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The day started out with a raw misty rain, however this was the day that many of us Marines had waited for. The weather would not be a factor for us, as the Marines who assembled had been on missions from the hot sands of Iwo Jima, the frozen Chosin in Korea, and the jungles of Viet Nam to the deserts of Iraq.
This past Saturday my honey and I got married after nine years of being together. My son just graduated boot camp on Nov. 5th of 2008. He is currently in North Carolina at Camp Lejuene. It was a nerve racking time for me because I did not know whether he would be able to come home for my wedding. He is my only child and I am a single mother. Since he was little it has always just been him and I going it alone but we managed to get by with the help of the good Lord and my awesome family. I just could not imagine getting married with out him. Originally we had the date set for the 18th of April but as fate would have it the Marine Corps had other plans for him. He was unable to make the original date and at the last minute we had to change it to the 11th. This was a set back and some family members were unable to attend because of it but hey, my Marine made it and to me that was all that mattered. He has not been enlisted long enough to be a hero yet but I am no less proud of him, he has came a long way in life and being there at the wedding to walk me up the isle, meant more to me than life itself. I wanted to share with you a photo of a proud momma and her new Marine.
My husband died 10 weeks ago suddenly from a heart attack. He was breathing and then he was not. The ER doctor told me he?d been beyond saving before I could start CPR. I am bereft and the quick notice I sent Sgt. Grit in no way conveyed what he was, had sacrificed, or what he meant to me. He had asked me that, if he died first, just “post a little notice in Sgt. Grit; nothing big, just so someone out there who remembers my name will know I’ve gone ahead.”
Hey Sgt. Grit,
Thanks for your welcome newsletters. We are happy customers of your outstanding merchandise. Our youngest son,Lcpl Davin, is a grunt with 1st Marine Div 1/1, and now on a MEU overseas. We are all very proud of his being a part of our fine USMC. He is the first Marine in our “Navy” family. My dad became a CPO aboard USS Forster, DE-334 during WWII. They saw action in the Mediterranean with the Luftwaffe. Also, my mom’s cousin was a Naval Aviator. and retired as a CDR. So, I was destined for the Navy. I grew up with “sea stories”, going aboard many ships during Fleet Week in San Francisco Bay and watching Navy Log, and Victory at Sea as a youngster on TV! Well, I enlisted in the Navy out of high school 1966. I was on various destroyers, and shore duty in Wash. D.C. Naval Station, at BuPers, (Naval Annex) in 1967-68, as a YN3 in the Aviation Detailers dept. Got a call from a surface officer trying to find out how to get his orders changed….. He was to report to the USS Pueblo !! (it had just been captured by N. Korea) When the two Lt.s nearby my desk asked who had called…. I told them and they both said, that was one lucky officer! Here are 2 photos of our sons, Eddie age 22 and Lcpl Davin age 19, taken last year when D returned from deployment in Al Anbar, Iraq. The other photo was taken 1989 with Davin in his “Navy” dress blues ! He’s traded them in on Marine Dress Blues now!
Thank you for your interest in the photographs from 28 March 2009. They are from the
Medal Of Honor Day Celebration which the Albert E. Schwab Detachment, MCL, Tulsa, Oklahoma honors annually.
These photographs are of the wreath laying at Floral Park Cemetery in Broken Arrow on March 28, 2009 despite the snow storm.
Thought I too would send you a pic of My wife’s father, myself and my youngest Son. My Father in-law was a Marine Raider in WWII. He served with the “Carlson Raiders.” I served in the early 1980’s during peace time. So no combat for me but loved every moment of the Corps! My son just graduated from boot camp in November 2008 and is now in Florida waiting for his MOS schooling to start! One VERY proud family to be serving our great nation as we have been over these last three generations.
