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Oldest WWII vet embodies spirit of 'Year of the NCO' - Gertrude Noone, the oldest surviving World War II veteran at 110 years
of age, is greeted by Army Secretary Pete Geren, during a ceremony in honor of Women's History Month and the Year of the
Noncommissioned Officer, March 31, 2009, in Milford, Conn. Noone served as a sergeant first class in the Women's Auxiliary
Corps, and was recognized as a metaphor for the strength of the NCO corps. Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army. Photo by Army Staff
Sgt. Matthew Clifton.
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Veterans Day Ceremony Presented by the United Veterans Council of New Mexico, Kirtland Air Force Base and the City of
Albuquerque held at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial, Albuquerque. November, 2009. Photo courtesy Candace E. Sanchez.
All Smiles - World War II veteran Douglas “Monroe” Mullican breaks out in a big smile as he talks to his canine visitors, Miss
Sophie with her owner Sheila Banks to the left and Sailor with his owner Sharyl Groscost. The two therapy dogs visit nursing
homes and schools as members of Love on a Leash Therapy K9s. They were among several dogs and their owners who visited
veterans at the Tut Fann Veterans Home. Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army. Photo by Kari Hawkins, Redstone Rocket Staff,
December, 2008.
Just prior to the start of the Air Force-BYU footballgame, Sept. 22, 2009,this video was broadcast in the BYU stadium in Provo , Utah . Later, the USAF Academy Superintendent, LtGen Gould, showed this clip to the faculty andstaff. He told everyone that BYU ran it minutes before the kickoff at the game. He was clearly moved by it, as were those who watched it. BYU is a class act.
Retiree Remembers Fallen - Army veteran Conrad Payne (center), USAG Schinnen Retiree Council president, presents a wreath at
the Netherlands American Cemetery. Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army. Photo by Thomas Budzyna (USAG Schinnen Public Affairs
Office).
More than 500 veterans who escorted the unclaimed remains of seven Iowa veterans to their final resting place at the Iowa
Veterans Cemetery line the procession route with American flags after providing a motorcycle escort for the remains. The
ceremony coincided with Des Moines Navy Week, one of 22 Navy Weeks planned across America in 2009. Navy Weeks are
designed to show Americans the investment they have made in their Navy and increase awareness in cities that do not have a
significant Navy presence. Photo courtesy (U.S. Navy. Photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Gary Ward. April 24,
2009.
John Patrick "Jack" Murtha, Jr. was an Eagle Scout, Business Man, US Marine Corps Veteran and an American politician. Murtha,
represented Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1974 until his death on
February 8, 2010.
A former Marine Corps officer, Murtha was the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. As a youth,
he became an Eagle Scout. He also worked delivering newspapers and at a gas station before graduating from The Kiski School, an
all-male boarding school in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania. Murtha left Washington and Jefferson College in 1952 to join the Marine Corps
and was awarded the American Spirit Honor Medal for displaying outstanding leadership qualities during training. Murtha became a
drill instructor at Parris Island and was selected for Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia. Murtha was then assigned to the
Second Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Murtha remained in the Marine Forces Reserve, and ran a small business,
Johnstown Minute Car Wash (which still operates in the West End section of Johnstown.) He also attended the University of
Pittsburgh on the G.I. Bill, and received a degree in economics. Murtha married his wife Joyce on June 10, 1955. Murtha left the
Marines in 1955. He remained in the Reserves after his discharge from active duty until he volunteered for service in the Vietnam
War, serving from 1966 to 1967, as a battalion staff officer (S-2 Intelligence Section), receiving the Bronze Star with Valor device,
two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. He retired from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Colonel in 1990, receiving
the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.
Murtha was admitted to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland after suffering from abdominal pains in December
2009 and had surgery to remove his gallbladder in late January 2010; a week later, he was admitted to the intensive care unit due
to complications from the surgery and he died on February 8, 2010. Survivors include his wife of nearly 55 years, Joyce, and
three children.
In this August 2009 photo, U.S. Representative Murtha, chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee of Defense, speaks
with Marines of 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, during a visit to Camp Lejeune, N.C., Aug. 12, 2009.
Photo Courtesy of US Marine Corps, photo by Lance Corporal Brian D. Jones.
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Australian slouch hat with "Rising Sun badge" (RSB) on display at the Veterans Day ceromony, November 12, 2007. Rio
Rancho High School, Rio Rancho, NM.
One of the mainsprings of an army is its esprit-de-corps - that spirit which gives a soldier purpose and the endurance to
carry on when others might give up. In the prolonged and bitter struggles of World War 1 and World War 2, the soldiers
of the 1st and 2nd AIF (Australian Imperial Forces) had this esprit-de-corps, and its focal point was a humble badge.
The so-called ‘Rising Sun’ badge, worn on the up-turned brim of a slouch hat, typified the Spirit of ANZAC - the
camaraderie of Australian soldiers to fight for the Crown and the British Empire. In 1902 a badge was urgently sought
for the Australian contingents raised after Federation for service in South Africa during the Boer War. The most widely
accepted version of the origins of this badge is the one that attributes the selection of its design to a British officer,
Major General Sir Edward Hutton, the then newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Australian Forces. Hutton had
earlier received as a gift from Brigadier General Joseph Gordon, a military acquaintance of long-standing, a
"Trophy-of-Arms" comprising mounted cut and thrust swords and triangular Martini Henri bayonets which were
arranged in a semi-circle around the Crown. To General Hutton the shield was symbolic of the co-operation of the
naval and military forces of the Commonwealth. The original design, which was created and produced in haste, was
modified in 1904. The badge show here carried a scroll inscribed AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH MILITARY FORCES and
it was worn throughout both World Wars up until 1949 when corps and regimental badges were re-introduced into the
Army. The ‘Rising Sun’ badge was originally entitled the General Service Badge but, it is now officially called the
Australian Army Badge. It will, however, always be referred to as the ‘Rising Sun’.
Photo by Rich Sanchez.
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