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Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 30, 2005

Page

3

Remembering their soldiers at Our Lady of Guadalupe

In Chicago's Our Lady of Guadalupe parish a granite monument honors 12 parishioners who went to Vietnam and did not return. Mary Flores will place flowers for her brother Joe and pray for John in the Korean War, then thank God for her grandson who survived Iraq. The vintage Catholic church has long sent youth to war, reflecting a community with limited blue collar opportunities and strong patriotism.

Chicago Mary Flores Joe Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish Vietnam John Iraq Flores Iwo Jima da Nang Baghdad Fallujah Charles Urdiales Urdiales Charles Urdiales Jr Alfred Urdiales Jr Joe Quiroz Ray Castro James Maloney Maloney Afghanistan

103 Year Old WWI Veteran Leads Memorial Day Ride

Lloyd Brown, 103, one of the last World War I veterans, plans to ride in a Washington Memorial Day parade to symbolize the remaining 30 living veterans. A Navy musician who patrolled the North Atlantic, he later re enlisted, served as a firefighter in DC, and now lives in Charlotte Hall, Maryland with daily check ins from his daughter Nancy Espina.

Charlotte Hall Lloyd Brown Brown Washington U.S Department of Veterans Affairs Maryland Washington Post North Atlantic New Hampshire Australia District of Columbia Nancy Espina Sen Thomas Espina

Soldier reflects on loss after helicopter crash in Afghanistan

Army Maj. Paul Suskie says choosing to fly on April 3 rather than April 6 haunted him after the 2001 crash killed 18, and losing two friends reshaped his Memorial Day perspective. He plans to return to Arkansas by mid June with wife Erica and children Paul Jr. and Lily, vowing to be a better person.

Little Rock Ark Paul Suskie Afghanistan Suskie Arkansas Erica Paul Jr Lily

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