HONORED ON PANEL 24E, LINE 35 OF THE WALL
BRIAN DUAINE MCCONAHAY
WALL NAME
BRIAN D MCCONAHAY
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24E/35
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DATE OF CASUALTY
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LEFT FOR BRIAN DUAINE MCCONAHAY
POSTED ON 5.21.2023
POSTED BY: john fabris
honoring you...
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from your high school classmate Dennis Hemphill is touching and reflects is admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….
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POSTED ON 9.9.2022
POSTED BY: Jessica
Wish I could have met you
You were my great uncle. Great grandma Dorothy and Great grandpa Hollis were amazing, loving people so I can only imagine how great of a man you were. I wish i could have met you. Rest in peace.
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POSTED ON 5.10.2022
POSTED BY: Kenneth V. Killmeyer
We Will Never Forget You!
Your Shipmate's of the USS FORRESTAL Association Will Never Forget You!
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POSTED ON 11.27.2020
POSTED BY: Daniel Coon
Remembering Brian
Brian and I met when we were about 3 years old. We were neighbors in Columbus Junction, living across the street from one another. We were permitted to go into each other's yard without having to ask our parents. In the summer we ran around barefoot and shirtless, playing in the sand pile, making tents on the lawn, riding our tricycles, particularly through puddles of water after a rain. He was strong for a young kid and I once asked him where he got his muscle. "I eat minced meat.", he replied. (Minced meat was what would be called a deli entrée today.)
When we turned 5 we started kindergarten together in Columbus Jct. and our class picture has us in the front row, Brian holding one end of the advertising sign, I'm holding the other end.
Soon after my family moved to another town but Brian and I kept in touch when I visited my Grandparents who moved into the house we left behind.
-fast forward to 1967. I'm in the Navy as a Corpsman and went to visit my Grandparents while home on leave. The first thing my Grandmother asked was if I'd heard about Brian; I had not. I learned a Zuni rocket accidentally went off while positioned on a fighter jet on the flight deck, hitting a gas tank from which the explosion ignited a chain reaction of explosions including bombs. Brian was asleep under the deck when he lost his life.
He was the only son of Hollis and Dorothy Maconahay, and had a sister, Nancy.
It's easy to remember him.
Daniel Coon
When we turned 5 we started kindergarten together in Columbus Jct. and our class picture has us in the front row, Brian holding one end of the advertising sign, I'm holding the other end.
Soon after my family moved to another town but Brian and I kept in touch when I visited my Grandparents who moved into the house we left behind.
-fast forward to 1967. I'm in the Navy as a Corpsman and went to visit my Grandparents while home on leave. The first thing my Grandmother asked was if I'd heard about Brian; I had not. I learned a Zuni rocket accidentally went off while positioned on a fighter jet on the flight deck, hitting a gas tank from which the explosion ignited a chain reaction of explosions including bombs. Brian was asleep under the deck when he lost his life.
He was the only son of Hollis and Dorothy Maconahay, and had a sister, Nancy.
It's easy to remember him.
Daniel Coon
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POSTED ON 11.27.2020
POSTED BY: Daniel Coon
Remembering Brian
Brian and I met when we were about 3 years old. We were neighbors in Columbus Junction, living across the street from one another. We were permitted to go into each other's yard without having to ask our parents. In the summer we ran around barefoot and shirtless, playing in the sand pile, making tents on the lawn, riding our tricycles, particularly through puddles of water after a rain. He was strong for a young kid and I once asked him where he got his muscle. "I eat minced meat.", he replied. (Minced meat was what would be called a deli entrée today.)
When we turned 5 we started kindergarten together in Columbus Jct. and our class picture has us in the front row, Brian holding one end of the advertising sign, I'm holding the other end.
Soon after my family moved to another town but Brian and I kept in touch when I visited my Grandparents who moved into the house we left behind.
-fast forward to 1967. I'm in the Navy as a Corpsman and went to visit my Grandparents while home on leave. The first thing my Grandmother asked was if I'd heard about Brian; I had not. I learned a Zuni rocket accidentally went off while positioned on a fighter jet on the flight deck, hitting a gas tank from which the explosion ignited a chain reaction of explosions including bombs. Brian was asleep under the deck when he lost his life.
He was the only son of Hollis and Dorothy Maconahay, and had a sister, Nancy.
It's easy to remember him.
Daniel Coon
When we turned 5 we started kindergarten together in Columbus Jct. and our class picture has us in the front row, Brian holding one end of the advertising sign, I'm holding the other end.
Soon after my family moved to another town but Brian and I kept in touch when I visited my Grandparents who moved into the house we left behind.
-fast forward to 1967. I'm in the Navy as a Corpsman and went to visit my Grandparents while home on leave. The first thing my Grandmother asked was if I'd heard about Brian; I had not. I learned a Zuni rocket accidentally went off while positioned on a fighter jet on the flight deck, hitting a gas tank from which the explosion ignited a chain reaction of explosions including bombs. Brian was asleep under the deck when he lost his life.
He was the only son of Hollis and Dorothy Maconahay, and had a sister, Nancy.
It's easy to remember him.
Daniel Coon
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