Saturday, December 20, 2008

Who Served Uncle Sam?

I was thinking of all the great contributions our family has made for this country and how lucky we are that no one perished during their missions. My grandma, Stella, served as a WAC cook in WWII, stationed in New Guinea and the Philippines. And her husband, Chris, was a paratrooper stationed in France, where Joyce was born. Joyce in turn married Rick who was a member of our Air National Guard.

Aldo was a pilot in WWII. This man amazing survived a plane crashed. A copy of the article will be attached.

Gadget was in the Navy in WWII, although from what I hear he spent more time in the brig.
Then, Frank Caime went on to join the Navy, and the rest of the folks I know were a part of the services but I do not know all of their details. If you have any information on these folks it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Robert Garthright Sr.
Jennifer (Oaks) Rose’s husband, Michael
William Jones, IV
Evan Hanks


Since this was posted in our newsletter for March of 2008 I learned:
Emilio Torre, Maristella (Forney's husband) served in the Italian Merchant Marines for a few years & then went AWOL once arriving in NYC around 1920.
Raymond Torre served in the U.S. Army. He served in South Korea from 1955-57.

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