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army | 3rd Us inFantry (tHe Old GUard)
“I came to Lubbock in 2008. My daughter and her
husband, an Army recruiter First Sergeant, had bought
a little house and wanted me to add a bedroom onto it.
I told everybody when I was 12 years old that I would
move to Texas someday. I just didn’t know it was going
to take so long!”
Bill went on the 2017 Texas South Plains Honor Flight
and said that “All the memorials and museums there
are significant to me, but I really liked the Iwo Jima
Memorial. To me it represents the fighting spirit of
American soldiers. Every veteran should have the
opportunity to take a trip like that. Because I was part
Memorial Bridge that leads into Arlington Cemetery. of President Kennedy’s funeral, they took me to his
I was standing at the corner of the Lincoln Memorial. grave and interviewed me. God brought me through
That was the saddest thing I have ever witnessed.” the service and gave me the life that I have. I have a lot
of great memories.” Bill has attended Southcrest Baptist
Bill was discharged at Ft. Myer on December 16, 1964, Church for the last three years, and he says, “I choose
and went back to Champaign, IL. “I met Sandra Heath to think about the good things and not the sad ones. I
at a church in Charleston, IL. We married in March let God take care of the bad ones, and I get to enjoy the
1965 and have three children, all of whom served in the good ones.”
military. I worked first for my father-in-law, then the
cement finishers union, the Quincy, IL Park District, and
as a welder in Tuscola, IL. I also built houses which I
could do from the ground up.
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