Some Gave All

 

Robert Lee Aday, 30 March 1950 - 24 October 1969, in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam,

hostile, ground causality, SP4, Regular Army, 25th Infantry Division.

Army Sargent Russell L. Collier

Died 3 October 2003 in Taji, Iraq

age 48, of Harrison, Ark.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 206th Field Artillery Regiment, Arkansas Army National Guard, Russellville, Ark.; killed Oct. 3 when his unit, which was conducting traffic-control operations, was attacked by small-arms fire in Taji, Iraq

His Story...

                           One of Our Own

 

At first the news is distant and vague, like many others…

-       Another soldier gone

-       Dead in a far off, foreign land

But to us, this one is different,

            A familiar face on the news

-       He is a Local Boy

-       One of Our Own…

 

Another citizen soldier sent off long ago, with best wishes and Prayers...

-       to that distant, desert land

-       never ever to return

But to us, this one is different from the others

            Not a stranger from another town

-       He is a Local Boy

-       One of Our Own…

 

But in our hearts we know…

To Some One, Some Place

Each and Every One

-       Is a Local Boy

-       One of Our Own…

 

In memory of our own, Sgt. Russell L. Collier

killed in Taji, Iraq October 3, 2004.

 

            October 5, 2004

            Fleta Aday