Roland Edward Brunelle, grandfather
Served in the Navy in WWII; he was shot in an aircraft carrier, the USS Randolf, in Okinawa, Japan yet he returned home safely to our family.
David Roland Brunelle, uncle
Served in the army in Greece in the early 70s; he returned home safely but died in a motorcycle accident after he returned home.
Clifford Ronald Lotz, grandfather
Served in the Korean War in Washington, DC, Hawaii and San Francisco from 1950-1954.
[Pictured below on the black sand beaches in Hawaii.]
Thank you to all of the men and women who have and who currently do provide service to the United States of America.
Did you know... Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, which was first recorded to have been observed by Freedmen (freed enslaved southern blacks) in Charleston, South Carolina in 1865, at the Washington Race Course, to remember the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. Today, what is now known as Memorial Day, is a day of reflection and recognition of ordinary people who sometimes visit cemeteries and graves to honor their deceased relatives while also commemorating all U.S. Service Members who died while in military service.
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