Today's remembrance of American Veterans just added another item to my "TO DO" List...gather photos of those who served in the military.
Here are a few photos I recently inherited this summer.
Above photo: My Dad, Joseph Mickens served in U.S. Air Force, stationed in Okinawa. This photo is of him at age 17 at Fort Sampson in New York.
Clifford Mickens, I know he was stationed at Ft. Bragg at some point.
Leon Mickens served in Vietnam
The following are photos I scanned digitally back in 1998! They were TIF files, but thankfully Picasa can convert them to JPG.
My Great-Great Grandfather Stephen Tarpley who served the Confederate Army in the Civil War as a servant, he made breastplates and swords.
Great Uncle George Abbott who served the Battle of the Bulge and definitely suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Uncle Randy Mickens served in the Korean War (I think).
I feel blessed that so many of my relatives have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, I am pledging to more vigilant about honoring them in my scrapbooks and preserving their stories and their place in American history (Yesterday and Today)
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