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This list of ZHS alumni who served nam #Awarded the bronze star medal with time.##Purple Heart;#Bronze Star; Prisoner
in one of the United States Armed V"device, awarded the silver star PICTURED of War Medal.
ABOVE
Forceswas compiled from responses *##Andrew G. Neal; 1952; US Marines;4
to requests in articles in the Zeph- **## Harry Lindsay Thain; 1962; US Army, years of service; Purple Heart and other
yrhills News and on the ZHS Alumni Captain; 1971-1972; West Point graduate. medals
Killed in Action, May 24, 1972 at Thua Thin,
Website. No known list exists from South Vietnam. Silver Star for gallantry ##Mary Katherine Mason; 2001; US Marine
which to compile a complete listing West Point established the Captain Harry A Corps Reserves', Lance Corporal; Kuwait;
of those who served, and we had to Thain Memorial Award annually presented to Iraq; injured in the line of duty in Iraq.
the outstanding member of the West Point
rely on the responses of the alumni pistol team PICTURED ABOVE Merrill Cherry, 1941;Army he served in Rail-
or their friends and families to gather road Operations in the Philippines and South
the information listed here.We regret **Wentz Jerome Henry"Baron" Shanaberger, Korea from 1946 - 1949. After the war, he
III, 1988 ; JROTC : US Army, Military Police in worked 41 years for Seaboard Railroad which
any omissions and understand Fort Bragg, NC; Desert Storm (1998). Killed in eventually changed its name with a merger
that the list iS not complete. action March 24, 2004 PICTURED ABOVE and became Seaboard Coastline Railroad.
Order of information: Merrill was member of the first Football and
Name **#Marcus Mathes; 2002; JROTC; US Army; Basketball team at ZHS. He passed away in
Class of(year) 2005-2008: Fort Sill, OK:Afghanistan; Iraq. 2005 PHOTO#43
JROTC (if applicable) Sergeant Mathes was Killed In Action on April
Branch of Service 28, 2008 in Bagdad, Iraq Purple Heart Army Norman Turner-class of 1944, enlisted in the
Rank, number of years Commendation Medal; Iraq Campaign Medal US Navy in 1943 and served 2 years before
Places served National Defense Service Medal Humanitarian discharge and then re-enlisted. He was pho-
** Killed in Action Service Medal NATO Medal Combat Action tographer for the Navy and was once invited to
*Wounded Badge. On March 15, 2010 the Dade City Post London to take pictures of Queen Elizabeth's
##Purple Heart Office dedicated its building in honor of Army Coronation.
#Silver or Bronze Star Sgt. Marcus Mathes. U.S. Congresswoman
Ginny Brown-Waite(FL-05)said at the cer- #Carl Bennie Hall; 1972; US Army, LTC;
**William V. Barfield, (nicknamed "Bink"), 1950 emony, "Everyone who utilizes this post office 1976-1996; Fort Gordon, GA, Ft. Benning, GA,
—served in the United States Marine Corps will see his name above the doors, and can Republic of Korea, Ft. Stewart, GA; Ft. Mon-
and died in Korea in 1951. He is buried in take a deliberate pause from their routine to mouth, NJ; Ft. Campbell, KY; Saudi Arabia
Baraboo, Wisconsin area. Bink played basket- remember his sacrifice, and give thanks to him and Iraq (Desert Storm and Desert Shield); Ft.
ball at ZHS as noted by classmate, Walter Hill and all of our men and women who continue Gillem, GA.Bronze Star Defense Meritorious
PICTURED ABOVE to fight the good fight." Mathes was married to Service Medal Meritorious Service Medal
Julia (Ehrman)Mathes, a 2002 ZHS graduate. Army Commendation Medal Joint Service
**(P)Johnny Elmer Lewis, 1965-enlisted the **William V. (Bink) Barfield; 1950, US Marine Achievement Medal Kuwait Liberation Medal
United States Army on March 7, 1967 as E3 Corps: Deceased, Korea, 1951 PICTURED Defense of Saudi Arabia Medal South West
Private First Class with the C Company. 2nd ABOVE Asia Service Medal National Defense Service
Battalion, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, Medal Korean Defense Service Medal Air
USARV. Johnny was the 1st young man from **##Jonathan Charles O'Neill; 2004; US Army, Assault Badge PHOTO#13
Zephyrhills to be Killed in Action during the Specialist; 2007-2009; Military Police; Fort
Vietnam War on April 6, 1967 at Tay Ninh Stewart, GA. Wounded in Afghanistan, he #David Ahrens; 1973; awarded ROTC
Province, South Vietnam due to multiple was transported to Germany, where President scholarship at UT; US Army; Retired 2005;
fragmentation wounds after being shot. He Obama visited and presented him with the Schwaebish Gmuend, Germany; Elite Ranger
was only 19 years old. Recently a commemo- Purple Heart and the Presidential Coin, June Battalion, Ft. Lewis, WA;Asst. Professor of
rative stained glass window was placed at the 4, 2009. Spc. Jonathan C. O'Neill died days Militay Science UC at Charlotte; Nuclear War-
Zephyrhills Depot Museum to honor Johnny later at Brooke Army Medical Center in San head Detachment,Turkey; Ft. Campbell, KY;
Lewis by his sister, Jackie Lewis Puskas, class Antonio,Texas PICTURED ABOVE Garrison Commander Ft. Irwin, CA; Execu-
of 1964. His name is engraved on the Vietnam tive Officer, Strategic Studies Department,
Virtual Wall and can be seen at www.Virtual- ##. #Fred W. Tucker left for the service in 1943 American War College, Carlisle, PA; Inspector
Wall.org/dl/LewisJE03a.htm on Panel 17E, during WWII' U.S.Army, Sergeant First Class; General, US Army Japan; Commander of a
Line 112 PICTURED ABOVE 1945-1958; Camp Blanding; Camp Fanning, three state ROTC Brigade(22 colleges and
TX, basic training; Fort Benning in '45)gradu- 212 high school ROTC programs; Director of
** Donnie Monroe Stokes; 1961; US Army, ated from Paratrooper School); Philippines; Leader Development for Army Cadet Com-
E5 Sergeant; Killed in Action, December 3, Alaska; Japan; Korea, July 14, 1950-Septem- mand; Contracted Military Analyst for US Army
1968 in Quang Ngai Provence, South Viet- ber 1953, after 33 months as a Prisoner of Training and Doctrine Command Fort Monroe,
War. Mr. Tucker was the only Pasco County VA. Legion of Merit with two Oak Leaf Clusters
214 resident who was a Prisoner of War at that