By Phil Roberts
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In World War I, Wyomingites who died in action numbered 468 of the 12,000 who served. During World War II, 1,095 Wyomingites died in combat or from war-related injuries. Some 35,000 men and women from Wyoming served in the war.
Vietnam War, 1965-75
(by year of death, with branch of service and hometown at the time of entering service)
1965
Carlton J. Holland. Casper, Army
Robert W. Grove, Casper, USMC
David G. Lucas, Rawlins, USMC
Alma J. Stumpp, Afton, USMC
Ernest E. Taylor, Kaycee, Army
1966
Robert F. Guthrie, Cheyenne, Navy
Craig S. Blackner, Lyman, USAF
Samuel L. Dellos, Worland, Army
Barry A. Hansen, Evanston, USMC
Gary E. Bartz, Cody, Army
Leonard D. May, Medicine Bow, Army
Philip O. Robinson, Sheridan, Navy
Michael R. Beck, Cheyenne, USMC
Weldon D. Moss, Ethete, USMC
Gilbert B. Bush, Laramie, Army
Douglas T. Patrick, Casper, Army
Robert L. Shuck, Newcastle, Army
James F. Barnes, Laramie, Army
1967
Curtis T. Ando, Powell, USMC
Norman L. Moore, Riverton, USMC
Alva R. Krogman, Worland, USAF
Pablo Patino, Powell, Army
Joseph L. Hart, Afton, USAF
Jerry D. Byers, Casper, Army
Dennis W. Smith, Basin, Army
Larry L. Warnock, Buffalo, Amry
Daniel R. Laird, Wheatland, USMC
George R. Harrison, Clearmont, Army
Raymond E. Benson, Glendo, Army
Walter Washut, Jr., Sheridan, USMC
William B. Esslinger, Cheyenne, USMC
Harold L. Gibson, Greybull, Army
Timothy J. Saunders, Jackson, Army
Kenneth L. Brown, Sheridan, Army
William B. Graves, Douglas, Army
Bruce A. Jensen, Green River, USAF
Lawrence D. Torrez, Cheyenne, USMC
Robert R. Rogers, Gillette, USMC
Merrell J. Clayburn, Jackson, Army
Terrance H. Larson, Cody, Army
Pedro R. Montanez, Lovell, Army
Douglas E. Rogers, Green River, USMC
1968
Orville D. Cooley, Range, Navy
Edward McNally, Jr., Cheyenne, Army
Stephen W. Stark, Rock Springs, Navy
William D. Selders, Cody, USMC
Dennis D. King, Green River, USMC
Elmer D. Lauck, Torrington, Army
Walter E. Handy, Casper, Army
Leslie J. Lantos, Ten Sleep, Army
Richard S. Brown, Laramie, Army
Frank M. Darling, Cheyenne, USMC
James E. Pantier, Laramie, USMC
Charles W. Reberg, Casper, Army
Vernon W. Nix III, Casper, Army
Richard L. Endicott, Casper, Army
Richard M. Martin, Encampment, Army
Allen L. Faler, Riverton, Army
Joseph A. Padilla, Cheyenne, Army
Gary D. Fox, Sheridan, Army
Kenneth W. King, Sheridan, Army
Robert E. Barnes, Casper, Army
Terry L. Fetzer, Cody, Army
Edward R. Braun, Cheyenne, Army
Charles S. Roy, Rock Springs, Navy
Richard P. Cazin, Evanston, Army
Bennett E. Evans, Green River, Army
Edward L. Lawton, Thermopolis, Army
Elton G. Anderson, Lovell, USMC
Dale W. Johnson, Auburn, Army
Donald L. Ford, Sheridan, Army
William J. McAtee, Hanna, Army
Henry E. Maul, Worland, Army
1969
Dennis B. Farris, Cheyenne, Army
Victor R. Landes, Cowley, Army
Donald B. Schroeder, Clearmont, Army
Richard J. Sweeney, Casper, Army
Edward B. Steele, Douglas, Army
John W. Koberlin II, Cheyenne, Army
James L. Barton, Greybull, USMC
Candelario P. Bustos, Rock Springs, USMC
Leroy R. Cardenas, Casper, Army
Joseph B. Walker, Lovell, Army
John W. Aldrich, Sheridan, Army
Lonnie A. Dykes, Buffalo, USMC
William M. Wilson, Boulder, Army
Robert F. Maurer, Green River, Army
Dennis R. Wartchow, Jackson, Army
Richard P. Powers, Powell, Army
Lester McCabe, Fort Laramie, Army
Larry R. Owens, Lusk, Navy
Craig T. Marrington, Gillette, Army
Albert O. Wayman, Jr., Evanston, Army
Steven Boal, Upton, Army
Richard T. Kastner, Casper, Army
Walis W. Garst, Weston, Army
Robert E. Romero, Rock Springs, Army
1970
Roger L. Scott, Powell, Army
Edward C. Haggerty, Riverton, USMC
William T. McCormick, Thermopolis, Army
Ernest C. Balland, Cheyenne, Army
Roy J. Snyder, Fort Washakie, Army
Joe W. Green, Buffalo, Army
Ronald R. Stewart, Glenrock, Army
Robert G. Crichton, Burlington, Army
Donald W. Chipp, Jr., Rock Springs, Army
1971
Thomas W. Skiles, Buffalo, Army
Richard E. Tabor, Cheyenne, Army
John A. Cukale, Jr., Rock Springs, Army
Earl E. McCarty, Meeteetse, Army
Benjamin E. Slagowski, Evanston, Army
Gary J. Fuqua, Cody, Army
Randall J. Glasspoole, Riverton, Army
Robert L. Morganflash, Moorcroft, Army
Stephen E. Slocum, Thermopolis, Army
Emil M. Miltnovich, Rock Springs, Army
1972-75
Dennis C. Cressey, Cheyenne, USAF
Harry B. Coen, Riverton, Army
Lawrence G. Evert, Cody, USAF
Korean War, July 16, 1950-Dec. 31, 1953
(all are U. S. Army unless otherwise indicated and alphabetical by last name, with county of residence or hometown if known)
Samuel L. Wolfe, Big Horn
Allen Anderson, Sheridan
Clifford E. Baker, Big Horn
Ted U. Barnes, Goshen
Kenneth R. Barnhill, Platte
Neil B. Baxter, Sheridan
Malcolm Lloyd Budd, USMC, Big Piney
Leonard W. Clark, Sweetwater
James E. Clay, AF, Laramie
Ray P. Cowdin, Carbon
Courtenay C. Davis, Laramie
Donald L. Dewees, Albany
Paul R. Diana, USMC, Newcastle
Anthony Domingo Duram, USMC,
Powell
Bill Elsom, AF, Cheyenne
Robert A. Finch, Fremont
Kenneth Finlayson, Fremont
Richard Friedlund, Washakie
Fred N. Garcia, Washakie
Joseph G. Garcia, Carbon
John N. Green, Sweetwater
Edward W. Harper, Sheridan
Thomas R. Harris, Sweetwater
Robert Hessenflow, Natrona
*Donald G. Hill, Fremont
Geroge B. Hittner, Carbon
John David Hoke, AF, Cheyenne
**John Lucius Horn, AF, Cheyenne
Roselio Jaramillo, Campbell
Kenneth C. Johnson, Fremont
James L. Jones, Park
Demaret Kirtley, Johnson
David N. Kuiper, Sheridan
Edgar J. Larson, Fremont
Robert I. Lewis, Sr., Park
Raymond J. Lieb, Platte
Charles E. Lunbeck, Sublette
Clinton McLaughlin, Uinta
Thomas Mitchelson, Sweetwater
Philip Patrick Neary, USMC,
Lance Creek
Camerino Perea, Albany
Clifford F. Pratt, AF, Cheyenne
Charles E. Robb, Campbell
Lloyd G. Rogers, Laramie
Robert L. Roszek, Carbon
Helmar O. Rusth, Park
Russell Everett Smith, USMC, Bosler
William Sonnamaker, Sheridan
John A. Swanson, AF, Torrington
Ervin John Taylor, USMC, Laramie
Maynard M. Thompson, Washakie
Clark M. Tilton, Sheridan
Edward E. Toner, Sweetwater
Darold D. Urbanski, Park
Pablo J. Vigil, Sweetwater
Freeman Wadsworth, Laramie
Elmer L. Wells, Crook
Leland Henry Wolf, AF, Cheyenne
List courtesy of Wyoming State Archives, State Parks and Cultural Resources Dept.
* Hill was the first Wyoming soldier killed in Korea, July 11, 1950.
** Horn was the last Wyomingite killed in Korea, Dec. 31, 1953
June 2, 2010
Memorial Day Address,
Lusk, Wyoming, May 31, 2010
Thank you for the kind introduction.
Also, before I begin my formal address, I'd like to thank the American Legion and VFW of Lusk for inviting me here today to give the Memorial Day address. It is especially meaningful for me, a native of Lusk, because my late father was a veteran from here who served in the South Pacific during World War II and several of my uncles also served, two of them from Lusk, in that war. As for myself, I'm a Marine Corps veteran although I never got beyond the coast of California during my service. Even though I was nowhere near a war zone, the experience had a considerable impact on my life. My thanks again for inviting me here to be part of this ceremony today.
On this day, we honor those who served.
We remember those who died defending freedom on the battlefields of Antietam, the Argonne forest, Normandy, Saipan, and North Africa.
On this day, we salute those who answered the country's call to fight our nations wars on the far-off islands of the South Pacific, in the fields of Europe, on the frozen hills of Korea, in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the deserts of the Middle East.
And, on this day, we thank those who cared for soldiers and sailors who suffered from the ravages of warthose who served on hospital ships, in VA medical wards, and in homes throughout the nation who cared for wounded servicemen and women and kept our nations promise to care for them as they cared for our country.
And on this day, we are reminded that keeping our democracy comes with a pricethat some wars must be fought to protect democracy and combat tyranny.
Yet, we also know that over the past two centuries, we, as a nation, have had our lapses. We've been misled into foreign adventures that continue to be costly in blood and treasure. Democracy cannot be imposed by military forcethat while we may be capable of freeing people from tyranny, we can't impose the concepts of rule of law and democracy on those who won't also fight for it for themselves.
Puritan leader John Winthrop, approaching the American coast those many centuries ago, stated how we ought to be that shining city on a hill-- as a country centuries later, that would demonstrate our democratic traditions and adherence to the rule of law and human rights. We must always consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill-- they eyes of all people are upon us.
That shining city served as an example for people everywhere. It wasn't the TV sets, Wall Street fortunes, or rumors of streets paved in gold that made us that shining city bringing people here from all over the world. It was from those concepts we put into practice--majority rule and minority rights; equal justice; equality of opportunity; and revolutionary human rights concepts of habeas corpus and presumption of innocencethose principles to which others everywhere aspire.
And, of course, we foster human dignity and democracy around the world only when we practice those principles at home--when we restore the protections guaranteed by the Constitution and that we, once again, are the shining city to which other people aspire to emulate. We must, once again, resolve to return to being the shining city on the hill.
Even in those rare times when our country followed falsely into conflict, it doesn't take away from the sacrifices of those who fought and died. These sorrowful incidents remind us to renew the tenets of the Constitution that make us the shining city on the hill. We must not compound the mistakes of war, foolishly entered into by curtailing the rights the Constitution, always has guaranteed.
On this day, we honor those who served in all wars.
So on this day, while we honor those who served, we remind those who represent us to walk the hallowed rows of crosses in military cemeteries (and many of the graves marked by flags in our cemetery here) and walk the halls of the veterans hospitals and see the effects of war remain indelibly imprinted on millions of families. We ask our leaders to read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and note the protections for all people and understand that it is through upholding those principles that we remain the shining city on the hill, admired by the world. Above all, they need to remember that war must never be viewed as the easy way to solve disputes and protect our nation.
On this day, we remember those who died for our country and those who suffered in its service. From their sacrifices, day to day, we are reminded of what they fought forthe American constitution and the values it protects--equal justice, due process, presumption of innocence, compassion for all of our fellow citizens.
On this day, we honor all of those who served.
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