Gold Star Mom Donates Trip to NY
Leslie Miller (Mother of Fallen Hero Army Pfc David Miller),donates 2 night stay at the Residence Inn Marriott in Saratoga Springs, NY. She also solicited donation of 2 guest passes to the Automobile Musuem, and $50.00 gift card From Scallions Resturant 44 Lake Ave
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 (518) 584-0192 www.scallionssaratoga.com
Gold Star parents will join Leslie in Saratoga for a great weekend.
We are trying to get airfare, the package will be offered at our April 9th event.
Bid on IRA HAYES the Horse
Folks, once again the boys from Tennessee have struck gold. On behalf of legends Charlie Daniels and Thurman “Doc” Mullins, the Let Us Never Forget Scholarship and Gold Star Families of SW Ohio are proud to announce the arrival of TP. Ira Hayes!
Ira is a registered American Paint Horse Association gelding. He was bred and foaled at Charlie’s Twin Pines Ranch in Tennessee. He was named after Native American Marine Ira Hayes , who was one of the Marines that raised the flag on Iwo Jima!
Ira was auctioned off at the April 9th Scholarship dinner. The highest bidder got Ira for $5700 dollars.
2 New Soldiers Die from Cincinnati Tri State
Pfc. Zachary Salmon, 21, was shot and killed Wednesday when his armored vehicle was attacked.
Salmon grew up in Hebron, Ky., and later moved to Tennessee. His aunt Christine Craig lives in Greendale, IN, and says Salmon was a vibrant young man who will be missed.
“He’s not going to be at our family functions,” Craig said. “It’s just that a hole that he’s going to leave because he is larger than life.”
WEST CHESTER – Marine Cpl. Lucas T. Pyeatt, the 24-year-old son of a West Chester Township couple, has died in combat in southern Afghanistan. A Russian linguist and radio operator for the Marine Corps, Pyeatt was the team leader of a six-man radio unit in the war-torn country, his friends said Monday. His parents, Lon “Scott” Pyeatt and Cindy Pyeatt, moved to West Chester Township in 2004. His sister, Emily Smalley, lives in Hamilton with her husband and children. Pyeatt’s father is retired from the Air Force and works for General Electric. Prior to living in West Chester, the family lived in England, Germany, Texas, North Dakota and California, but Pyeatt considered Newport News, Va. – where his family resided for 10 years and he graduated high school – his hometown, his sister said.
He was a member of the 2nd Radio Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force Headquarters Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force in Camp Lejeune, N.C., according to the Pentagon.
Cpl. Thea Smuckler, a friend and colleague in the 2nd Radio Battalion, said Pyeatt started boot camp in April 2007 with plans to be in infantry, but was injured in training and reassigned to the intelligence section, where he excelled in linguistics at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, Calif. He got a perfect score on his final Russian exam – “which is ridiculously hard,” she said.
Other military colleagues concur he was sharp as a tack, fun-loving and fully dedicated to the military; a great listener who was a friend to everyone he met. “Everyone was his best friend and I’m not lying when I tell you that,” said Lance Cpl. Lindsay Radisek of Cleveland, another linguist with the 2nd Radio Battalion. “Ninety percent of my friends (in the military) I met through him.”
Pyeatt was a leader at the Defense Language Institute in California by the time she began training there. She said he always appeared to be in full control of his circumstances and surroundings.
“He wasn’t easily shaken and always knew what to do,” Radisek said. “He was wise.” When she thinks about Pyeatt, she pictures him with cigarette in hand, sitting on his motorcycle. Radisek said he was so selfless he lent his car to a friend who had to move to Washington, D.C., for six months and relied on his bike. “Pyeatt was the most kind, generous person,” Smuckler said. “He was so unassuming.”
In a note she shared on Facebook, Smuckler recalled a conversation the two had when they lost a friend to suicide. Pyeatt said he would celebrate his life and not dwell on his death. “He told me that when he died he hoped it was protecting those he loved,” Smuckler wrote. “I never thought that would come to be … I cannot help being overcome by tears whenever I am reminded of the reality of it all. I still can’t believe that he’s gone. To have him taken so soon is nothing short of a tragedy.
Cincinnati Fallen Heroes 2011
February 6, 2011 by admin
Filed under Local Fallen Heroes, News
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Scotty’s Dockside Donates
January 24, 2011 by admin
Filed under Events, Sponsor News
Thank you Scott and Julie, Patrica
Nippert Jewelers Donates
Nippert Jewelers has put a challenge to all of those on Face Book . Please go to Nippert Jewelers and hit like. If we can get 1450 fans by Mar 1st they will donate a $800 bracelet & seats for the silent auction at the Yellow Ribbon Support Center’s Annual Never Forget Scholarship Dinner on Apr 9th. Help out your Gold Star Families! Please spread the word! THANKS! We did it, thank you Face Book Fans we made it.
Just to let you all know Walter Cohee bid $500. and got the braclet.
Charlie Daniels Donates for Auction
Charlie Daniels for the third year in a row is supporting April 9th Scholarship Fundraiser. In the past he donated fiddles, this year he is donating a nice colt or filly. Gold Star parents; David & Dawn Spencer (who are friends with Charlie) are making arrangements to bring the horse to Cincinnati, for our auction on April 9th at Let us Never Forget Scholarship Fundraiser. Anyone wishing to bid on it please contact David Spencer at 513-464-2499. More information will follow when all the details are finalized.
See invitation to April 9th Fundraiser on our site.
Gone But Not Forgotten* (Poem For Fallen Heroes)
January 1, 2011 by admin
Filed under Uncategorized
Many heroes fall during battle
this fight for freedom often costs
these men and women we send to foreign shores
often it these lives that are lost
but they will not be forgotten
we honor those souls that slip away
and know that they’ve become angels
In heaven, on this day
The memory of them lives on
as we sleep we see their face
the dreams seem so very real
we often imagine their warm embrace
God has given them free reign
to whisper gently to the trees
to glide effortlessly among the clouds
and dry your tears with a breeze
So as long as we are alive
we will hold them in our hearts
and as long as we can breathe
our heroes will never be apart
So as we bury you with honor
we will grieve, then heal & pray
and even though we’ll miss you you
we’ll be reunited in heaven one day
by Linda Racaniello
*Poem is repoduced as written by the author.
Let Us Never Forget Scholarship Fundraiser
You are invited to our annual “Let Us Never Forget” Scholarship Fundraiser April 9, 2011 at the Oasis Conference Center 902 Loveland–Miamiville Road Loveland, Ohio. This event is sponsored by Yellow Ribbon Support Center & Let Us Never Forget Scholarship Fund.
Reservations 513-831-1651 by April 1st
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. for the silent auction Program starts at 6:30 p.m. Dinner served at 7:00 p.m.
$50.00 per person. Table (seats 10) with name of sponsor–$600.00. Corporate Tables are available. Please ask for details.
Gold Star Parents and spouses are free.
Jack Cassidy CEO Cincinnati Bell will MC Anthony Munoz & RJ Vilardo will be our auctioneers These three great men will be sure to entertain you.
Please make all donations to :
Let Us Never Forget
P.O. Box 375 Milford, Ohio 45150
Three more Soldiers Killed in Action
They say it happens in threes, It is true again for Cincinnati Tri State:
Army Sgt. David J. Luff Jr. Died November 21, 2010 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom
29, of Hamilton, Ohio; was assigned to 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; died Nov. 21 in Tikrit, Iraq, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small-arms fire.
Army Spc. Jesse A. Snow
Died November 14, 2010 serving during Operation Enduring Freedom
25, of Fairborn, Ohio; assigned to the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.; died Nov. 14 in Watahpur district, Kunar province, Afghanistan, when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire.
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Luke Scott,19 of Peebles, Ohio; Adams County KIA in Afganistan the first week of December 3,2010.
assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; died Dec. 3,2010 in Helmand province, Afghanistan, while conducting combat operations.