Article Contributed on: 5/29/2006 2:26:26 PM
Memorial Day has come, a time which for the nation is one set aside
to remember our fallen in war, though for many they do so for the
rest of the year and their lives as well. For an historian like myself
it is a duty of paramount importance to ensure those Goldenites who
made this sacrifice are remembered. Their names, as a whole, are
not listed anywhere beyond posts like this, and it continues to be my
hope they one day will be permanently recognized in the community
from which they were called into service.
Forty of these 42 will be remembered soon at the Colorado Freedom Memorial, while the first two are already remembered upon the memorial in front of the state capitol. Of many on this list painfully little is known, for some nothing beyond their sacrifice itself, and I encourage anyone to share what they know so history may remember them better too, for Memorial Day above all is a day for remembrance. Here, to remember, are the names of those Goldenites who have made the supreme sacrifice:
CIVIL WAR (UNION)
James A. Dawson
Daniel Miffitt
WORLD WAR I
Arthur Bengson
Lyman Fred Lovely
Charles Vere Neely
Albert Edward Shepherd
David Williams
WORLD WAR II
Max O. Beaty
Irwin D. Blankenship
Robert H. Blankenship
Hubert Marvin Bussert
Cyrus Coyle
Allen Arthur Davis
Robert Charles Eggleston
Melvin Wallace Evans
John A. Farrington
Donald E. Goodrich
Lorenzo Sherman Harris
David Henry Helps Jr.
Charles Albert Jaycox
Donald Darrel Jerred
Ralph Keeler
James Stough Miller
Clarence Johanas Norby Jr.
Marcus Lyndon Ostlee
Eveart L. Ostrander
Charles Raymond Pyle
Walter Ernest Ramstetter
Billy W. Spieles
Melvin C. Steele
Ross Gailon Van Hooser
Benjamin Presnall Wood
VIETNAM WAR
Ronald Dean Layton
Michael Charles Odell
Norman Douglas Peery
Jerry Len Phillips
Michael Gregory Scherf
Raymond Vincent Stolpa
Michael Walter Warren
Thomas Hansford Williams
John Paul Wright
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
Henry C. Risner