MILITARY SERVICE
"Proudly Serving Our Country"
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FRANK served in the United State Army beginning in 1967, serving two tours each in Viet Nam and Okinawa. A printing press operator with the Psycological Operations (PsyOps) division, he printed leaflets which were then scattered throughout the countryside by helicopter and airplane during the Viet Nam war.
He met and married Linda in September 1972 while stationed at the Oakland Army Base in Oakland, California. After completing 5-1/2 years of military service, Frank obtained an honorable discharge in March 1973.
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LINDA entered the Women's Army Corps (WAC) in 1971, and after receiving Basic Training at Ft. McClellen, Alabama she completed Advanced Individual Training (AIT) in Communications at Ft. Gordon, Georgia.
She was then transferred to her permanent duty station, Oakland Army Base in Oakland, California, where she was assigned to the base Telephone Office.
She met and married Frank in September 1972, and obtained an honorable discharge in September 1973.
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LOUIE joined the United States Air Force in 1992 after high school graduation, and went through Basic Training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas. He then received advanced training at Champaign, Illinois, prior to being stationed at F.E. Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Louie's primary training was as a missile technition, however he also participated in classified special projects. He was able to travel throughout the world during his time in service, receiving his discharge in 1996.
After leaving active duty Louie entered the Air Force National Guard. He was trained in Biloxi, Mississippi as a Satellite Communications Specialist, and was assigned to Camp Murray (near Ft. Lewis), Washington.
Louie was employed by General Electric and AT&T Wireless, and then was hired by the Government...at Camp Murray, where he continues to be employed today.
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DUKE entered the United States Army after high school graudation in 1994, and completed Basic Training, Advanced Training as well as being stationed at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma for four years.
Duke re-enlisted in 1998, and was transferred to Giessen, Germany in January 1999 where he was stationed for the next three years. While stationed in Germany, he was deployed to Kosovo in June of 2000 for several months.
Obtaining an honorable discharge in February 2002, Frank and Linda are currently enjoying having Duke back home with them.
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LEE, our godson, entered the Navy in 1997, and was stationed on the East Coast off the shore of Virginia. He extended while on a tour of Italy, and other countries, and is currently stationed in San Diego, California.
THE RAGGED OLD FLAG
I walked through a county courthouse square,
On a park bench an old man was sitting there.
I said, "Your old courthouse is kinda rundown,"
He said, "Naw, it'll do for our little town."
I said, "Your flagpole has leaned a bit,
And that's a Ragged Old Flag you got hanging on it."
He said, "Have a seat", and I sat down.
"Is this the first time you've been to our little town?"
I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag,
But we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old Flag."
"You see, we got a little hole in that flag there
When Washington took it across the Delaware.
And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott Key
Sat watching it writing 'Oh Say Can You See'.
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans
With Packingham and Jackson tuggin'at its seams."
"And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on through.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag."
"On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun.
She turned blood red in World War II
She hung limp and low by the time it was through.
She was in Korea and Vietnam.
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam."
"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,
And now they've about quit waving her here back home.
In her own good land she's been abused...
She's been burned, dishonored, denied and refused."
"And the government for which she stands
is scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.
'Cause she's been through the fire before
and I believe she can take a whole lot more."
"So we raise her up every morning,
Take her down every night.
We don't let her touch the ground
And we fold her up right.
On second thought I DO like to brag,
Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."
Written By Johnny Cash
We are truely a patriotic family, and are proud of it!
God Bless America!
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