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Special people, neither POW or MIA, from all wars, who have touched our lives
and our hearts.

If tears could build a stairway,

and memories a lane,

I'd walk right up to Heaven,

and bring you home again.

William V. Niader
U.S. Marine Corps
Killed in Action 12 June 1945
Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
Semper Fi !

SSG Paul A. Sweeney
Alpha Company 3rd Battalion 3rd Special Forces Group (ABN)
KIA - Afghanistan 30 OCT 2003 - Operation Enduring Freedom
Paul was 32 when he died of wounds resulting from an ambush near Musa, Qalax, Afghanistan.

TTE John A. Wolos
351st BS(H) 100th BG, 8th AF
Passed 31 DEC 2003, age 86.
Stationed at Thorpe Abbotts during WW II, John flew 35 combat missions as a B-17 TTE with the famous Bloody Hundredth. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, among others.