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[center:2wculw6i]A bronze life-sized memorial on pillars of Colorado rose granite will forever mark the ultimate sacrifice these men and women made. Situated in Lakewood town center in Lakewood, Colorado, the memorial is engraved with more than 100 names of Colorado's fallen firefighters. The fallen firefighters memorial will represent their deeds in dignity for all time. [/center:2wculw6i]

http://www.coff.us/index.htm

[center:3dy4b3sb]Emery J Ingham III [/center:3dy4b3sb]
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October ?, 2010
Age - 76 Military - Navy Rank - Corpson Unit/Location - N/A
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Ingham III, Emery J. I 76 10/03/1933 09/20/2010 Emery John Ingham III came into the world Oct. 3, 1933, and passed peacefully Sept. 20, 2010, at home surrounded by loving family.

Dad was a fourth generation Oregonian, a descendant of Oregon settlers who navigated the Oregon Trail to the Willamette Valley in 1846, and the only son of Dr. Emery C. and Mary Louisa Ingham.

As a boy, Dad would water his horse, Flash, at the elk fountain in downtown Portland. At 19, Emery first saw his lifelong love, Mary Jo, age 15, walking down Southwest Broadway and decided then and there that she would be his wife. Three weeks later they wed. They raised their family in a classic old East Portland home, where they lived the rest of their lives.

Read the rest of his story at: http://www.koreanwarheroes.org/ingham.htm

[center:2vc4vd2q]John B. McTasney [/center:2vc4vd2q]
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[center:2vc4vd2q]Date of birth: February 6, 1941
John McTasney Graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Class of 1963[/center:2vc4vd2q][center:2vc4vd2q] Air Force Cross Awarded for actions during the Vietnam War[/center:2vc4vd2q]
[center:2vc4vd2q] Silver Star Awarded for actions during the Vietnam War[/center:2vc4vd2q]
[center:2vc4vd2q] Legion of Merit Awarded for actions during the Peace Time Awards[/center:2vc4vd2q]
[center:2vc4vd2q] Distinguished Flying Cross Awarded for actions during the Vietnam War[/center:2vc4vd2q]

Read how this HERO received these medals at: http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=3590

1791 United States Bill Of Rights: The first 10 ammendments to the U.S. Constitution (Bill Of Rights), introduced by James Madison which limit the power of the U.S. federal government are ratified by three-fourths of the States, The Bill Of Rights protect the natural rights of liberty and property including freedom of religion, freedom of speech, a free press, free assembly, and free association, as well as the right to keep and bear arms.

Delegates to the Constitutional convention
The 55 delegates who drafted the Constitution included many of the Founding Fathers of the new nation. Thomas Jefferson, who was Minister to France during the convention, characterized the delegates as an assembly of "demi-gods."[18] John Adams also did not attend, being abroad in Europe as Minister to Great Britain, but he wrote home to encourage the delegates. Patrick Henry was also absent; he refused to go because he "smelt a rat in Philadelphia, tending toward the monarchy." Also absent were John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Rhode Island refused to send delegates to the convention.
Connecticut - •Oliver Ellsworth* •William Samuel Johnson •Roger Sherman
Delaware - •Richard Bassett •Gunning Bedford, Jr. •Jacob Broom •John Dickinson •George Read
Georgia - •Abraham Baldwin •William Few •William Houstoun* •William Pierce*
Maryland - •Daniel Carroll •Luther Martin* •James McHenry •John Francis Mercer* •Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer
Massachusetts - •Elbridge Gerry* •Nathaniel Gorham •Rufus King •Caleb Strong*
New Hampshire - • Nicholas Gilman •John Langdon
New Jersey - •David Brearley •Jonathan Dayton •William Houston* •William Livingston •William Paterson
New York - •Alexander Hamilton •John Lansing, Jr.* •Robert Yates*
North Carolina - •William Blount •William Richardson Davie* •Alexander Martin* •Richard Dobbs Spaight
•Hugh Williamson
Pennsylvania - •George Clymer •Thomas Fitzsimons •Benjamin Franklin •Jared Ingersoll •Thomas Mifflin
•Gouverneur Morris •Robert Morris •James Wilson
South Carolina - •Pierce Butler •Charles Cotesworth Pinckney •Charles Pinckney •John Rutledge
Virginia - •John Blair •James Madison • George Mason* •James McClurg* •Edmund Randolph* •George Washington
•George Wythe*
Rhode Island - •Rhode Island did not send delegates to the convention.
(*) Did not sign the final draft of the U.S. Constitution. Randolph, Mason, and Gerry were the only three present in Philadelphia at the time who refused to sign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights

Interesting bit of history. Isn't it striking how sensitive people were about their government and freedom after having finally won it? The same kind of invested passion does not exist today. There is a lot of lip service instead. We need only to look at what has happened over the decades in our Federal government. Sure people go where they are sent to fight in the name of freedom. Mostly it is to fight and die for other's freedoms whom we insist need to experience what we enjoy. Since America's revolution and fight for independence, there as not been a real defense or fight for personal freedom. So it seems many Americans rest on the loral and sacrifices of the distant past.

Boston Tea Party
(This iconic 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier was entitled "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor"; the phrase "Boston Tea Party" had not yet become standard. Contrary to Currier's depiction, few of the men dumping the tea were actually disguised as Indians.[1])

The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it.
The Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, which had been passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act for a variety of reasons, especially because they believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. Protesters had successfully prevented the unloading of taxed tea in three other colonies, but in Boston, embattled Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson refused to allow the tea to be returned to Britain. He apparently did not expect that the protestors would choose to destroy the tea rather than concede the authority of a legislature in which they were not directly represented.
The Boston Tea Party was a key event in the growth of the American Revolution. Parliament responded in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, which, among other provisions, closed Boston's commerce until the British East India Company had been repaid for the destroyed tea. Colonists in turn responded to the Coercive Acts with additional acts of protest, and by convening the First Continental Congress, which petitioned the British monarch for repeal of the acts and coordinated colonial resistance to them. The crisis escalated, and the American Revolutionary War began near Boston in 1775.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

[center:57dw8ucd]Eldon Wyman [/center:57dw8ucd]
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Age - NA Military - Navy Rank - Ensign Unit/Location - USS Oklahoma

Ensign Wyman was on the USS Oklahoma when it was destroyed at Pearl Harbor.
He was identified in September 2008 in a grave of unknown heroes.
October 24, 2008
DOD Release #742-08 September 4, 2008
Three Missing WWII Sailors Are Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of three U.S. servicemen, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

They are Ensign Irvin A.R. Thompson, of Hudson County, N.J.; Ensign Eldon P. Wyman, of Portland, Ore.; and Fireman 2nd Class Lawrence A. Boxrucker, of Dorchester, Wis.; all U.S. Navy. Boxrucker will be buried on Sept. 6 in Dorchester, and the funerals for Thompson and Wyman are being set by their families.


Read the rest at: http://www.wwiiwarheroes.org/wyman.htm And
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldon_P._Wyman

[center:37doqpap]Donald L. McFaul [/center:37doqpap]
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Donald Lewis McFaul,(20 September 1957–20 December 1989) was a United States Navy SEAL killed in action at Paitilla Airfield during Operation Just Cause, the 1989 US Invasion of Panama. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Navy Cross for his heroism during the battle while pulling another SEAL to safety. Only two Navy Crosses were awarded for 1989 operations in Panama. The USS McFaul (DDG-74) was named to honor him.

Read the rest at either site:
http://militarytimes.com/citations-medals-awards/recipient.php?recipientid=4080
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_L._McFaul

[center:1kcmvpuy]Keith E Essary [/center:1kcmvpuy]
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[center:1kcmvpuy]Dyersburg, Tennessee
January 8, 2009
Age - 20 Military - Army Rank - Cpl
Unit/Location - 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
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Killed in Maywand, Afghanistan, when their dismounted patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device.

See more pictures at: http://www.iraqwarheroes.org/essary.htm
More at: http://freedomquilts.net/2010/08/keith-e-essary/

[center:9esjfhea]Stanisław Wycech [/center:9esjfhea]
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Stanisław Wycech (June 27, 1902, Sadoleś – January 12, 2008) was, at age 105, the last Polish veteran of the First World War. At the time of his death, he was, at age 105, the youngest living veteran of the war. Wycech was underage when he enlisted in the Polish Military Organisation in 1917 aged only 15 and participated in the disarming of German troops on November 10, 1918. He did not participate in the Greater Poland Uprising due to contracting typhoid, but was also a veteran of the Polish-Soviet War. He resided in Warsaw until his death at age 105.
Read more from links at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Wycech

QUESTION, DOES ANYBODY READ THIS PAGE?
IF not I'll stop, it's time consuming, If so I'll be happy to continue. I’ll most likely continue, as these HEROES shouldn’t just drift away, into the dark books of history.