veterans-memorial-banner-version-for-webBTNAA to Memorialize 28 Alumni on July 15, 2017

Join your brother and sister alumni in honoring our alumni brothers who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country or who died while serving in uniform.

 Name

MI

 Last
Graduated or
Departed
 Service
Date
of
Death
KIA or
Died in Service (Blank)
 War Served
               
Leonard E. Pratt 1937 USA 7/10/1944 KIA WWII
Stanley R. Gross 1930 USAAF 8/18/1944 KIA WWII
Pete N. Guizzetti 1930 USA 4/18/1945 KIA WWII
Harold A. Lambert 1935 USN 2/21/1946    
James J. Van Ness 1945 USA 8/26/1950 KIA Korea
Robert L. DeFrier 1941 USA 11/30/1950 KIA Korea
Marvin O. Walters 1948 USA 12/12/1950 KIA Korea
Lloyd F. Strauser 1950 USA 1/26/1952 KIA Korea
Paul B. Nichols 1945 USAAF 1/31/1952    
William A. McWhorter 1927 USAF 8/25/1952    
Paul B. Vidock 1951 USA 10/15/1952 KIA Korea
John A. Zezulak 1947 USN 10/18/1954    
Robert J. Meckler 1942 USAF 6/30/1955    
Anthony H. Manemann 1936 USMC 2/10/1958    
Harold J. Rudd 1930 USA 10/25/1958    
David R. McQueary 1955 USMC 11/22/1958    
Ulysses S. Willis 1929 USA 1/19/1960    
Michael  P. Morales 1966 USMC 12/19/1968    
Thomas  A.  Hauserman 1967 USN 6/21/1969    
Stephen K. Masden 1964 USA 6/9/1971 KIA Vietnam
Walter C. Mitchell 1957 USA 8/27/1973    
Jack G. Andrallano 1969 USA 4/16/1974    
Eugene F. Walk 1968 USCG 10/28/1974    
David H. Smith 1972 USA 1/16/1975    
John L. Mobley 1971 USA 8/26/1976    
Thomas R. Welch 1972 USA 6/20/1977    
Perry T. Meals 1974 USAF 1/1/1981    
Kevin S. Swiat 1981 USA 11/22/1984    

Remembering Their Sacrifice

Every two years a solemn ceremony is held at the Boys Town Alumni Veterans Memorial to honor the many alumni who sacrificed their lives in the service of our country on the field of battle and while serving in uniform.  The BTNAA created the Alumni Veterans Memorial in 1991 and in 2011 added a granite wall and bronze plaques to recognize and remember the sacrifice of our brother and sister alumni.  Father Flanagan, tabbed "America's War Dad" during World War II kept in touch with his "boys" during the war and when notified of casualties remembered them as family.  That tradition continues as does the tradition of service to our nation. 

The names of 28 of our Boys Town brothers have been found through diligent research on the part of Jason Suibielski, '81, who is assisting the Alumni Office in updating the alumni database.  His help and dedication to this project is tremendous and is of great benefit to the Alumni Office and the BTNAA.  Please thank Jason when you see him this summer at Boys Town during the 33rd Biennial Alumni Family Reunion.
 
These new honorees will join 83 of their brothers who are already recognized for their sacrifice bringing the total to 121 names on this wall of honor.
 
Please join us at 10:30 a.m. on July 15, 2017 at the Boys Town Alumni Veterans Memorial as we honor their memory.  Remember them all on this Memorial Day Weekend.  For many of these alumni we, their brother and sister alumni, are the only family who will remember their sacrifice.