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Volunteer Opportunity Honors Vets
The Torrance Historical Society Board persists in its project to gather and
preserve the too-short life story of each of the 146 Torrance military
personnel who gave their lives in service to country. Using the scant
information from local public records, the Society provided study guides and
enlisted the help of the local high schools. During the Spring school semester
of 2008, students at North and Torrance High Schools collected information on
some of those listed on the Memorial Wall at Torrance Civic Center.
Much remains to be done to achieve the objective. Help is needed. Michael
George, Society Board member and Reference Librarian at the Katy Geissert
Library, will present two fact finding seminars for volunteer researchers.
They will learn techniques for gathering information from yearbooks,
newspapers, directories and government records.
Volunteers are urged to contact Jerry Ronan at 310.328.1972 or GTRonan@aol.com
or the Museum at 310.328.5392.
NAMES ON THE WALL |
- Alvarez, Louis
- Anzak, Joseph Jr.
- Bailey, Bernard
- Barkdull, Olin
- Beranek, Rudolph
- Bernasconi, Rudolph
- Bliefernich, Arnold
- Brightfield, Ralph
- Brooks, Kenneth
- Brown, Clent
- Bruce, Claude
- Bruhn,, Gary
- Burkholder, Bryson
- Byrne, James
- Caraway Archie
- Carder, Paul
- Carter, Michael
- Carter, Thomas
- Chavez, Dario
- Coburn, Ernest
- Coburn, George
- Cotner, Morrison
- Craw, Donald
- Crawford, Douglas
- Crocker, Ricardo
- Crossland, Bert
- Cruize, Raymond
- Culverhouse, Leon
- Cunningham, Dan
- Daniel, James
- Dietlin, Francis
- Dilkess, Thomas
- Dixon, Michael
- Dodson, Robert
- Duarte, Miguel
- Edwards, Bobby
- Eisenacher, Charles
- Ernst, Edward
- Escobar, George
- Eversull, Anthony
- Ferrara, Matthew
- Fess, John Jr.
- Flores, Nestor
- Foley, John
- Foster, John
- Franklin, Perry
- Gifford, Micah
- Grant, Stephen
- Grubbs, Gary
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- Gutierrez, Jose
- Hamilton, Chelsea
- Haslet, Thomas
- Hatter, Robert
- Heath, Isaac
- Herlett, James
- Hill, Alan
- Hill, John
- Hill, Ernest, Jr.
- Isbell, George
- Johnson, Jesse
- Jones, Frank
- Jones, Herman
- Judge, James
- Judge, Mark
- Kandler, Terreace
- Kessel, Michael
- Kindrick, Bryce
- Kirkpatrick, William
- Lara, Lupe
- Lewis Stephen
- Lugo, Anthony
- Madore, Louis
- Markwell, Eugene
- Martin, Thomas
- Matayoshi, Wallace
- McMinn, Danny
- Merkel, Ruben
- Mitchell, James
- Moody, Garlan
- Mullen, Joseph
- Munoz, Larry
- Mutschlek, Forrest
- Nestor, John
- Newton, James
- Noble, Robert
- Nunn, William
- O'Brien, Richard
- Obidine, Vladimir
- Parker, Arthur
- Pennington, Raymond
- Plunkett, Milo
- Price, Theron
- Price, Thomas
- Prowten, James
- Purcell, Gary
- Quaggin, Fred
- Ramsey, Floyd
- Ratliff, Paul
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- Reynolds, John
- Richardson, Robert
- Richhart, Everett
- Robillard, Larry
- Roomsburg, Tony
- Sanderson, Paul
- Sapp, Warren
- Scheibler, Clarence
- Schoolcraft, William
- Searle, Robert
- Shaner, Eugene
- Shimatsu, Akira
- Simonian, Gregory
- Sleeth, William
- Smith, Addison
- Smith, Christopher
- Smith, Edgar
- Snee, Francis
- Stambook, Robert
- Stewart, Alex
- Stewart, William
- Stone, Gregory
- Strieker, Eugene
- Strobridge, Rodney
- Tamura, Osamu
- Tanouye, Ted
- Tanouye, Yukiwo
- Tarrance, William
- Thayer, Richard
- Tidwell, Royce
- Tiffany, Frederick
- Tudor, Kenneth
- Vorhis, Leonard
- Walker, George
- Wanbaugh, Ronald
- Washer, Richard
- Watson, Earl
- Webster, Frank
- Wensel, Norman
- West, Walter
- Weymouth, Theodore
- Wilcox, Ivan
- Williams, Larry
- Williams, Thomas
- Wissel, Walter
- Wood, Brian
- Works, Charles
- Wright, Thomas
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Charlie Saulinas, Vietnam War Veteran,
reading the 146 Names on the Wall in 2020
Remembering Those Who Served and Gave Their Lives.
Normally, that means before COVID crept into our lives, on Memorial Day, the
Torrance Historical Society conducts a memorial service for Torrance service
personnel who gave their lives in U.S. military actions. The program takes
place on the Memorial Plaza at the corner of Torrance Blvd. and Maple
Ave.,
and includes the reading of the 146 Names on the Wall. Those Names include war
losses from World War I to those in the Iraq and Afghanistan War.
However, in an abundance of caution, the Torrance Historical Society, adhering
to the social distancing rules in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19,
gathered at the Memorial Wall without an audience for a reading of the names,
May 20, 2020. There was one reader, not seven - Charlie Saulinas, a
Vietnam Veteran. Michelle Polcari, President, welcomed the virtual crowd, and
Jerry Ronan, Coordinator of the event, lead the Flag Salute. It was simple.
It was poignant. It was tradition.
On Monday, we will be grateful for the gift of those who never came home. We
will remember -- every day is Memorial Day. " We will pray that we may never
add another name to that cold, black wall," noted Jerry Ronan, Torrance
Historical Society Board Member and WWll Veteran.
CitiCABLE aired the Reading on Memorial Day , Monday, May 25, 2020 at 7:00
AM, 4:30 PM, and 7:30 PM PST. See the event on YouTube


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