Patriot Stories
Chapter 1919’s Patriots are combat wounded veterans from every battlefield (or at least every theatre of operations) where American troops have fought, from the first shots fired in WWII up to the present time. The personal experiences of these veterans are individually interesting and collectively awesome. Their stories, strung together, would be a wonderful part of American History. Biographical Sketches of some of our nearly 600 chapter members start on this page.
The Purple Heart is awarded for sacrifice, not for heroism; however, many who receive it were doing heroic service when wounded.
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ARMANDO YBARRA
Armando Ybarra, our most recently elected chapter Trustee, is not only unusual, he is unique among our chapters 550 Patriots. To start with, he is the only one among us that was wounded in the Oct 1983 terrorist truck-bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon...
BISHOP DAVIS (B.D.) McKENDREE
This survivor of the brutal conditions of the Japanese POW Camps in WWII never gave up his love of poetry, perhaps that helped him to survive. It is also a great wonder that, late in the war, he managed to survive three ocean trips on slow moving ships. In those days...
RANDY GREENE
Aug 2003 Inductee, Wall of Honor, Texas Commission For The Blind Randolph H. Greene was born in Blue Grove, Texas in 1923. When he was 14, his family moved to Lubbock where he graduated from High School and then worked for two years as a carpenter. He entered Army...
PATRICK M. REILLY
This Marine Corps veteran was severely wounded during the opening hours of TET-68 as his unit fought to hold a key river bridge on Highway 1. He sustained shapnel wounds in both arms and both legs with resulting loss of use of his right leg, and in the years following...
HORACE P. WILLIAMS
A Modern day "Buffalo Soldier" Horace Williams is a civilian employee working at Camp Mabry. He served two tours in Vietnam and was wounded at CU CHI on February 10, 1966 while serving in Company C, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry (Wolfhounds), 25th Infantry Division. As...
WALTER B. WALDON
Walter B. Waldon was born in 1919 in Detroit, Michigan. He spent most of his growing-up years in a Michigan farming family that lived through the great depression. When he turned 21 years old he joined the Army, entering service on August 6, 1940. Walter says, I...
ANTHONY J. (TONY) GEISHAUSER
A helicopter pilot delivers breakfast to a company of paratroopers, 35 years late, and the troops love him for it anyway. Who else but Tony could pull off something like that. In 1966, Anthony J. Geishauser was a helicopter pilot in Company A, 82nd Aviation Battalion....
MARCUS COHEN
Marcus was one of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. He was with them when they were rushed to Bastogne to block the German offensive in the Battle of the Bulge, and he was wounded there on Christmas morning, 1944. His real life experience closely...
RAYMOND L. McKEE, SR
Ray McKee is an Army Air Forces veteran and an Ex-POW who, for an extended period, endured tremendous torture and mental cruelty in addition to his painful FLAK and bomb wounds that went untreated for many days between his capture and the time he reached the relative...
HARRY G. DAVES, JR.
Harry Daves, Jr. was born in 1923 in San Bernardino, California. His family moved to Pelly, Texas (now known as Baytown) when he was a child. He attended school at Robert E. Lee High School in Baytown and tried to enlist when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was underage...
ROBERT E. O’MALLEY
Robert O'Malley, Medal of Honor recipient, was born to Irish immigrants in Queens, New York, and he grew up there in the city; part of a large family with children all coming of age at the time of the war in Vietnam. Bob was one of four brothers, all Marines, and all...
James S. “Jim” Hufnall
A TALE OF THREE CAVALRY TROOPERS James S. "Jim" Hufnall, La Grange, TX Weldon S. Hoyle, Olathe, KS (passed away 12-24-2014) Stanley M. "Stan" Jankiewicz, St Petersburg, FL Patriots, Chapter 1919 (ARMY, WWII, Pacific) Article January 2000 After many years in which two...