I sometimes get caught up in Facebook and forget that many do not have same....and things get "omitted" that should be here.
Last Saturday I took a ride to Scranton, PA. One of our KIAs was from there and we had no photo of him. Since his name was Murphy, efforts to find family went nowhere (Too many murphys!). The reason for my drive was that I saw that the "Travelling Wall" was scheduled to be there all weekend. I printed out our Murphy's Memorial page and put the three pages in a cheap frame...with a note attached that our Association was looking for a photo and family members who knew "B" Company's James Murphy...and left this at the wall under Murphy's Panel.
Yesterday, I got very positive results. A former high school classmate called me to tell me she would e-mail me a copy of his high school yearbook photo AND she gave me the phone number of one of his brothers!
I called Paul Murphy today and we had a nice chat about his older brother. I will be in touch with him and the rest of the Murphy Family to inform them of our memorial efforts...both on the website and at Fort Benning.
The new photo is in place on Murphy's memorial page:
http://www.ichiban1.org/pdf/Memorial/Murphy.pdfThe photo has also been sent to the VVMF web site....as have all our other existing KIA photos.
http://www.vvmf.org/thewall/anClip=291504