The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month... remembering the veterans in our family, past and present!
Our ancestor Jonathan Fletcher, was 19 at the Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. Your great-grandfather, Chester Coleman, served in Mexico and France during WW I. Your grandfather, Delmar Davis, served in WW II. Your uncles, James Jackson, the 16 year old Marine taking Guadalcanal, 1942, and Sergeant Joseph Yakemonis, Air Force mechanic serving in both WW II and the Korean War. Your great-aunts, Eleanor and Ellene, working swing shift in the factory riveting bomber wings onto the planes! (I asked Aunt Ellene how on earth their father allowed two nineteen year olds to do this, and she said, "it was easy, we just threatened to run off and join the Navy!" we don't doubt it.)
And of course, hats off to our very own SPC Geoff M. Davis, home after a year serving in Iraq, and Sergeant Nathaniel A. Davis, linguist on active duty.
WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU.
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