Mississippi XI

.I apologize for this being posted late

Every time I come around to write something from/about Mississippi, I feel as if a circle has completed. If you follow along here, you know that Mississippi was the very first state I visited back in 2009. It was not intentional at the time, but I happened to accompany my wife on a business trip she had for her work

We stayed in Biloxi and on her way to her destination she drove through Ocean Springs and saw the Mississippi state memorial and that was the beginning of a journey I had talked about for years.

I had hoped to get about three years out of the project and here I am 17 years later still trying to honor those who served.

If you click on Mississippi on the left side of this page you will see many pictures of those who were lost, but who are not properly identified. Now, with further research and new resources I can change that.

Today, I will feature a few heroes from Armory, MS and will be able to give them the honor they deserve,

Clyde Garth

PFC Garth, like so many, has very little info available. I have raged about this on many other posts, so will spare you today. He was lost to "small arms fire" in the Tay Ninh Province on October 26, 1968.

Roger Guest

SGT Guest was lost at Long An on August 26, 1969, to " hostile small arms fire."

David H. Harlow

Sgt Harlow was lost in the Quang Ngai Province on March 31, 1970.

while reading the very little I could find, I ran across a quote from a friend of Sgt Harlow's. She said, " My blind Americanism was never the same..." 

This struck a chord with me and made me wonder for how many of us is this a truth?

R.I.P to these and the 58,284 listed on The Wall.

Next time, on February 22nd, we will return to Missouri to honor a few who were lost from the state, so join me there, as usual at 9:00 am. 

If you are following along at all, you will have seen that a number of you, like Joan from Wisconsin, Tony from Texas, Mike from Maryland, Ron from Florida, Tim from Virginia, Molly from Florida, Colleen from Pennsylvania, Elli from Maryland, and Peg and Ray from Florida, among others, have responded to my request to send me memorials you have seen in your area or where you may have traveled. I even got one from Ireland! These submissions help expand the knowledge of how we have remembered the men and women who served and/or were lost in 'Nam and you help to honor them. If you have any such photos, I would love to see them. Please send them along to the email at the left and I will gladly share them here.

I hope all those listed here will encourage you to send along photos and join the group.