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SGT BRUCE DALE JONES
VSPA MEMORIAL, OCT 5, 2012
18th VSPA Reunion 2012
© 2012

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Photos submitted by:
VSPA Photographer Tony Morris; Courtesy of The Evergreen Courant Newspaper; Garry T. Lee, and other VSPA Members.

(108) ... We've no less days to sing God's praise... than when we've first begun....

(109) VSPA Members exit Rabb Cemetery's gate. JROTC "Jaguars" salute members. :)

(110) Middle School "Jaguars" wave and take iPhone photos. Very polite young kids!
(110c.) Newell Swartz, prior VSPA president, and Mom, enjoy the JROTC's friendly spirit.
(110b/c.) Newell Swartz, prior VSPA President, and Mom, enjoy the JROTC's friendly spirit.

(111) Everyone is leaving for the bus and the short ride to Evergreen's new Veterans Monument
where they will see Sgt Bruce Dale Jones' name listed with twelve Vietnam KIA/LOD casualties.

(112) USAF Flag was posted near Sgt Jones' tombstone with the framed Poster and signatures.

(113) Footstone was paid for by an anonymous VSPA member and placed on Sgt Jones tombslab with permission of the family.

(114) Mom and Erlyce leave the memorial Rabb Cemetery, with mixed feelings and memories of their own personal loss.

(115) As VSAP members enter/exit Rabb Cemetery, they see a Rabb Family bricked-in location, which was part of the original cemetery
built in the early 1800s. One of the tombstones lists a deceased as having been age ten when our country celebrated its first 4th of July holiday.


(116) Rabb Family plots, bricked-in location, at Rabb Cemetery, Evergreen Alabama.


(117) Rabb Family plots, bricked-in location, at Rabb Cemetery, Evergreen Alabama.

The Evewrgreen Courant newspaper banner (Alabama).
(120a) Newspaper Banner - (120b) Article
(118a) Newspaper Banner - (118b) Article
(121) Bruce Dale Jones HS photo.
(119) Bruce Dale Jones HS photo.


(122) The caption on the back of that picture declared this to be the
(120) The caption on the back of that picture declared this to be the "Knot Hole Gang."
They were further identified as:
Front Row, L-R:  Tubby, Quint, Carl Back Row, L-R:  Bruce, Zachery, Wendell.

(123) St. Paul United Methodist Church: Last Rites bulletin for Airman First Class Bruce Dale Jones (posthumously promoted).
(121) St. Paul United Methodist Church: Last Rites bulletin for Airman First Class Bruce Dale Jones (posthumously promoted).
(124) St. Paul United Methodist Church: Obituary Airman First Class Bruce Dale Jones (posthumously promoted).
(122) St. Paul United Methodist Church: Obituary Airman First Class Bruce Dale Jones (posthumously promoted).
 
VSPA Floral Wreath for Sgt Bruce Dale Jones, LOD 1972.

VSPA Remembers Sgt Bruce Dale Jones
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I have to say that VSPA's response was more than one could hope for. I am so proud of my brothers for
showing so much support and caring for this event. I now have an even GREATER pride in our association
as a result -- if that's even possible.  Thank you Don for all of your work!!!! Regards, Ed Daubert

 
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