Memorial Day 2011

There are many who have served. Many bear scars or rest forever in foreign soil as a result of their service. Many families are forever changed by the loss of these men and women. It is for these cherished national heroes that we take time this day to mark their graves and remember their names.

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Those who have been lost in the Global War on Terror.

In remembrance of those of my own family who have served...

PVT	John Balch		American Revolution
	Johan Joost Becker		American Revolution
CPT	Jonathan Bixby	Connecticut Continentals	American Revolution
Smith & Farrier	Francis Boole	17th Light Dragoons (GB)	American Revolution
PVT	Lawrence Broderick		Cold War
CPT	Orrin Lawrence Brodie		WWI, WWII
	Archibald Campbell		American Revolution
Seaman 1st	John Elton Davis	USS Princeton	WWII
SPC	Justin Lee Davis	10th Mtn	GWOT
PVT	Erasmus Dortch*	21st Alabama Infantry Regiment	Civil War
T4	John Clarence Dortch	ADA	WWII
CPL	Daniel Ford	6th Connecticut Regiment	American Revolution
	Horatio Grant	US Army	1823
PVT	Charles Henry Flint	H/194th New York Infantry	Civil War
	Jacob Heens		American Revolution
LT	Nathaniel Herrick	Frye's Regiment	American Revolution
MAJ	Ephraim Hildreth	Chelmsford County Militia
PFC	Gano H. Jewell*	2d Bn 116th Inf Regt	WWII
PVT	Hiram H. Kimball	10th Hvy Arty & E/69th NYSV	Civil War
1LT	Barney Alonzo Parslow	D/134th New York Infantry	Civil War
SGT	Donald Fancher Parslow	16th IN 1st ID	WWII, Korea
PVT/Drummer	Henry Parslow	1st and 3rd Regts, COLs Snyder,Pawling	American Revolution
PVT	Henry Parslow*		1812
QM SGT	Henry Parslow	2nd NY Hvy Artillery	Civil War
GEN	Freegift Patchin	Connecticut & New York Militias	American Revolution
Private	Chapman R Philen*	38th Alabama Infantry	Civil War
Artificer	Peter V. Race	15th & 50th New York Engineers	Civil War
CPT	George Richtmeyer	3rd Co. 15th Regt. Albany Cty Militia	American Revolution
PVT	Jacob Schaeffer	15th Regt Albany Cty Militia	American Revolution
Matross	Koert Van Schaick	CPT Barnes Artillery	American Revolution
	Adam Swart		American Revolution
LT	Adam Thayer	Massachusetts Militia	American Revolution
PVT	Pelitiah Thayer	Massachusetts Militia	American Revolution
2LT	Leonard Boole Van Cott*	119th NY Infantry Regt.	Civil War
1LT	Theodore Sedgewick Van Cott	71st NYVI	Civil War
1LT	William Hathaway Van Cott	102nd Regt US Volunteers	Civil War
	Jacob Van Dyke		American Revolution
PVT	Johan Joost Warner		American Revolution

* - died in service