POW-MIA Memorial - Portsmouth NH

In 2011 for Veteran's Day, I posted the names, birth and death dates and service information for soldiers who died during World War I and who are memorialized here in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. My fellow blogger, Heather Wilkinson Rojo, inspired me then and continues to inspire me now with her Veteran's Day Transcription Project, a digital memorial of the men and women from New Hampshire who have served our country. This is my contribution for Veteran's Day 2012. 

On the corner of South Street and Junkins Avenue there is an often overlooked memorial here in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It is tucked away a bit downhill and toward the back of the small park.

The stone toward the front is dedicated 

"to all who served."

On its top are medallions for the different United States service branches; Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard and Air Force.

POW-MIA You are not forgotten.

"This stone is dedicated to all 

POW/MIA's from New Hamphsire 

from all wars and acts of aggression 

against this great country."

Following are all names listed on this memorial:

Vietnam

Alloway, Clyde D.

Badolati, Frank N.

Burnett, Sheldon J.

Ganley, Richard O.

Hemlich, Gerald R.

Mulleavey, Quinten E.

Page, Albert L.

Pearson, William R.

Sullivan, Robert J.

Korean Conflict

Ackley, Phillip W.
Ashley, Francis A.
Bostford, Phillip A.
Brennan, John C.
Buckley, Arthur D.
Bullock, Elmer T.
Charles, Madison F.
Curley, George A.
Dick, Myron G.
Dubay, Gerald L.
Dunham, Leland R.
Flanders, Henry C.
Fleming, Frederick E.
Fletcher, Robert S.
Frazier, Reginald E.
Griggs, Benjamin J.
Hamlin, Elmer R.
Hedman, Robert S.

Hesseltine, Herbert A.
Hill George N.
Jordan, Paul H.
Kelley, John M.
Kendall, Warren O.
Labonte, Arthur R.
Leblanc, Ronald L.
Ledoux, Theodore W.
Robert H. Malloy [sic]
Mills, Bruce R.
Morin, Fernand, A.
Pelletier, Joseph N.
Richard, Elmer P.
Ritter, Wallace F.
Robillard, Joseph A.
Russell, Ernest F.
Sidney, Alfred H.
Smith, Harry S.

At the bottom of the memorial:

"The only thing that's worse 

than being a POW/MIA 

is to be a forgotten POW/MIA."

Dedicated by Squadron #6
Sons of the American Legion Portsmouth
November 2004

You are not forgotten!

Respectfully, 

Jennifer

If you have any questions, or would like a larger version of one of these images, please leave a comment or email me at jshoer [at] reconnectingrelatives [dot] com. 

Today and Every Day

Thank you. Thank you to those who have served, those who have fought and those who have died. Thank you today and thank you every day. 

Last week my husband and I took some Android phone photos of gravestones at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Bristol, Connecticut. Most were still covered by snow from the storm that caused more than a week of power outages in the area, but we found Bubba's gravestone and the gravestone of his maternal grandfather, Edward Victor Grace. 

Both of these images were inspired by a tutorial I saw this week in Photography and Food on Veteran's Day on the Weekly Photo Tips blog by Scott Kelby, a military veteran. I used Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Scrappy Gen

Let's Remember!