A Neighbor’s Tribute to Veterans

A Highland Park neighbor’s tribute to veterans

If you would like to include a veteran you know and love or (one of yourself) please send me the photo rutheh(at) gmail(dot)con and I will add it to the gallery

This just in…..thank you Joanne Leonard Cohen reciting In Flanders Fields

Leonard Cohen

Lt. Colonel Kathryn Ingram

Colonels Rick and Kristin Foerster

Colonel Rose Miller Afghanistan 2006

Don Anderson and Ed Kichi Sept 1966
Phu Bai, Viet Nam

Don Anderson and Ed Kichi
Quantico, VA 2011 Reunion TBS-4-66

Mike Kichi USMC Sent by blog follower and friend and frequent commenter Toni Kichi

Martin H Cooper veteran World War II – European Theater –
(Sue Reinfeld’s father)

John E. Hilliard (1945) — John E. Hilliard Troop Transport 194This was a project I started and it is incomplete. I am hoping to receive more photographs of Veterans you know and love to add to the gallery.

?, Orv, ? and Joyce, CAB Halloween Party, 10-2008 — Orville Lee, 87 years old, who served in France during WWII. Orv is the heart and soul of our weekly retired group we call CAB (Coffee and Bagels). I hear he has beaten his sons climbing a rock wall recently.

Mike’s brother — Ed Kichi — 2nd from the left in the 2nd row. In above photo of the 1st Platoon D Co, 39th OCC

From Anne Hamilton- UK-

Charles Albert Kydd ” I thought Ruth might like the attached photo of my great uncle, the brother of my English grandmother (the one you met). Charles Albert Kydd was born in 1896. He went missing and I’ve also attached a document relating to this which I found in amongst my gran’s papers. Unfortunately I don’t know anything else – not even what regiment he was attached to.”

Thankfully he did survive the war and lived into old age!

To include those currently serving in the military This photo sent by Sally Nauer of her son’s unit (Jonathan Nauer) neighbors at Ft. Knox in the seventies

I hope you got the pictures of my favorite veterans – the first was my brother, Michael Cooper, who served in Vietnam in 1968 – Sue

Lt. Robert A. Bard, US Navy (22 yrs, 7 mos total service)

Email a photo of a veteran with name and information about service and I will add it to the gallery. rutheh at gmail dot comMy Uncle Alan Ray Hendricks (USA)

, Uncle Harold “Butch” Hendricks (USN) My grandfather Floyd and grandmother Mary Alta and my father Roy J Hendricks

and my son Mark

SIGNED INTO LAW MAY 26, 1954

Veterans Day. More than a day off from school. A day in November to honor all veterans- men and women in the military who have served. And the correct spelling “the attributive (no apostrophe) rather than the possessive case is the official spelling “ according to an article “Apostrophe Sparks Veterans Day Conundrum”. I had to look it up. WWII, on the left my father’s brother Alan Ray Hendricks who “observed his 28th bday by flying a bombing mission over Japanese-held Koror Island in a 7th AAF Liberator on which he is a gunner”.(old yellowed newspaper clipping) Received the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Who do you know who has served? Scan and email a photo of a veteran you know , along with name and service and I will post a gallery of veterans. Suzanne sent me her father-in-law and father and that sparked the idea. rutheh at gmail dot com

Bill Key — Suzanne Colvin- “I’m attaching a photo of my dad, shot in Italy, where he served. His name was William Key (1921-2005); he was a Captain in the 5th Army in Italy.

MY SIL’S Grandfather and Father

James’ Maternal Grandfather

(Grandson Charles’ Great Grandfather)

Charles Wade Emig Born: DEC 31, 1923 Coshocton, OH

James’ mother brought down a box filled with memorabilia

James’ father Charles (Chuck) served in Viet Nam holding grandson Charles 3 years ago

November 10, 2018November 11, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Air Force, ancestors, Armed Forces, Army, military service, Navy, November 11, service, tribute, United States Military, USMC, veterans 9 Comments

Remembering Nora

Nora Nucera Bell

A wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter.

Well loved.

A teacher, a neighbor, a knitter.

A reader.

A colleague. A friend.

I took this photo of Nora in my living room at the Greenfield Holiday Party years ago.

Her radiant smile spoke of her generous heart, her loving spirit, her sense of humor, her easy laughter. She loved her family with her all.

Nora was a loyal blog follower since the beginning of the blog 7 years ago and wrote emails in response to photos she especially liked.

Alaska. Baked Orechiette. The family.

She always had a positive word and expressed gratitude for so much.

This morning. fellow Greenfielders and all those who loved her, gathered together to celebrate her life at a lovely Mass of Christian Burial.

She will be missed.

We will remember.

March 11, 2017 by Ruth Categories: cars, Photography, Tribute to a FriendTags: family, friendship, Greenfield School, knitting, love, memorial, memories, photography, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Public Schools, postaday, tribute 17 Comments

Gallery of Veterans -November 11

Link to Gallery of Veterans

This just in…..thank you Joanne

Leonard Cohen reciting in Flanders FIelds

Leonard Cohen

November 11, 2016November 11, 2016 by Ruth Categories: Airedale Terrier and Friend, Photography, Veterans DayTags: military, photography, postaday, reblog, service members, tribute, US Air Force, US Army, US NAVY, USMC, Veterans Day, WWII 2 Comments

Look Who Arrived in the Mail Today

Happy 90th Birthday to the Queen of England today.

My sister sent me a package to cheer me. The unexpected box was waiting for me on the porch when I got home this afternoon.

My friend V was with me and got to share the experience and fun first hand. Vincie asked, “Who thinks to make such things?”

Check out Solar Queen 90th Birthday Edition by Kikkerland Design.

I had to video her waving so you could get the full effect. The solar panel is at the top of her handbag. No battteries necessary.

And here is how the real Queen spent her birthday today

April 21, 2016April 21, 2016 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: celebration, collectible, happy birthday, Happy Birthday Queen Elizabeth, humor, Kikkerland Design, photography, postaday, present, Queen Elizabeth, Queen's 90th Birthday, sister, Solar Queen, tribute 14 Comments

Remembering Jennifer Sara, Born February 26, 1982- Passed February 28, 1986

We had some fun neighbors on Lowe Street in Fort Knox, Kentucky.

The Army Housing had eight units and they lived on the end and we were in the middle. I can’t remember a single movie we saw together but we sure laughed a lot. Years later when we lived in Germany the whole family came to visit us and we have a video of that occasion.

My friend Sally found out she was expecting her son Jonathan when Mark was just a baby in 1976. Jonathan is headed back from his Army assignment in Korea and I know Sally is glad.

And somewhere in my house, I still have the cute birth announcement for their dear baby girl Jennifer, born February 26,1982.

Thirty three years ago.

This post is to honor and remember little red-haired Jennifer and all those who love her. xxooxx

March 3, 2015March 4, 2015 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Tribute to a FriendTags: angel, Army, birthday, celebration, Fort Knox KY, friendship, memorial, memories, photography, postaday, tribute 13 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

August 13, 2014 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Aladdin, Aladdin's Lamp, New York City, photography, postaday, Robin Williams, tribute, wordless wednesday 6 Comments

Memorial Day 2014 Photos from Upstate New York- Guest Blog

Across the nation there were parades, memorial services, taps sounding in cemeteries, and specific names of friends and family on Facebook, asking for us to remember a lost friend, family member and soldier.

I received these two photos from my sister where she is visiting friends, south of Albany.

Mark’s birthday was today so his tribute was up for most of the 26th but didn’t want Memorial Day to pass without a post acknowledging it.

Thanks Mary.

Some of the service member names engraved in bricks.

A wreath placed by the memorial stone.

Twenty four notes. Taps.

The Origin of Taps, The Bugler’s Cry by “Jari Villanueva, a former ceremonial bugler at Arlington National Cemetery”

(General Daniel Butterfield- July 1862)

May 26, 2014 by Ruth Categories: Guest Blog, PhotographyTags: Armed Forces, Bethlehem NY, bugle call, General Daniel Butterfield, holiday, Jari Villanueva, Memorial Day, music, origin of Taps, photography, postaday, remembrance, taps, tribute 5 Comments

Hungarian Nut Roll Slideshow

Today Jaclyn and her sister Shannon baked nut rolls together, carrying on family tradition.

Their mother, Theresa, passed last February. This post is to remember Theresa , those who knew and loved her and to send hugs to Jaclyn and Shannon as they are missing their mom, especially at Christmas time.

Theresa was one of the four sisters in this slideshow (baking the pizelles) showing the three sisters making nutroll in Pittsburgh- Linda, Georgeann and Theresa, while the fourth sister Marlene communicated via SKYPE in Virginia.

You might remember the previous post of the 15 greased nut roll pans where the retro recipe card is photographed in case you want to make them.

Marlene and I share grandchildren and her daughter Erika is married to my son Mark.

One of my favorite photos from long ago, taken by unknown photographer

Theresa their mother Marion, Bride Linda, Marlene and Georgeann

December 23, 2013 by Ruth Categories: Baking, Family, PhotographyTags: baking, family, Hungarian Nut Roll, kitchen, postaday, sisters, SKYPE, slideshow, traditional recipe, tribute, youtube 7 Comments

April Showers, Richie Havens and Here Comes the Sun

It was MIXED BAG (vinyl) in my dorm room in the early seventies. Over and over. Richie Havens sang Dylan better than Bob.

Here’s an email in response to the one I wrote in December.

Subject: A Message of Gratitude

Last Christmas Matthew was back from Croatia and we were sitting in Mark and Erika’s living room in Ohio, remembering the first Richie Havens concert I forced him to go to as a teenager. We saw him together years later in New York City at the Knitting Factory, too. Matthew and Aunt Mary braved a Connecticut snowstorm to see him together and sat right under him.

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Hi Ruth

Thank you so much for taking the time to send along such kind thoughts. I will make sure Richie sees your email.

Best wishes for 2013!

Leslie
Stormy Forest Productions, NYC

—–Original Message—–
From: ruthehendricks
To: stormyforestprod
Sent: Sat, Dec 29, 2012 3:50 pm
Subject: Message of Gratitude

This is a message for Mr. Havens as I sit with  my 32 yo son tonight (home from 
Croatia where he lives) listening together to RH on youtube.

When Matthew was 14 I forced him to go listen to a Richie Havens concert in 
Pittsburgh Pa at the Carnegie Music Hall.

Oh he was mad cause who wants to go anywhere with their mother at that point of 
their life?
We waited in the corridor afterwards and met Mr. Havens and my son said he emanated 
positive energy right out of himself into him. 

  Matthew saw him in concert at least six times after that and he said tonight 
that Richie Havens was able to communicate to his soul.  We saw him together at 
the Knitting Factory years later.

So powerful and I wanted to express gratitude for his musical gifts and these 
wonderful  loving memories we share of listening to Mr Havens music and energy.
Xxoo
Ruth Hendricks

Richie Havens RIP. Matthew and I spoke on SKYPE last night when we heard of your passing and we will always remember you and your music which touched our souls, deeply.

for Richie Havens Streaming Audio click here

April 23, 2013April 23, 2013 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Beatles, Bob Dylan, family, gratitude, Here Comes the Sun, memories, Mixed Bag, music, photography, postaday, Richie Havens, Spring, Stormy Forest Productions, tribute, Wonder Child, You Are So Beautiful to Me, youtube 7 Comments

Murphy the Airedale- A Family’s Best Friend

Murphy Joseph McGrath. Murphy passed today. He just turned 11. He was patient, loving, loyal, humorous and adored by everyone. What a personality!

It is a very sad day for the family.

If you’ve been following the blog you’ve seen his photograph many times. I swear he smiled for the camera.

He was one of the first posts on the blog, Murphy Waits for Michael.

So many of you expressed sympathy recently on the passing of Erika’s parents Italian Greyhound, Cleo. It’s been a hard month.

Today’s tribute is for Mark and Erika’s, Anna, Michael, Jack and Maura’s dear sweet boy- Murphy!

When Mark and Erika brought each of the babies home from the hospital, Murphy was there to welcome them into the family. Murphy was a pup before M & E got married. He was a loving and well loved member of the family. ( Erika would get mad at me if I called him “dog”)

There are no words to describe the sadness, the missing. You may remember the photos from his Tenth Birthday post last year.

Anna is nine now but here she is just home from Mercy Hospital