Thomas Joseph Lyons

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05 Mar 2002 "To live in the hearts we leave behind, is never to have died." (Thomas Campbell, circa 1888) From one who remembers. Frank Freeman ffree196@optonline.net

It is March 31, 2002, and I want to say "Happy Birthday, Tommy". We all still miss you very much and you will live forever in our hearts. I love you and miss you, your baby sister, Dottie dolima@aol.com

A Note from The Virtual Wall Although assigned to HHC, Sergeant Lyons was in the field with D Company. He received the Silver Star for an action in which he administered first aid under fire to two wounded men ... while on his way to a third he tripped a mine and received fatal wounds. He is remembered by his comrades in the 5th Infantry - the Bobcats Visit John Dennison's Medics on the Wall memorial which honors the Army Medics and Navy Corpsmen who died in Vietnam.

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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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