Air Force

Jacob Gibbons, SSgt. Air Force

Veterans

Lt.Col. Carlyle S. Harris, Air Force - Viet Nam POW


Jeremy W. Doyle, Army,  Scout Battalion 69th  Armor Regiment-
On second tour -Operation Iraqi Freedon -  KIA


David Greene, Air Force



Patrick A. Dize, Navy



Richard S.  (Steve) Lawrence, Army, VietNam



Rick Choquette, Army

Bruce Glenn Merritt, Jr.,  Navy
Here's what his mom had to say about him:
 ("MT2/E5/SS He served on the USS Kamehameha and the West Virginia from 1990-1994.

Those that might not know the navy meaning of the above they stand for missile technician, second class, E5 pay grade, sub surface qualified.

Both submarines were nuclear....the big ones. He has seen parts of the world we will never see, including Scotland! He was so young and did an amazing job! We will always be proud of him and thank him for his service to our country.")

Roy Woodrow Wilkins, Navy



James Walter  Morris, Navy



Orland E. Howard, Marines, Korean Conflict



Buddy Hughes, Army, Korea



William Byron Schoolfield, Navy, WWII Pacific Theater



Byron Dorsey Schoolfield, Army WWI

Jack Sipilia, WWII, Navy (Retired)

Billy Hall, Army, Vietnam (Deceased)

James W. Maddox, WWII, Army (Deceased)

Art Sexton, Corporal, Marines, Vietnam



John Carey, Rank E-4, Airforce

Richard  Hitchens, Army and National Guard, 1st Sergeant, Vietnam, Afganistan (40 yrs. later)

Larry Fykes, Coast Guard, Senior Chief, Desert Storm, Operation Iraq, Deep Water Horizon (Katrina)

Lawrence Tull, Airforce, Captain

Kenneth Tull, Airforce, A2c

James B. Maddox, Army National Guard, Vietnam and Desert Storm

Jason Harris, Airforce, 167 AW, Kuwait

Larry Wood, Navy

Paul Hill, Navy, Chief, WWII



Michael Hill, Navy

William Byrd, III Cpl E4, First Marine Brigade, Vietnam

Michael Coutu, Navy AZ3 (SCW)



Nicholas Jones, Marines, PFC

Cornell Ginn, Air Force, Master Sgt. E-7 Veteran of Foreign Wars

This is just a start.  There are so many more names out there.............PLEASE send them to me.  Help me keep this list of names of our brave American men and women growing  so everyone will know who they are and how proud we are. 

Please fly your flags and yellow ribbons!  Let the active military know they are in our hearts and NOT forgotten.

NEVER STOP REMEMBERING