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With Hope And Love
Remember me kindly
In the name of love.
Remember me brightly
On each star above.
Remember me flowing,
Softness and glow.
Remember love songs,
Each word I know.
Remember me rivers,
Sailing each stream.
Remember me nightly,
Fulfilling each dream.
Remember me, world
With all the above.
Remember me always
With hope and love.
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Sixguns
10-10-02, 05:20 PM
Jerry, thank you for remembering our fallen brother on the Home page of this site.
Lisa, I appreciate your poem and thoughts.
Sometimes we forget that everyday is a day in harm's way when we serve as Marines. I know that his family, both biological and Marine Corps, are overcome by emotions from the tragic loss of this one life. It is no easy task to deal with death. I imagine it to be most difficult for his parents and the Marines he served along side. I hope his contibutions and service are celebrated. Having just recognized the one-year anniversary on the War on Terror and with our upcoming birthday, I know he will be in my thoughts.
SF,
NamGrunt68
10-10-02, 05:55 PM
SHARP HAND SALUTE !!
USMC0311
10-10-02, 06:28 PM
Originally posted by NamGrunt68
SHARP HAND SALUTE !!
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Thank You, Lance Corporal Sledd, for defending our Country and protecting our Brothers
Barndog
10-10-02, 06:33 PM
Chesty, let our Brother know........
That regardless of the circumstances and political climate......
He is STILL our BROTHER, and WE WILL MISS HIM.
SAEPE EXPERTUS, SEMPER FIDELIS, FRATRES AETERNI
"Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever"
Originally posted by NamGrunt68
SHARP HAND SALUTE !!
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It appears L/Cpl Sledd was recently Promoted----Would do me proud to 'Pin' his new rank on this Marine.
Semper Fi Tony---
Preeesent, Arms !!!
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Marine killed in Kuwait lauded at Camp Pendleton, by Gregory
Alan Gross UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
October 12, 2002
Tony Sledd earned his second stripe this week as a full-fledged
Marine corporal. Sometime next week, he will be buried with it.
Even as his grieving family was calling for his Marine twin brother
to be sent home permanently from Okinawa, Sledd's comrades in arms
held a memorial ceremony at Camp Pendleton yesterday.
Several hundred Marines stood in formation on an athletic field, some
in the traditional forest-pattern camouflage uniform, others in the
newer "digital cammies," as their regiment paid tribute to Sledd.
Sledd, 20, was a lance corporal when he was killed Monday in Kuwait.
He and another Camp Pendleton Marine, Lance Cpl. George R. Simpson,
were attacked by a pair of gunmen firing AK-47 assault rifles from a
pickup. Simpson, 21, was wounded in the arm.
A prayer was said, a litany read, and a martial hymn sung in
murmuring, halting voices. A trumpeter from the 1st Marine Division
band played taps. The only other sounds were the buzz of insects and
the muffled booming of artillery practice in the distant hills.
Col. Joe Dowdy, the regimental commander, remembered Sledd as
someone who "declined a life of slothful ease," opting instead for
"a noble life, a life of service over self."
"We are the men who believe there is a special place on high for our
brothers who have fallen, never to rise," Dowdy said. "Corporal Sledd
was our brother. He has fallen, and we will not forget."
Beside Dowdy at the lectern stood the universal symbol of a U.S.
infantryman lost in combat - an M-16 rifle with its bayonet plunged
into the soft earth. A Kevlar helmet sat atop it, and a pair of
black combat boots stood on the grass below.
Behind the colonel, the wives of Marines from Sledd's 3rd Battalion,
1st Marines - "the Three-One" - sat beneath a red-and-yellow canopy,
some quietly weeping.
Attached to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Sledd and Simpson were
taking part in Eager Mace, an annual joint exercise with Kuwaiti
forces, as part of their regular six-month overseas deployment. The
two Marines, in the midst of urban-warfare training on Failaka
Island, were armed with blanks.
The gunmen, later identified as Kuwaitis, then tried to ambush
another group of training Marines, but instead ran into a Marine
security detail that shot and killed them.
The Kuwaiti government later declared the shooting a terrorist act
and said the two gunmen had ties to al-Qaeda.
Otis Willie
Associate Librarian
The American War Library
SLEDD, I NEVER HAVE NOR WILL I EVER FORGET U OR THAT DAY, PRIOR TO THE DAY WE WERE ALL DIFFERNT PEOPLE ALL OF US IN FIRST PLATOON ALL OF US IN LIMA, U KNOW SLEDD, I REMEMBER THAT DAY LIKE AS IF IT JUST HAPPENED EARLIER TODAY. IT WAS ONLY ONE DAY, A COUPLE OF HOURS, BUT IT WAS THE LOSS OF A TYPE OF INNOCENCE WE ALL HAD. YET COUNTLESS DAYS IN IRAQ JUST 6 MONTHS LATER AND SO MUCH CARNAGE AND SORROW AND PAIN AND HUNGER.. JUST A BLURR MAN BUT I REMEMBER PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT MORNING....
SEMPER FI...
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