A very SAD day for Lexington Park and Leonardtown, Maryland, but also the United States and the entire world...
WWII and Korea HERO MSG Clarence 'Clancy' Lyall passed away a couple of hours ago at St Mary's Hospital, Leonardtown, MD.
Clancy was a member of Easy Co, 506th PIR. Our thoughts and love go to his wife Liz and to his family.
He will be missed. God Bless You Clancy, Currahee !
Filip
Yes, Filip, Clancy will be truly missed. He was a warm and wonderful veteran and I'm glad I got to know him, but alas, it wasn't for long enough. Sad to think yet another one of our WWII veterans will be unreachable... Always sad when I have to make a note about a passing in my contact list...
I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots.
Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone.
I've also never been in Cognito. I hear no one recognizes you there.
I have, however, been in Sane. They don't have an airport; you have to be driven there. I have made several trips there, thanks to my friends, family and work.
I would like to go to Conclusions, but you have to jump, and I'm not too much on physical activity anymore.
I have also been in Doubt. That is a sad place to go, and I try not to visit there too often.
I've been in Flexible, but only when it was very important to stand firm.
Sometimes I'm in Capable, and I go there more often as I'm getting older.
One of my favorite places to be is in Suspense! It really gets the adrenalin flowing and pumps up the old heart! At my age I need all the stimuli I can get!
I may have been in Continent, and I don't remember what country I was in. It's an age thing.
Monument to John Steele who was caught on the church spire during D-Day
Stained glass window in the chapel of Sainte-Mère-Église depicting the Virgin Mary and two paratroopers, one of which is John Steele.
JOHN COME DOWN FOR A WELL EARNED CLEAN UP...
On the night before D-Day (June 5–6, 1944), American soldiers of the 82nd Airborne parachuted into the area west of Ste-Mère-Église in successive waves. The town had been the target of an aerial attack and a stray incendiary bomb had set fire to a house east of the town square. The church bell was rung to alert the town of the emergency and townspeople turned out in large numbers to form a bucket brigade supervised by members of the German garrison. By 0100 hours, the town square was well lit and filled with German soldiers and villagers when two sticks (planeloads of paratroopers) from the 1st and 2nd battalions were dropped in error directly over the village.
The paratroopers were easy targets, and Steele was one of only a few non-casualties. His parachute was caught in one of the back steeples of the church, causing the cables on his parachute to stretch to their full length, leaving him hanging two feet from the ground on the backside of the church to witness the carnage. The wounded paratrooper hung there limply for two hours, pretending to be dead, before the Germans took him prisoner. Steele later escaped from the Germans and rejoined his division when US troops of the 3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment attacked the village capturing thirty Germans and killing another eleven. For these actions and his wounds, Steele was awarded the Bronze Star for valor and the Purple Heart for being wounded in combat.
Stained glass window in the chapel of Sainte-Mère-Église depicting the Virgin Mary and two paratroopers, one of which is John Steele.Monument to John Steele who was caught on the church spire during D-Day
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