NEED to KNOW!!!! These Heroes!!!

[center:2hjhscv9]Richard M Glidden Sr [/center:2hjhscv9]
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[center:2hjhscv9]Portland, Oregon
February 25, 2010
Age - 46 Military - Army Rank - Sgt Unit/Location -

Served in Iraq. Also served 8 years in the U.S. Navy. Died of medical complications.
1982 graduate of David Douglas High School in Portland, OR[/center:2hjhscv9]


Read more on him at: http://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=richard-michael-glidden&pid=140291621

[center:2p9ejebv]Yemen's 'Mother of the Revolution', Liberian president, peace activist share Nobel prize 'We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men,' committee chairman says[/center:2p9ejebv]
OSLO, Norway — The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee honored the three women "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."

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Tawakkul Karman takes part in a sit-in in Sanaa, Yemen Wednesday.[/center:2p9ejebv]

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Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee accepts an award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, May 18, 2009.[/center:2p9ejebv]

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Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the first elected female head of state in Africa. [/center:2p9ejebv]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44813127/ns/world_news/

[center:1y8vd0o1]Roy Joseph Sinnott [/center:1y8vd0o1]
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[center:1y8vd0o1]Osceola, Wisconsin
February 27, 2008[/center:1y8vd0o1]
Age - 85 Military - Navy/Army/Navy Rank - CPO Unit/Location - N/A

Mr. Sinnott was retired as a Chief Construction Mechanic for the Navy's CB's. In the Army he spent his tenure under General Patton during WWII. He soon joined the Navy to spend some time in Korea. His total service time was 35 years. He was born in August of 1922 and passed away at the age of 85.
Mr. Sinnott originally sneaked into the Navy underage and they kicked him out. He then enlisted in the Army and later returned to the Navy.
http://www.wwiiwarheroes.org/sinnott.htm

J.R. Martinez
From hospital to Hollywood: a Soldier's story
September 20, 2011 By Elizabeth M. Collins


WASHINGTON, (Soldiers Magazine, Jan. 26, 2011) -- In the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, appearance is almost everything and plastic surgery - to achieve the perfect body, the perfect face, and perfect skin - is commonplace if tabloids and TV shows can be believed.
So, as soap opera star J.R. Martinez of "All My Children" sees it, he fits right in. After all, he's had more than 30 surgeries. The only difference between Martinez and other young actors: Instead of getting a nose job or Botox shots from high-priced Beverly Hills surgeons, Martinez spent more than two years at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, undergoing skin grafts and treatments for burns that covered 40 percent of his body.

Read his story at: http://www.army.mil/article/50855/From_hospital_to_Hollywood__a_Soldier_s_story/ & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R._Martinez

[center:1dj3jjh3]George Edward Pickett [/center:1dj3jjh3]
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George Edward Pickett (January 16, 25, or 28,[1] 1825 – July 30, 1875) was a career United States Army officer who became a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his participation in the futile and bloody assault at the Battle of Gettysburg that bears his name, Pickett's Charge.

Read more about the man at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pickett

[center:2isnsjg7]Heroes: the Seabees
"...Something scored a direct hit on a Higgins boat jammed with Marines -- not a pleasant sight -- made you feel as if someone had kicked you in the stomach..."
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The 25th Naval Construction Battalion [/center:2isnsjg7]

On the thirteenth of September, 1942, the Twenty-Fifth Naval Construction Battalion was officially organized at Camp Bradford, Virginia. The enlisted personnel, who had completed their "boot training" at Camp Bradford, and the officers, who had trained at Camp Allen, were brought together and presented with the colors.
Shortly thereafter, orders were received that the battalion,minus one company, was to be attached to the Marine Corps. This left three letter companies in accordance with the Marine Corps table of organization.
On October 12, 1942, the battalion moved to Hueneme, California, where the necessary equipment and supplies were issued. After a short stay in Hueneme the three letter companies and headquarters company moved to Camp Elliot, San Diego, and were attached to the Marine Corps.
Company B, commanded by Lt. Thompson, who was later Officer in Charge of the Firty-Third Sea Bees, had separate orders to report to the Replacement Group, Fleet Marine Force. The detachment company was the nucleus of the Fifty-Third Sea Bees, who were also attached to the Marine Corps and whose travels nearly paralleled those of our battalion.
Upon arrival at Camp Elliot, the official name of the battalion was changed to the Third Battalion, Nineteenth Marines, Third Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force.
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Read the whole story at: [url]http://carol_fus.tripod.com/navy_hero_25th_ncb.html[/url]

[center:24rshtkc]Nathan R Elrod [/center:24rshtkc]
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[center:24rshtkc]Salisbury, North Caronlina
October 21, 2006
Age - 20 Military - Marine Rank - L/Cpl
Unit/Location - 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force
Camp Lejeune, North Carolina[/center:24rshtkc]

Killed while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq.

http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/elrod.htm
Read more by searching: Nathan R Elrod

[center:fn1qw4sr]China Incursion
(The Boxer Rebellion)
(1900)[/center:fn1qw4sr]
[center:fn1qw4sr]HEISCH, HENRY WILLIAM [/center:fn1qw4sr]
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[center:fn1qw4sr]Rank and Organization: Private, U.S. Marine Corps. Born: 10 June 1872, Latendorf, Germany. Accredited to: California. G. O. No.: 84, 22 March 1902. [/center:fn1qw4sr]
Citation:
[center:fn1qw4sr]In action against the enemy at Tientsin, China, 20 June 1900. Crossing the river in a small boat while under heavy fire, Heisch assisted in destroying buildings occupied by the enemy.[/center:fn1qw4sr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_William_Heisch
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=10901829

[center:lb4iufdd]William Henry Ashley [/center:lb4iufdd]
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1822 was a pivotal year in the Rocky Mountain fur trade: John Jacob Astor established the western department of the American Fur Company in St. Louis; Congress discontinued the Factory System; William Henry Ashley advertised for young men to trap the Missouri River to its source.
This ad appeared in the Missouri Gazette & Public Advertiser Feb. 13, 1822 and in the St. Louis Enquirer two weeks later.
TO: Enterprising Young Men:
The subscriber wishes to engage ONE HUNDRED MEN, to ascend the river Missouri to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry, near the Lead Mines, in the County of Washington, (who will ascend with, and command party) or to the subscriber at St. Louis.
Some of the best-known names in the annals of the fur trade responded to General Ashley's advertisement i.e. Jedediah Smith, David Jackson, Hugh Glass, Daniel T. Potts, and Jim Bridger. Three men often credited with being among the original Ashley men are Thomas Fitzpatrick, William Sublette, and Etienne Provost. Thomas Fitzpatrick and William Sublette did not go West with Ashley until 1823, and Etienne Provost was never one of Ashley's men. When Ashley reached the mountains in 1825, he met Provost in southeastern Utah. Provost and his men were Taos, New Mexico trappers.

Read the rest at: http://www.thefurtrapper.com/Mountain_Men.htm#Ashley
And at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Ashley
And at: http://www.nps.gov/bica/historyculture/william-ashley.htm
And at: http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/ashley-william-henry.html
Also see at: http://www.nndb.com/people/835/000082589/

[center:athz3dr8]Gregory "Pappy" Boyington [/center:athz3dr8]
[center:athz3dr8] [/center:athz3dr8][center:athz3dr8]World War II photo of then-Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington[/center:athz3dr8]
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[center:athz3dr8]Boyington shortly after receiving the Medal of Honor[/center:athz3dr8]
Boyington started his military career in college, as a member of the Reserve Officers Training Corps in which he became a cadet captain. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Reserve in June 1934, and served two months of active duty with the 630th Coast Artillery at Fort Worden, Washington. On June 13, 1935, he enlisted and went on active duty in the Volunteer Marine Corps Reserve. He returned to inactive duty on July 16 in the same year.[1]
On February 18, 1936, Boyington accepted an appointment as an aviation cadet in the Marine Corps Reserve. He was assigned to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, for flight training. He was designated a naval aviator on March 11, 1937, then was transferred to Quantico, Virginia, for duty with Aircraft One, Fleet Marine Force. He was discharged from the Marine Corps Reserve on July 1, 1937 in order to accept a second lieutenant's commission in the regular Marine Corps the following day.[1]
He was sent to The Basic School in Philadelphia in July 1938. On completion of the course, Boyington was transferred to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Group at the San Diego Naval Air Station. He took part in fleet problems off the aircraft carriers USS Lexington and USS Yorktown. Promoted to lieutenant on November 4, 1940, Boyington returned to Pensacola as an instructor the next month.[1]
Boyington resigned his commission in the Marine Corps on August 26, 1941 to accept a position with the Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company (CAMCO). CAMCO was a civilian organization that contracted to staff a Special Air Unit to defend China and the Burma Road. The unit later became known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG), the famed Flying Tigers of China. During his months with the "Tigers", Boyington became a flight leader. He was frequently in trouble with the commander of that outfit, Claire Chennault. As a member of the AVG 1st Squadron, Boyington was officially credited with 3.5 Japanese aircraft destroyed in the air and on the ground, but AVG records suggest that one additional "kill" may have been due to him. (He afterward claimed six victories as a Tiger, but there is no substantiation for that figure.) In the spring of 1942, he broke his contract with the American Volunteer Group and returned to the United States, where he was eventually re-instated in the Marine Corps.[1] Boyington wrangled a major's commission in the Marines, which were in great need of experienced combat pilots. He was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 11 of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, where he became Executive Officer of VMF-121 operating from Guadalcanal. While assigned to VMF-121, Boyington did not shoot down any enemy planes. Later, he became Commanding Officer (CO) of Marine Fighter Squadron 214, better known by its nickname, the "Black Sheep Squadron."[1]

Read the rest of his story at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappy_Boyington