Memorial Day – 2012

Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetary

Remembering those veterans from our respective families who have since passed on (reposted from years past):

Bruce Henderson:

• Peter Anderson, USMC — My dear departed uncle Peter served with Marine Intel during Vietnam
• Ian Henderson, RAF — [my dear departed father] RAF pilot who served the crown during the Battle of Britain as well the far east as a flight leader. He lied about his age to join the flight corps and was a decorated Ace for combat action.
• Robert Zimmerman, USN — My dear departed step-grandfather served in the US Navy during WW2
• Howard Martin, USN — My biological grandfather was a pilot who died in WWII when my mother was just a child

Bruce Webster:

• John A. Webster, USN (ret.) — served in both WW II and Vietnam [my father]
• James Francis Webster, USN — served in WW II [my paternal grandfather]
• John Silas Fickes, CSM, USN — served in WW I, Mexican War (1920), and WW II [my maternal grandfather]
• John William Fickes, 1st Sgt., Co. A, PA Militia, 8th Reg. Infantry — served in Spanish-American War [my great-grandfather]
• James Edward Taylor, Pvt. Co. D, II PA Volunteer Infantry — Civil War [my great-great-grandfather]

God bless them, and God bless America, truly the “last, best hope of Earth” (Abraham Lincoln).

O beautiful for heroes prov’d

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country lov’d,

And mercy more than life.

America! America!

May God thy gold refine

Till all success be nobleness,

And ev’ry gain divine.

— America the Beautiful (3rd verse), Katharine Lee Bates

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