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Memorial Day
We at Food for Thought thank and recognize all our veterans for their service and sacrifice. Today many of us will display American flags in honor and remembrance of our country’s veterans: Grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, friends, acquaintances, sons and daughters.
I invite you to leave the names of your veteran loved ones in the comment section below. We join you in recognizing and honoring our fallen and living veterans.
The north state offers the following Memorial Day events, all open to the public:
Sunrise until noon: The American flag off Bechelli Lane near Interstate 5 will lower to half-staff.
9 a.m. Monday:Veterans Memorial Hall on Yuba Street in downtown Redding
10 a.m. Monday: Lawncrest Memorial Park on East Cypress Avenue in Redding; Weaverville Cemetery on Odd Fellows Avenue in Weaverville
11 a.m. Monday: Anderson Cemetery at 2500 Cemetery Lane in Anderson; Oak Hill Cemetery at 735 Cemetery Lane in Red Bluff
noon Monday: Redding Cemetery on Continental Street in Redding
5:45 p.m. Monday: Northern California Veterans Cemetery on Gas Point Road in Igo
11 a.m. Friday: Wreath-laying at the Veterans Memorial Grove near the Redding Convention Center on Auditorium Drive in Redding
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Marko Greenberg U.S. Navy, 1941-1945
Don Chamberlain U.S. Marine Corps
Joshua Domke U.S. Marine Corps, 1999-2003
Thank you for your service and sacrifice.
Bruce and Doni Greenberg
Salvador M. Azevedo Jr. U.S. Marine Corps 1941-1976
Thanks Pops … Rest In Peace
A job will done. Thank you for your many years of service Dad
My dearest Doni & Bruce,
Freedom is never free… Thank you so much for this chance to honor and weep for our veterans - ALL of them!
* BOYER PHILLIPS
Born: 20, September, 1915, Middleton, CA.
Died: 11, March, 1975, Oakland, CA.
MSGT, US Army Aircorps World War II
Pacific/European Theatre Fighter Pilot, P-38 Lightening class
Service Start Date: 17, October, 1937
Service End Date: 9, April, 1947
Thanks Dad: (Oh the stories you told and the honor you showed… I miss you so…)
* GEORGE RICHMOND
1st SGT, US Army, 3rd Armored Division
(Battle of the Bulge hero and second allied tank to cross the Ludendorff brigde (Ramagen) under General Patten, under enemy fire, he received the Purple Heart for significant injuries after that decisive crossing.
Thanks Uncle George: (A true, distinguished fighter for freedom…)
* DAN BYSTLE
SGT, US Air Force (Black Beret)
Served honorably, under fire, Chu Lai, Vietnam
Thanks big Brother: (From one of the founding Pioneer families of Shasta County, Dan continues his love and peaceful service to family and homeland…)
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James Albert Davison
Born: Ireland
Died: Chico, California
Veteran of the Union Army, Civil War, 1861-65
James Albert Davison
Born: August 2, 1914, Red Bluff, California
Died: May 21, 1976, Igo, California
U.S. Army 1942-45, Italy Campaign
Charles Harry Rice
Born: Dec. 9, 1919, Sidney, Nebraska
Died: August 3, 1978, Igo, California
U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1941-1945
North Africa Campaign
Liberation of Paris
Battle of the Bulge
The story my mother told me was that she got a letter from my father in mid-summer 1945, telling her that he was to be sent from Europe to the China Theater, which was almost certainly a death sentence. She was living at that time in a small house on Willis Street with her dog Pogo. She was sitting on the sofa sobbing, when the dog came over and sat down beside her and laid its head on her lap, just wanting to be company, understanding that she was in great grief.
But in August of 1945 the events now simply known as Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place, Japan surrendered, and my father came home on the Queen Mary.
William “Grant” Caufield III U.S. Navy 2001-2007
Thank you for your years of service, especially the 10 months you spent at Sea aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln at the beginning of this Iraq war. I remain very proud of you.
Tsgt John Hodges…My dad was drafted during WW II at age 36 and served 3 years in the Army. His battalion was sent to Japan aboard am LST. I remember my mom putting a red star flag in the window in his honor. He returned after his enlistment but with bad memories and pictures of distruction to Japan.
Props on the picture. The one the Record Searchlight had was horrid.
Col. Gilbert A. Masden, U.S.A.F. (ret.), Pacific Theater, served 1942-1972
Distringuised Flying Cross
Ted Freeman Evans, U. S. Navy, Submariner Pacific Theater, served 1944-1946
Westley D. Johnson, U. S. Navy, Submariner, served 1987-1992