Kiandra DeSenna ilovefootball77@gmail.com Foster RI U.S.A Thank you for your service I'm in 8th grade and my social studies teacher is dedicated to making sure we remember and honor all veterans. So two weeks ago he assigned us a project to research a vietnam veteran. I got Thomas Joel Smith as my veteran to research. I wish he was alive so I could thank him for he's service Jan 19, 2012
Garnet Jenkins garijen@bresnan.net Grand Junction Co ~ Rest In Peace, CWO Thomas Joel Smith ~ In Remembrance of your Courage, Service and Dedication to our Country and for Freedom. Rest in Peace and know that you will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. I am the sister of Sgt. David Dickinson. who also made the Supreme Sacrifice in Vietnam in 1967... 'THE SOLDIER, ABOVE ALL OTHERS IS REQUIRED TO PERFORM THE HIGHEST ACT OF RELIGIOUS TEACHING ~ SACRIFICE.' General Douglas MacArthur May 20, 2009
Rosalind Willett nanarosiew@aol.com Classmate NKHS Class of 1963 30 Cooper Lane East Greenwich RI 02852 USA THANK YOU It has been 45 years since we left high school, but you have not been forgotten. I am grateful for your service to our country. You made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. I thank every veteran and soldier I see for their service. My Dad was a WWII veteran who served in the 3rd Armored Spearhead Division and I am so proud of that. I know your family is very proud of you. Aug 18, 2008
Holly E. Hollstein Reynolds hollyer@aol.com Classmate, North Kingstown Sr HS C 3342 W. Bijou St CO SPGS CO 809904 usa I HONOR YOU I never pass a Vietnam vet without stopping and thanking them for their service to our country. As the wife and sister of vets of this war, it is my time to say thank you for your ultimate gift of your young life to our country. GOD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU SAFE IN HIS ARMS. GOD BLESS THE USA. Apr 12, 2008
Your NKSH class of 1963 classmates will always remember your ultimate sacrifice for all of us. We’ll all catch up in the big reunion in the sky someday.
Apr 10, 2008
Thomas (Wood) Wiley tom.wiley@valornet.com High school friend. 412 West Vicksburg Street Broken Arrow OK 74011 U.S.A. Welcome home. High School Reunion this year (45th ). You will be honored and missed. December 1963, Christmas: From left to right, Marine Corps Pvt Ed Tufaga, Center; U.S. Army Pvt Thomas M. Wiley; Right, U.S. Army Pvt Thomas Joel Smith. Not sure of Ed’s lat name. His first name is Etuarti (Eddie). This was the last time we saw each other, December 1963.
There were 8 of us Thomas J. Smith, Thomas M. (Wood)Wiley, Etuarti Tufaga, Andy, Henry Tufaga, Dave Smith, Lala Tufaga, and a cousin of Eddie's. Tom, Ed, and I all graduated at the same time. Tom supplied the car, everyone else supplied the money for gas to spend Saturday, during the summer, going from one of Rhode Island to the other. Tom and his brother, Dave, and Ed were inseparable. Thomas J. had a heavy duty crush on Lala, Eddie's sister. Lala was the only one that did not have to provide gas money. Whenever she came on our little junkets, the seat next to Tom was her's. More than once we rode with 5 in the back seat that could only hold 4 comfortably. None of the others minded, and Thomas J. was in seventh heaven with Lala next to him. Tom went in to the Army in July because I broke my right hand I was delayed by a month and a half Ed enlisted into the Marine Corps. Tom when to Helicopter Maintenance School, Ed went to Combat Engineer School for the Marines Me, I went Airborne and was assigned to the 82d Airborne Division.
CWO2 Thomas Joel Smith, you will be missed Brother. Apr 10, 2008
Manuel Pino 2/8 Bco 1st Cav-68-69 mpjr54@msn.com Fellow Vietnam Army Vet 240 AHC 214 CAB Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings, Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things. You have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung, high in the sunlit silence, hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace, where never lark, or even eagle flew, and, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of God. By John G. Magee, Jr. Sunday, July 09, 2006
Liz Berry North Kingstown, RI A simple thank you from someone who has grown up in your hometown. You will never be forgotten. Thank you for your bravery and selflessness. You are forever a hometown hero. Rest in peace. Wednesday, May 11, 2005
R. Masters Honoring you on your birthday. Thank you, Hero. You are not forgotten. Monday, May 20, 2002
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