HONORED ON PANEL 10E, LINE 118 OF THE WALL
GOLLIE LEO GRANT
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GOLLIE L GRANT
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LEFT FOR GOLLIE LEO GRANT
POSTED ON 10.27.1999
POSTED BY: sandy sipes
the gollie grant i knew.....and loved.
october 26, 1999
i knew you for only a few years; long enough to know that you were one of the most special people to ever come into my life. our times together were few but so memorable. i met you when i was in junior high school and you was a senior at old fort high school. you would pass my class room each day as you also went to class and your remarkable smile always brightened my day. at age 14, i fell in love with you but i don't think you ever knew it; or, perhaps you did. perhaps you saw it in my eyes. 33 years have passed and i still remember everything about you. i can still see you wheeling the school bus that you drove; and that beautiful smile!! you were so lucky to have survived the gunshot wound to your leg while hunting in the woods. this was long before vietnam. i came to see you and that night before leaving you kissed me and i will never forget the chill that went over me. i wanted you to hold me forever.
a friend from school told me that you gave your life for your country but i had never had that confirmed until i found your name on the virtual wall. it hurt as much as it would have hurt 33 years ago and alone, in the night, i cried, remembering you.
i never knew you were born in the month of may, making you a taurus. i am a leo, born in august and this would have made us compatible in love....if astrology holds any truth.
i knew you before so many things....men landing on the moon, mustangs, elton john, my children and now my grandchildren. i knew you before this world became so corrupt but not as corrupt as the war that so meaninglessly took your life. i can only trust now that you left this world without a lot of pain, hurting and suffering.
i can still see you as you walked upon the stage to receive you high school diploma as you started out your life. this terrible thing should have never happened to you, gollie grant, because your impact on this world and the people you would have met would have made it be a more special place in which to live. now, my world is sadder; learning of your death but your name and knowing you will forever be embedded in my mind.
i loved you as much as a 14 year old girl knew how to love and you were my first love;the one who made my heart stop each time i saw you or each time you held me in your arms.
in the fall of 1963, i had to move away from old fort with my family. my dad, being a baptist minister and pastoring for a while at bethlehem baptist church in old fort, accepted a church in spruce pine, n.c. the move took me away from you but it never took away the rememberance of you.
i am now 51 years old, a mother of three and a grandmother of four. i had always wondered where life had taken you and now, so sadly, i know but i don't understand why your life was ended by a war that nobody ever, to this day, has understood.
i hope one day to see you in heaven. i hope one day you will know just how much i loved you.
good by for now, gollie grant, but not for eternity. i love you!!
sandy sipes
email address: [email protected]
i knew you for only a few years; long enough to know that you were one of the most special people to ever come into my life. our times together were few but so memorable. i met you when i was in junior high school and you was a senior at old fort high school. you would pass my class room each day as you also went to class and your remarkable smile always brightened my day. at age 14, i fell in love with you but i don't think you ever knew it; or, perhaps you did. perhaps you saw it in my eyes. 33 years have passed and i still remember everything about you. i can still see you wheeling the school bus that you drove; and that beautiful smile!! you were so lucky to have survived the gunshot wound to your leg while hunting in the woods. this was long before vietnam. i came to see you and that night before leaving you kissed me and i will never forget the chill that went over me. i wanted you to hold me forever.
a friend from school told me that you gave your life for your country but i had never had that confirmed until i found your name on the virtual wall. it hurt as much as it would have hurt 33 years ago and alone, in the night, i cried, remembering you.
i never knew you were born in the month of may, making you a taurus. i am a leo, born in august and this would have made us compatible in love....if astrology holds any truth.
i knew you before so many things....men landing on the moon, mustangs, elton john, my children and now my grandchildren. i knew you before this world became so corrupt but not as corrupt as the war that so meaninglessly took your life. i can only trust now that you left this world without a lot of pain, hurting and suffering.
i can still see you as you walked upon the stage to receive you high school diploma as you started out your life. this terrible thing should have never happened to you, gollie grant, because your impact on this world and the people you would have met would have made it be a more special place in which to live. now, my world is sadder; learning of your death but your name and knowing you will forever be embedded in my mind.
i loved you as much as a 14 year old girl knew how to love and you were my first love;the one who made my heart stop each time i saw you or each time you held me in your arms.
in the fall of 1963, i had to move away from old fort with my family. my dad, being a baptist minister and pastoring for a while at bethlehem baptist church in old fort, accepted a church in spruce pine, n.c. the move took me away from you but it never took away the rememberance of you.
i am now 51 years old, a mother of three and a grandmother of four. i had always wondered where life had taken you and now, so sadly, i know but i don't understand why your life was ended by a war that nobody ever, to this day, has understood.
i hope one day to see you in heaven. i hope one day you will know just how much i loved you.
good by for now, gollie grant, but not for eternity. i love you!!
sandy sipes
email address: [email protected]
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POSTED ON 10.20.1999
POSTED BY: John Bruneel
"I'm the One Called Doc..."
Rest in Peace "Doc"
John Bruneel, HMCM USN (Ret)
"I'm the One Called "Doc…"
I shall not walk in your footsteps,
but I will walk by your side.
I shall not walk in your image,
I've earned my own title of pride.
We've answered the call together,
on sea and foreign land.
When the cry for help was given,
I've been there right at hand.
Whether I am on the ocean
or in the jungle wearing greens,
Giving aid to my fellow man,
be it Sailors or Marines.
So the next time you see a corpsman
and you thing of calling him "squid",
Think of the job he's doing
as those before him did.
And if you ever have to go out there
and you life is on the block,
Look at the one right next to you…
I'm the one called "Doc".
Harry D. Penny, Jr. HMC(AC)USN
Copyright 1975
"Permission to reprint granted
by the author/copyright owner".
(Permission for poem & graphic)
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POSTED ON 7.16.1999
POSTED BY: Chip Craig
I NEVER KNEW YOU...
Gollie Grant was my uncle. He died before I was born. I visited the wall in D.C. in 88, and cried my eyes out when I found his name. He died valiantly, saving 3 Marines before he was mortally wounded. There was a hospital named for him in Charleston Naval Base, Grant Hall. He was a hero, even though I didn't know him. When I get to heaven, I look forward to shaking his hand. Chip Craig
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