Archives: October 2025

Faces of War : Spc William Maher III

Bill Maher was always doing something. I met Bill’s sister Kelly in a Starbucks. She was anxious to talk about her brother. She described him was adventurous. “He always loved to travel, hike, ski, big time snowboarder, fisherman. He couldn’t sit still my brother.” After graduating from high school, Bill went to the Culinary Institute

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Faces of War: PFC Nathaniel DeTample

Nate DeTample can be described as small in stature but with a big personality. He was a high school wrestler and an Eagle Scout. His mother Kim says, “He was a wrestler, and he was dedicated to the wrestling team. He wanted to be a police officer”…like his father. He was a real community related

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Faces of War: Marine Eric Fritzinger

Marine Corporal Eric Fritzinger was a 17 year old high school graduate in 2005 when he told his parents he wanted to enlist in the Marines. He needed their permission because he was under age. First, they said no, but relented when he said he would go in on his own when he was eighteen.

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