Michael Bard

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09 Dec 2005 Micheal, you have not been forgotten!! Daddy, CPL Vincent Alex Tacia USMC ... your best friend ... flew the POW/MIA and USA flag for you and all the other brothers and sisters who served every day, until the day he died ... Feb. 28th 2005 at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital. Now he is in heaven with you, Michael. Thanks for serving our country and now you are with my Daddy having fun once again. In loving Memory to the both of you. From the Corporal's daughter Julie Marie Tacia 11 Nov 2006 Dear Michael Bard and Vincent Tacia (Daddy): I wanted to wish you both a very, very special Veterans' Day. Today is November 11, 2006. I am also wishing all of the veterans and families of the United States of America and those fallen heros we have ever lost. I thank you for our freedom and liberty and all of the sacrifices any veteran has ever made. I love you and I miss you dearly ... You are in my thoughts and prayers as this candle burns in your loving memories all day long. May the wings of an Angel embrace every veteran today and always! Please remember to hug and thank a veteran ... Remember Freedom does NOT come free! Julie Tacia and Son. 17 Jun 2007 Happy Father's Day, Daddy ... Vincent Alex Tacia ... You were the best father in the whole wide world, you were my rock. I miss you. All My Love - Your daughter Julie Marie Tacia 6-17-07 To Michael, You lost your life so long ago and never had the chance to become a father yourself. I know you would have been a great father the way my dad would talk about you. I am sorry you missed that chance. With the friendship you shared with my father I would have been honored to call you Uncle Michael ... If I had only met you, for you were a brother-like, best friend to my father. I miss you both. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL OF YOU IN HEAVEN! xoxoxxoo From his daughter, Julie Marie Tacia 20 Oct 2007 Daddy and Michael ... Happy Sweetest Day .. October 20TH 2007 ... Love You "HEART GIFTS"...To ALL My Friends on Sweetest Day....My Gift To You. "HEART GIFTS" It's not the things that can be bought that are life's richest treasure, It's just the little "heart gifts" that money cannot measure... A cheerful smile, a friendly word, a sympathetic nod are priceless little treasures from the storehouse of our GOD... They are things that cannot be bought with silver or with gold, for thoughtfulness and kindness and love are never sold... They are the priceless things in life for which no one can pay, And the giver finds rich recompense in giving them away. May My Blessing of Love and Happiness Be With You All Today and Every day Thanks Be To God. Jewels TO THE SWEETEST MEN I HAVE EVER KNOWN ... Please Support Our Troops!! Julie Marie Tacia 11 Nov 2007 What Is A Veteran Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking. What is a vet? He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel. He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel. She - or he - is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang. He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL. He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs. He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand. He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by. He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep. He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come. He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs. He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, the greatest nation ever known. So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded. Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU." - Father Denis Edward O'Brien - This page is dedicated to all veterans past, present and future. This Veterans' day, please don't forget the Veterans. The Men and Women who fought so bravely and lost their lives during WWI, WWII, Korea, Viet Nam, Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq and peacekeeping. Let us never forget our MIAs and POWs. Please remember to keep all Veterans and their families in your thoughts and daily prayers. HAPPY VETERANS DAY IN HEAVEN... Thinking of You and Dad today. Julie Tacia From the daughter of a deceased Vietnam Veteran...This was my Father's Best Friend, Julie Marie Tacia 1250 Amarillo, Wolverine Lake, Mi. 48390 julietacia@sbcglobal.net

A Note from The Virtual Wall In the early evening of 11 June 1968 Mike Company, 3/1 Marines, lost two men while returning from a patrol. They were Cpl Michael Bard and Pfc Raymond C. Mora of Kansas City, Kansas.

The point-of-contact for this memorial is Cpl Vincent Tacia's daughter, Julie Marie Tacia 1250 Amarillo, Wolverine Lake, Mi. 48390-1900 julietacia@sbcglobal.net

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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Memorial first published on 09 Dec 2005
Last updated 02/01/2008