My Tribute to our family
Who Served and are Serving Still
 
Designed by: Terry L. Weldon
Assisted by: Jerry D. Beasley 
 
 

 

" For those who fought for it;  Freedom has a flavor the Protected will never taste."

 

 




Roland Kilgo - Confederate States Army
1863 - 1865
 

 

                                                              

        Jerry "Smokey" Beasley                                   David Beasley           

United States Air Force
1959 -1980                                               1983  - 2008
 

 

Monty  Adams

U.S. Navy - 1960-1973


  

       
Don Lowe
United States Army
 
 
 
                
Ray Johnson
United States Air Force
1956 - 1979

 

  

Prayer for Soldiers

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us. Bless them
and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. I ask this
in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
Amen."
 

 

                 
 
                   
Jeffrey L. Weldon                                                 Terry L. Weldon
      USAF JROTC                                            United States Air Force
1985 - 1989                                                         1974 - 1994
 
 



             

Willie Parr
United States Army
World War One
 
 
 
For they are the ones who, at an age when life is boundless and experience limited, leave their homes and families and travel to foreign lands to take up arms on our behalf.
 
 
 
 
            

Sonny Kilgo
United States Army
1959 - 1962
and
United States Army National Guard
1977 - 1998
 

 

                      

Donnie Cunningham - Gideon MO
United States Army
 KIA - Vietnam Nov 1970

Three weeks in country

 

 

                

Bradley Pashia
2175th Military Police Company

 

  

Joe Smith

U.S. Navy

1976

 

 

                 
L.C. Burchell
United States Air Force
 
 
 
Harry Evans
United States Army 
 
                                                  

  Jim Vollrath                       Clara Kaiser                      John Vollrath        

                    United States Navy                  U.S. ARMY                     United States Navy

  1959 - 1963                       1946 - 1947                        1944 - 1945         
 
 

No amount of training has prepared them for what they must endure. And yet they stay...they obey, they endure, they fight on...they survive. When finally they return home, they are forever changed. Some outwardly, some in other ways.

 
 
 

      
Bradley Gregg
United States Air Force
 

 

Bud  Clark

United States Navy

 

Louis Barnes

U.S. Navy

1975

 

 

Three Generations of Military

 
 
                                              
    Edward E. Beasley            Danny W. Beasley            Kendall G. Beasley
   United States Air Force    United States Army        United States Air Force
1947 - 1950                          1982 - 2002                      Lt. in 2008

 
Now we must do no less than thank and honor them for doing what others could not, and welcome them home as the heroes they have become. To do less diminishes us all.
 

 


                              
  Marce Prewitt                                                     Wayne Prewitt
U.S. Navy                                                             U S M C
 1976 - 2006                                                                              


Donald Lee Gregory
United States Army

 

Roy  Dinkins

U.S. Navy

 


                          
David Shaw
United States Army Air Corp.
1942 - 1944
 
 
              
 Arlee Voyles
United States Army
1942 - 1944

 
                                                             
        Robert P.Owen                  Carmel BEASLEY Owen             Scott Owen
        United States Navy

           1965 - 1991                        1982-1989                            Now Serving 

 

 

 
                    
Travis Fetterer
United States Air Force
 


                  
 J.P. DuBois
United States Air Force
Now Serving
 

 

Freedom is Not Free
 
I watched the flag pass by one day.
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
and then he stood at ease.

I looked at him in uniform;
so young, so tall, so proud.
With hair cut square and eyes alert,
he'd stand out in any crowd.

I thought, how many men like him
had fallen through the years?
How many died on foreign soil?
How many Mother's tears?

How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many foxholes were soldiers'
      graves?
No, Freedom is not free.

I heard the sound of 'Taps' one night,
when everything was still.
I listened to the bugler play
and felt a sudden chill.

I wondered just how many times
that 'Taps' had meant 'Amen',
when a flag had draped a coffin
of a brother or a friend.

I thought of all the children,
of Mothers and the Wives,
of Fathers, Sons and Husbands
with interrupted lives.

I thought about a graveyard
at the bottom of the sea,
of unmarked graves at Arlington.
No, Freedom isn't free!

Remember this ..... and
               God Bless America
 
 
            
Jake Layne
United States Navy
 

 
A Father and Three Sons

                                              

      Eugene Layne                                                Jimmy Layne              
United States Army

 

 

                                            

Freddie Layne                     Rickey Layne

 

 


 
  

Larry Garner
United States Air Force
 
        
Cliff Bierbrauer
United States Navy

  

            
Don Gregory
United States Navy
1950 - 1954
 
 
 
         
                                          Ben Termin
                                           United States Air Force

                                          1963 - 1983 
 
 
 
 
 

                 
Harvey Baker
United States Army
1942 - 1945
 

         
 Derek Voyles
United States Marine Corp. Reserves


           
Carl Burchell
United States Army
1942-1945
 
 
 
            
 Gary "Rob" Robertson
United States Navy
1962 - 1985
 

 
Pauline Beasley, Georgia Beasley, Colette Weldon, Deaner Layne, Gladys Baker, Kitty Beasley, Debbie Gregg, Margie Fowler, Stacey Beasley, Pam Glenn, Jane Beasley, Joyce Burchell, Rollins, Marsha DuBois, Anisa Barnes, Sherry Newbold, Peggy Layne, Leona Beasley, Becky Owen

 
 
          
 Larry Weldon
United States Marine Corp.

 
 
                 
Travis Stanfield
United States Navy
 
 
 
 

                
Leon Beasley
United States Army
1942-1945



 

 

 

                                                                      

Charles Glenn                                  Mike Glenn

United States Air Force

                                                         1975 - 1998

 
 
 
 
 

Roger Barnes
United States Air Force
&
United States Navy
 

                    
 
 

                      

                                              Sue BEASLEY Schumer                                            

United States Army

 

 

       
                        

                  
Dean Newbold
United States Navy
1985 - 1988
 
 

    

Burnett Burchell
United States Navy



              

               Roy Rollins
               United States Navy

               1960-1966 and 1973-1992


    
 Alvin Layne
United States Navy
 1932 - 1952
 
 


 
 
"The Military Brat"
The children of the Military member has been known for years as the Military Brat.  However, most are far from being brats. They are taught to be Independent, Loyal, and most of all flexible.  Thay have to be able to pack, move, and make new friends at the drop of a hat.  They give up any stability in on the home front due to short notice assignments and suprise TDYs.  They are a special breed of person and for that I pay tribute to your devotion to your family and your country.  Thank You for making your Military  member's duties easier to perform because of your understanding.         
 
 
     
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