This page is dedicated to all of our
Hero's. If you have a hero send the information to me and I
will post it on this website. Its about time we honor all out
hero's. Send your hero's to the Webmaster
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We often forget about our Hero's until we really need them.
Take the time to Thank a Hero every day. Remember the unsung
Hero's and don't forget about the Hero's in all of us. The
generations today need more Hero's.
Mary Ann Matyjewicz
- She is more than a hero to me, she is my guardian Angel. She was
there for me when life chewed me up and spit me out. God sent me
an Angel and I thank him every day. What makes her a hero,
well she is a Girl Scout Leader.
You see she is one of the unsung Hero's, working to make life a
better way for your children. She has three troops with a total of
43 girls. She also works for a Special Education School where each
and every day special kids with special needs. She also runs a
Special Education Girl Scout Troop. In July 2005 I
underwent Quadruple Bypass Heart surgery and she was there every
step of the way. I've seen the wings as she came into my hospital
room. Almost one year later in July 2006, I had a Heart Attack.
She was there for me, angel wings spread out. If not for her I would not be here today.
-John
Clarence Matyjewicz - My Dad - My Hero -
It wasn't until I got a lot older that I realized how much of a
Hero he was to me. He raised six kids and worked hard to do it.
Times in his life were rough, but I never heard him complain.
Gary Granger,
BM1, USN
- What can you say he's my hero. Gary is stationed with Inshore Boat
Unit 22. He is also in one of the oldest rates in the Navy. They put
their life on the line every day. Inshore Boat Unit 22 just got back
from the Middle East after serving a 9 month tour. Gary and his wife
Jessica are both hero's of the younger generation, working hard to
make that American Dream come true.
General
Norman Schwarzkopf - born in Trenton,
New Jersey. He graduated from the United States Military Academy
in 1956 and earned a master's degree from the University of
Southern California School of Engineering in 1964. A
much-decorated veteran of numerous military assignments, including
two tours of duty in Vietnam, he first attained the rank of
general in 1978 and in October 1983 was deputy commander of U.S.
forces in the invasion of Grenada. In 1988 he was appointed to
head the U.S. Central Command. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in August
1990, he was responsible for planning and executing Operation
Desert Storm, the U.S.-led multinational campaign that liberated
Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War (1991). His autobiography, It
Doesn't Take a Hero, was published in 1992.
Admiral Jeremy
"Mike" Boorda was born on November 26,
1939, in South Bend, IN. He grew up in Chicago, IL and dropped out
of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17, in 1956. Jeremy
became the first enlisted sailor in U.S. history to rise to the
position of admiral. He attended Officer Candidate School in
Newport, RI, and was commissioned as an officer in 1962. Boorda
also received a bachelor's degree in political science in 1971
from the University of Rhode Island.
Boorda was the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Naval
Forces, Europe, during military and humanitarian operations in
Bosnia in 1993. In fact, he ordered the first airstrikes over
Bosnia. On April 23, 1994, Jeremy became the 25th Chief
of Naval Operations.
Boorda committed suicide by shooting himself in
the chest on May 16, 1996. It is believed that Jeremy committed
suicide after learning that Newsweek reporters had
supposedly uncovered evidence that he wore two unearned combat
ribbons for his participation in Vietnam. However, the former
Chief of Naval Operations at the time, Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, said
that he had personally authorized Boorda to wear those
combat ribbons. Boorda is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in
Virginia.
He was more that just an Admiral but a sailors
friend. I had the great pleasure of serving with Admiral Boorda on
a special operation and he is definitely a Hero and a personal friend.
Once again it shows what the media can do.
Vice Admiral James Bond
Stockdale USN, retired 1923
-2005 served on active duty in the
regular Navy for 37 years, most of those years at sea as a fighter
pilot aboard aircraft carriers. Shot down on his third combat tour
over North Vietnam, he was the senior naval service prisoner of
war in Hanoi for 7-1/2 years - tortured 15 times, in solitary
confinement for four years, leg irons for two.
Vice Admiral Stockdale holds 26
combat decorations, including two Purple Hearts, two Distinguished
Flying Crosses, three Distinguished Service Medals, four Silver
Star Medals, and the Congressional
Medal of Honor. He is the only three- or four-star
officer in the history of the U.S. Navy to wear both aviator wings
and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Died at the age of 81 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Senator
John McCain - In 1967, he was shot
down over Vietnam and held as a prisoner-of-war in Hanoi for five
and a half years (1967-1973) - Read More
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