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Caring for the families of America's fallen heroes Founded: 1994 Mission: Provides comfort, care and resources to all those grieving the death of a military loved one. Type: Nonprofit 501(C)(3) Corporation. Veterans Service Organization Headquarters: Arlington, Virginia: Key People: Bonnie Carroll (President and Founder) John B. Wood (Board Chair)
More than 200,000 American heroes lie in their final resting places at the 26 overseas American military cemeteries that commemorate their sacrifice. Marble headstones in the shape of Latin ...
David Vernon Cox (November 27, 1966 – January 5, 1994) was a U.S. Marine who was found murdered in Medfield, Massachusetts. [1] Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play A Few Good Men and the 1992 film adaptation of the same name were based partly on events that Cox was a part of, while he was in the Marines.
Esequiel Hernández Jr. (May 14, 1979 – May 20, 1997) was an 18-year-old American high school student killed on May 20, 1997, by United States Marines in Redford, Texas, located approximately one mile from the United States–Mexico border. [1]
Dwight Jeffrey Loving (born c. 1968) was one of six US military personnel on death row until Barack Obama commuted his sentence to life without parole on January 17, 2017. . Loving, a private in the United States Army, was sentenced to death following his conviction for murdering two soldiers, working as part-time taxi drivers on December 24, 1
Maynard Harrison "Snuffy" Smith (May 19, 1911 – May 11, 1984) was a United States Army Air Forces staff sergeant and aerial gunner aboard a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in World War II who received the Medal of Honor for his conduct during a bombing mission over France on May 1, 1943.
Family members and people close to Zahau expressed doubt that her death was suicide. Her younger sister, Snowem Horwath, insisted that, "Becky did not commit suicide. My sister was murdered." [5] Her former trainer also stated that, "She was always happy [and] always smiling when she came in. I didn't see a problem or anything like that."
Headstone detail William R. Higgins' headstone in Quantico National Cemetery. In 1982 the situation in Lebanon started to become more chaotic and violent. [4] [5] [6] Three years before Higgins's kidnapping, William Francis Buckley, another retired American lieutenant colonel working for the CIA had been kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.