J.C. Webb, Pearl Harbor, KIA

[go-fish]

Remember James Cecil Webb today, Dec. 7th.

His remains were exhumed from the USS Oklahoma a few years ago and his identity was confirmed. It took several years but he was finally released for burial last year.

He was from my small community in Oklahoma and had but a few distant relatives still living. They could have had him buried at any National Cemetery of their choice including Arlington and Pearl Harbor, where he was killed.

They wanted him buried in our little community cemetery but didn’t have an extra plot. My Dad is the keeper at the cemetery and donated one of his personal plots.

James Cecil Webb is buried next to my brother who is a 2xPurple Heart recipient Veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. He died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head one day before Veteran’s Day last year.

May you both Rest In Peace.

 

[diymirage]

They are in good company

 

[C2ndLTpigeon]

Thank you for sharing, True hero's.

 

[66340SEDAN]

Great they were able to lay him to rest, very nice of your father also. Very sorry about your brother, too many people know a loved one who died that way and it’s really hard. May both hero’s Rest In Peace

 

[Krooser]

God Bless them all....

 

[barbee6043]

When I was a child in the early 60s, mom told me I saved my dad's life. After all of WW11 and Korea, and his returning to civilian life, she said his responsibility to me was what kept him going. Even as that young child, I knew he had serious issues. It did not have that name of PTSD or whatever its called.
God Bless the veteran and all they have suffered.

 

[diymirage]

When I was a child in the early 60s, mom told me I saved my dad's life. After all of WW11 and Korea, and his returning to civilian life, she said his responsibility to me was what kept him going. Even as that young child, I knew he had serious issues. It did not have that name of PTSD or whatever its called.
God Bless the veteran and all they have suffered.

I think in the early days they called it "she'll shock"