if (typeof YAHOO == undefined) { var YAHOO = {}; } YAHOO.Shortcuts = YAHOO.Shortcuts || {}; YAHOO.Shortcuts.doUlt = false; YAHOO.Shortcuts.location = us; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_id = 0; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_type = ; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_title = Fw: ; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_publish_date = ; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_author = [email protected]; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_url = ; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_tags = ; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_language = en; YAHOO.Shortcuts.document_numTokens = 283; YAHOO.Shortcuts.version = 3.3.0; YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSet = { }; YAHOO.Shortcuts.annotationSetID = 5adc490c73d4749b6af052be4506ad79; UNSUNG HEROES OF WORLD WAR 11 IN THIS PHOTO IS MY SPECIAL FRIEND MR ALONZO HOOKER OF VANCE S.C. HE IS 91 YRS OF AGE. HE AND FELLOW VETERANS OF S.C. ARE AT THE NATIONAL WW-11 MEMORIAL MONUMENT IN WASHIINGTON DC. THIS EVENT IS SPONSORED BY A LOCAL GROUP KNOW AS HONOR FLIGHT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. MR HOOKER AND MY UNCLE, AL CAVNAR JUNIOR WERE BOTH SOLDIERS OF THE 89th CAVALRY RECON TROOP DURING WW-11. THEY WERE BEST PALS. ON MAY 4, 1945, THEY WERE ON A ROUTINE PATROL OF THE FORWARD AREA WHEN THEY WERE AMBUSHED BY A GERMAN PATROL NEAR THE SMALL GERMAN TOWN OF RAUM. A HEAVY FIREFIGHT ENSUED IN WHICH AL JUNIOR WAS MORTALLY WOUNDED. HIT IN THE CHEST, HE FELL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. MR HOOKER LEFT HIS COVER AND WENT TO THE AID OF HIS DOWNED PAL AND WITH BULLETS HITTING ALL AROUND THEM, HE PROCEEDED TO DRAG HIM SOME 50 YARDS AWAY FROM ENEMY FIRE. AL CAVNAR WAS STILL ALIVE BUT DYING. MR HOOKER DRESSED HIS WOUND AND STAYED WITH HIM UNTIL HE DIED. I HAVE THE LETTER HE SENT TO JUNIORS MOM, MRS WILLIE CAVNAR [MY GRANDMOTHER] OF COOLIDGE TX. HE EXPLAINED AS BEST HE COULD WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY SO THAT SHE WOULD KNOW HOW HER SON DIED, AND HE WANTED HER TO KNOW THAT HE WAS NOT ALONE WHEN HE DIED. jerry harold honor flight 6.jpg honor flight 6.jpg MR Hooker poses in front of one of the many notable engraved quotations around the walls of the World War II Memorial. Pictured is one of two quotes by President Harry S Truman on the memorial’s western corner.
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