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Sunday, May 26, 2013
Say no to Memorial Day sales
Memorial Day To those who serve thank you http://tinyurl.com/o6msbgl
Eagle Archive: Remembering the Maine, and a local Spanish American War casualty
Eagle Archive: Community's history comes to rest at Westminster Cemetery
Eagle Archive: Chief ingredient of colonial cooking was hard labor
American Legion Miss Poppy 2012, marks Memorial Day
Meaningful march for Westminster's Memorial Day
Memorial service at McDaniel recalls Case as passionate educator, adventurer
Eagle Archive: For Memorial Day, we recall a fallen soldier who made sure we remembered others
Eagle Archive: Wampler's life of service made him an apt participant on Memorial Day
Eagle Archive: A history of change is a constant thing at McDaniel College
Eagle Archive: Big Baker Chapel hangs as an ornament of Westminster history
Charles Fisher Sr., 95, attorney and last surviving co-founder of Carroll Hospital Center, dies
Westminster's Matthew Seidler among honorees at Memorial Day observance
Remembering events of 10 years ago is a duty for future generations
Shellman House goes from historical to ornamental
Funeral services Jan. 17 for Westminster airman killed in Afghanistan
Friday, May 28, 2010
U.S. Army Capt. Christopher Jesse Miller, Jr., KIA VN 1966 http://tinyurl.com/2vkfljc
Just One of Our Fallen Heroes http://tinyurl.com/2vkfljc
May 26, 2010 Kevin E. Dayhoff
As this Memorial Day approaches, the Vietnam War has been over for 35 years, and yet for many of us; the memories of lost friends, and loved ones is indelibly etched in our minds. Hopefully, you and your friends, family and loved-ones will pause Monday to remember those men and women in uniform who have gone before us and made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms and our way of life.
Over 2.7 million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Of that number, 300,000 were wounded in action, and 75,000 were disabled. Of the 58,200 names listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, 1,046 are Marylanders who made the ultimate sacrifice in the Vietnam War.
Some we knew. Some we didn’t. But they were all someone’s son or father, daughter or mother, sister or brother or aunt or uncle – or a cherished childhood friend. Their faces have been silent for many years, but they all have a story to tell.
One of the stories is that of U.S. Army Capt. Christopher Jesse Miller, Jr., who died at the age of 34 on October 29, 1966, two months after he had arrived in Vietnam August 24, 1966.
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Sunday, May 21, 2006
20060521 Carroll Co. Vietnam Memorial
May 21st, 2006
Today I’ve been working on my next Westminster Eagle column and I stopped by the Carroll County Maryland Vietnam Memorial at Willis and Court Streets in
The inscription on the black memorial lists has the following inscription and names:
“This memorial is dedicated to mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, wives, husbands, sons, daughters, lovers, friends and most of all dreams of the men and women “from Carroll County” who risked it all in Vietnam.”
Steve Mason, Poet Laureate V.V.A
1966
Ronald Kenny, February 1966
Christopher Miller, Jr., October 1966
Carl Egolf, December 1966
1967
James Byers, January 1967
1968
Russell Amoss, January 1968
Russell Milberry, January 1968
Michael Kidd, May 1968
John Feezer, July 1968
Muriel Groomes, November 1968
1969
Joseph Oreto, April 1969
Frederick Magsamen, May 1969
Franklin Underwood, Jr., June 1969
1970
James Zumbrun, January 1970
Joseph Blickenstaff, Jr., December 1970
David Steger, December 1970
1971
Herbert Mulkey, Jr., March 1971
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Peter Drabic POW September 1968 – March 1973.
Names on the Carroll County Maryland Vietnam Memorial in Westminster 05/21/2006 - ked