PVT Wayne Dalton

Jul 6, 2019 | Marines

Healing Through Arts – Profile Wayne Dalton Private, USMC 1967-1969 – Vietnam I sat for 6 hours getting to know this United States Marine, Wayne Dalton, and it wasn’t long enough. We laughed, we shed tears, and I fully felt the struggles that he has endured. The...

Police Sergeant Paul H. Knisely

Jul 5, 2019 | Police, Uncategorized

Sergeant Paul Knisely and Patrolman Robert Goodrich drowned in Little Apple Creek while attempting to rescue several people whose boat had capsized on Saturday, July 5, 1969. Sergeant Knisley was survived by his wife and two children. We honor you, Paul Knisely....

MG Nathanael Greene

Jul 4, 2019 | Army

A major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War, Greene was the son of a Quaker farmer, also named Nathanael, and Mary Mott. One of nine children, he was born at Warwick, Rhode Island, on August 7, 1742. Though his father’s sect, called the...

Sgt Joseph F. Biber

Jul 3, 2019 | Marines

[June 29th] would have been Joe Biber’s 73rd Birthday. A 1964 graduate of Buchser, Joe was best known as a nationally ranked miler on the track team. After a year of junior college Joe enlisted in the Marine Corps and eventually became a member of Marine Force Recon....

NYPD Detective Luis Alvarez

Jul 2, 2019 | Marines, Police

[Last] month, retired New York police detective Luis Alvarez delivered a heartbreaking plea to Congress to extend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, which provides financial assistance to first responders who had developed illnesses after responding to the...