| PHOTOGRAPHS |
| 3ID In Iraq-2003 |
| 3ID Old Photos in Iraq-2003 |
|
OIF3 - 3ID in Iraq 2005-6 |
|
3ID in Iraq
2007-8 |
|
3ID in Iraq- 2007-8- Archive Stories |
|
3rd Infantry Division Photos- WWI to 1941 |
|
3rd Infantry Division Photos- WWII |
| More
3ID Photos
WWII |
|
3ID Photos - Korea |
|
3ID Photos- Peacetime Cold War |
|
3ID Photos - Division & Society 1990-2004 |
|
3ID Photos -
Active Division & Society 2005-6 |
|
3ID Photos -
Active Division & Society 2007 |
|
3ID Photos -
Active Division & Society 2008 |
| 3ID Photos - Active Division & Society 2009 |
|
3ID Photos- Re-Enactors |
|
WWII Memoirs- 3rd Infantry Division |
|
d o g f a c
e s o l d i e r s A photographic journey of the Third Signal Co. of the 15th Regt of the U.S. Third Infantry Division- WWII by Denis Toomey |
|
WWII Memorial
and Arlington National Cemetery |
|
Calendar for 2009 |
|
August 10-23, 2009 65th Anniversary Battlefield Tour For the Society of the 3rd Infantry Division Italy, France |
| Sept 16- 20, 2009 90th Annual Reunion Society of the 3ID Clarion Hotel Springfield, MO Near Branson, MO |
All Rights Reserved
©Rich
Heller
1997-2009
3rd Infantry
Division Archive
All the Old News that Fits, We
Print!
If you can't find it on the front page or Current Events page, it's probably here.
We Are There
|
Florida Fallen Heroes
Allow me to introduce myself, I am the father of Pfc. Timothy J. Seamans, US Army, 3ID 69AR 1st BAT, CHARLIE CO out of Ft. Stewart, GA who was KIA on August 18, 2005 in Samarra, Iraq. I am the founder and President of the Timothy J. Seamans Memorial Foundation, Inc. dba Florida Fallen Heroes www.floridafallenheroes.org and our purpose and mission is to create, establish and help maintain the Fallen Soldier Monument at each home-town high school of a Florida graduate who have lost their lives defending the United States of America in our war against terrorism. In addition the foundation will honor all past alumni of these high schools who have also made the ultimate sacrifice in the defending the freedoms and liberties of this great nation we call America. These monuments cost $9700.00 each. We have been successful in raising enough money to place one monument in Jacksonville, FL.
On Friday, September 28,
2007, 7 PM our 1st Florida Fallen Heroes Monument was dedicated and
commemorated at Terry Parker High School, Jacksonville, FL. In
attendance were over 200 guest and visitors, among those in
attendance were the American Legion Riders from Post 283 and 316;
Beaches Honor Guard who rendered honors with 21 gun salute and taps;
our Master of Ceremonies Mr. Dan McCarty, Director of Veterans
Services, City of Jacksonville; and five fallen families from the
Jacksonville area. The monument is approximately 5 1/2 feet tall
with a red brick (symbolizing the bloodshed) walkway containing the
names of fifteen (15) fallen heroes, 13 Vietnam Veterans and two
Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans, along with three upgraded red
bricks honoring those still serving and as a reminder more names
could be added. The service was approximately 1 hour with
refreshments provided the Navy Wives Club Dixie 300. At the
conclusion we were interviewed by Channel 4 and Ms. Jennifer
Robinson of the University of Florida newspaper who has been
interviewing fallen families throughout Florida for her senior
theses. |
|
TO ALL, Dear Jim: Congratulations on your
success on having your Gold Star License Plate program approved by the
Florida House and Senate. You are to be commended for your efforts and time
that you have give to this project. Your deserve a big HOOAH for your
accomplishment. |
|
Special Attention to Florida Veterans Proposal for Gold Star License Plate for the State of Florida
Allow me to introduce myself, I am the father of PFC
Timothy J. Seamans, U.S. Army killed in action on August 18, 2005 in
Samarra, Iraq. I have designed a specialty Gold Star License Plate for the
State of Florida (see below). I am trying to gain support for this
proposal and I am asking all Florida Veterans and their families to contact
their legislators and urge them to support this proposal. Proposal
Pursuant to the requirements of the
Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, this letter serves to
formally notify you of my intent to submit a proposal to create a Gold Star
specialty license plate. The purpose of this license plate is to honor the
families of those killed in service during peacetime, act of war or
conflict. The surviving spouse of Florida residents who have been awarded
the Gold Star, or the surviving parents (if there is no spouse) and sibling,
may apply for a Gold Star License Plate. The money will be used to support
the efforts of the Lest They Be Forgotten Foundation (non-profit) with the
first one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) to be set aside. |
 |
|
Celebrating the Marne Divisions Birthday Click Here for Frontline Insert |
|
CONNECTICUT VETERANS WARTIME SERVICE MEDAL All Connecticut veterans with qualifying wartime military service are eligible to receive the Connecticut Veterans Wartime Service Medal. Since last fall, the Connecticut State Department of Veteran's Affairs has hosted invitation-only ceremonies during which veterans of all wars receive the Medal. It is the first of its kind that the state has minted since the end of World War I. The 270,000 veterans who will receive it are Connecticut natives or current residents who served in a war and received honorable discharges. All living war veterans from World War II to the current war in Iraq are entitled to the medal. The medal can also be mailed to the veteran's home. In order to receive the
medal, the veteran must meet all of the following requirements: 4. Submit a completed and
signed application form (CTMD VM-1) available online at
Click Here
for PDF printable Application Thanks to Martin Markley for this information. |
 |
|
You can retire your tattered, worn out and frayed
American flags without cost to you. Send your flags to the
Kitchen Table Gang Trust, 42922 Avenue 12, Madera, CA 93638-8866
and we will dispose of your flags in a proper and dignified manner
with full honors and dignity pursuant to the United States Flag
Code Section 8K. We have been doing this for he past seven
years. Our flag retirement ceremonies are held on Flag Day,
June 14th each year and are conducted by an all volunteer U.S.
Marine Corps Honor Guard led by GySgt. Dan Kelley USMC (Ret.).
|
|
New Museum Seeks Purple Heart Recipients The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is currently under construction in New York's Hudson River Valley at the New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site. Its mission is to collect and preserve the stories of Purple Heart recipients from all branches of the service and across the generations in an attempt to ensure that all recipients are represented. Their stories will be preserved and shared through exhibits, live and videotaped interviews with the veterans themselves, and the Roll of Honor, an interactive computer program preserving the stories of each individual. The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor the
first in the nation to recognize the more than 800,000 Americans wounded or
killed in action while serving in the United States Military. |
|
|
First Flight: Veterans Airlift Command
|
Wounded
veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have many
challenges ahead, but finding transportation shouldn't
be one of them. That's the view of a new nonprofit
group,
|
|
The Retired Enlisted
Association (TREA) is providing the Military Reunion Listings as a FREE
service to the veteran community. I search the internet looking for
reunions and then send requests for the information to the listed POC. I
sent 2,108 reunion organizations e-mails requesting information on their
2006 reunions, and unfortunately 25 % failed to respond. We have 1,398
listings on the calendar year 2006 listing. With the next listing
update, we will have over 600 reunion listings for calendar years 2007,
2008, and 2009. (The Society's 88th Annual Reunion in Colorado
Springs will be listed in TREA's next update on March 5th).
John H.
Moore, SMSgt, USAF Retired (1961–87) |
|
The Army Historical Foundation in
conjunction with the Nation Museum of the United States Army is seeking
to create a registry of those who have served and are currently serving
in the U.S. Army. Basic registration is free and can be done online by
going to
http://www.armyhistory.org.
If you or a loved one has or
is serving I highly recommend that you contact the Registry so that what
is here today will still be here tomorrow.
Respectfully,
Michael Wells
|
|
One of our Society members, Bill Dillon OP5, has started a website that will be of interest to all of you Korean War Vets. Here is the address http://www.vetsofkorea.com/ Contact Bill at
bill@vetsofkorea.com |
|
This January 28 2007 was a day of
remembrance at Holtzwihr, in the Colmar Pocket. |
|
New York Conspicuous Service Cross Any NEW YORK resident (living or deceased) who is a recipient of at least
one of the 19 the medals listed below may apply for the New York State
Conspicuous Service Cross. |
|
Veterans of WWII are now dying at a rate of
about 2,000 per day. The elderly parking lot attendant wasn't in a good mood. Neither was Sam Bierstock. It was around 1 a.m., and Bierstock, a Delray Beach, Fla. , eye doctor, business consultant, corporate speaker and musician, was bone tired after appearing at an event. He pulled up in his car, and the parking attendant began to speak. "I took two bullets for this country and look what I'm doing," he said bitterly. At first, Bierstock didn't know what to say to the World War II veteran. But he rolled down his window and told the man, "Really, from the bottom of my heart, I want to thank you." Then the old soldier began to cry. "That really got to me," Bierstock says. Cut to today. Bierstock, 58, and John Melnick, 54, of Pompano Beach - a member of Bierstock's band, Dr. Sam and the Managed Care Band - have written a song inspired by that old soldier in the airport parking lot. The mournful "Before You Go" does more than salute those who fought in WWII. It encourages people to go out of their way to thank the aging warriors before they die. "If we had lost that particular war, our whole way of life would have been shot," says Bierstock, who plays harmonica. "Every ethnic minority would be dead. And the soldiers are now dying at the rate of about 2,000 every day. I thought we needed to thank them." The song is striking a chord. Within four days of Bierstock placing it on the Web www.beforeyougo.us , the song and accompanying photo essay have bounced around nine countries, producing tears and heartfelt thanks from veterans, their sons and daughters and grandchildren. It made me cry," wrote one veteran's son. Another sent an e-mail saying that only after his father consumed several glasses of wine would he discuss "the unspeakable horrors" he and other soldiers had witnessed in places such as Anzio, Iwo Jima, Bataan and Omaha Beach. "I can never thank them enough," the son wrote. "Thank you for thinking about them." Bierstock and Melnick thought about shipping it off to a professional singer maybe a Lee Greenwood type, but because time was running out for so many veterans, they decided it was best to release it quickly, for free, on the Web. They've sent the song to Sen. John McCain and others in Washington. Already they have been invited to perform it in Houston for a Veterans Day tribute - this after just a few days on the Web. They hope every veteran in America gets a chance to hear it.
www.beforeyougo.us |
| Ft Stewart Museum Update | |
|
We have received the M113 that is a great part of the SFC
Paul Smith story and it is our latest large artifact for the museum here at
Ft. Stewart. It will take some work to display it properly and is now in the
hands of our competent Ft. Stewart vehicle restoration personnel who are
taking care of it with the honor and dignity that such an historic piece
deserves. Thank you for sharing and allowing me to share this with you. |
|
 This photo of Birgit Smith and Walter (Buck) Meeks is in front of the exhibit dedicated to SFC Smith. |
 LTC Tim Thomas and Birgit Smith and Kim Webster |
|
They are holding the Medal of Honor that Birgit brought in for us to see in keeping with her open policy of sharing Paul's story and keeping his heroic spirit alive. We were pleasantly surprised she brought the medal with her on a visit to the museum. |
|
 Walter (Buck) Meeks (museum curator) is on top the vehicle describing the elements of the April 4 2003 story to all of us who welcomed Birgit Smith to Ft. Stewart to view the vehicle. Now that she has seen it we feel confident that it is appropriate for the American public to view the artifact and it will find a home soon in the museum so that all can see it and conceive of one man's valor that it represents. |
|
 This photo of Nathan is the proud truck driver who delivered the vehicle to us unknowing exactly what he was carrying and only told it was important. Big tough truck driver notwithstanding he almost cried when he learned he had hauled this for the 3rd Infantry Division and to help us to tell the story of SFC Paul Smith. |
 Capt. Levine who is a chaplain here at Ft. Stewart translates into German for Birgit Smith's visiting family. |
|
3d Division Museum
Currently the Museum has gone
through a complete overhaul and is now welcoming visitors to the 3d
Division Museum. There have been several locations in the past that the
Division has been based and it is the Museum Curators intent as well as
the 3d Division Commanders intent to make the Museum a 3rd ID Show piece. |
|
 Our Medal of Honor Wall in the Ft. Stewart Museum honoring the 51 3rd Infantry Division Medal of Honor recipients. When the wall was built it would hold exactly 51 framed photos and since we know it is a matter of time until another 3rd ID (Marne Soldier) is awarded the nation's highest honor, we need two things: 1) For that soldier and all others to come home safely and 2) for us to build a new museum with walls large enough to accommodate our exhibits based on their valor and sacrifices....
For information on the 3rd Infantry Division contact: |
|
|
Society of the Third Infantry Division, |
|
|
|
To the Leaders and Representatives of Veterans Organizations who are in
support of a Cold War Service Medal: |
|
Army Overseas Service Ribbon My name is Robert A. Devito and I am a member of OP#5. I served with the 3ID from May 1972 to Nov. 1973 in a city called BAD Hissingen, Germany in the 2nd and 41st F.A. I was about 20-25 miles from what was called the one kilometer (1-K) zone, much like the DMZ Zone in Korea today. As it stands, myself and thousands of soldiers
who served in that theater of the world are not entitled to any
medals, ribbons, decorations, etc. We served in what many of us refer
to as a Dangerous Zone. If the Warsaw Pact Nations would have
attacked, we would have been one of the first units hit. There is no
Cold War medal or ribbon issued to Cold War veterans, only a Cold War
Certificate that was given to them. |
|
Cold Injuries/ Frostbite in Korea This message is for any
veteran who fought in the Korean War, especially in 1950-51, but not
limited to those years. |
|
|
|
Here's a website
for Veterans, including thousands |
|
Click Here for Ft. Stewart Family Readiness Groups (FRG) |
|
Gift Ideas |
Last Update
May 28, 2009
