This book was written for one purpose:
to preserve the history of a family whose service spans generations, wars, branches, and forms of sacrifice.

It is not a novel.
It is not embellished.
It is not dramatized for effect.

Every chapter is based on:

• firsthand accounts,
• family records,
• military documentation where available,
• newspaper clippings,
• known assignments,
• personal memories, and
• Internet and AI research of units, places and historical context
  
  

Where details from classified service or forgotten decades remain incomplete, they are presented with respect and caution. Where memories fill in the gaps left by silence, they are included honestly and without exaggeration.

This book does not pretend that every fact is perfect—memory, time, and trauma make perfect accuracy impossible in any family whose history stretches across global conflict.
But every word is written with integrity, with the intention to honor, not inflate, the lives described in these pages.

The intent of this work is simple:

• to tell the truth as it was lived,
• to preserve stories that would otherwise fade,
• to give future generations a clear understanding of the people they come from,
• and to ensure that the sacrifices—great and small—are never lost to time.
  

If there are errors, omissions, or details unknown today, they are not failures of research, but reflections of the very nature of military life. Many stories from Vietnam, Korea, and the Cold War went untold. Some were classified. Some were too painful to revisit. Some died with the men who lived them.

This book stands as the most accurate record possible with what was known, remembered, and verifiable.

For the children, grandchildren, and future generations who read this:
This is your history.
These are your people.
Their service shaped you before you ever took your first breath.

And now their story is preserved—faithfully, respectfully, permanently.