Billy Ray Venable

Sergeant
B CO, 1ST BN, 20TH INF RGT, 11 INF BDE
Army of the United States
07 June 1945 - 26 August 1968
Liberal, Missouri
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11 INF BDE

20TH INF RGT
Combat Infantry

Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

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Seed

Fields of desperate harvest
clamoring for life.
So few remember water,
others forget the soil
and lose their base.
Some forget to climb to the sunshine
or just give up the work.
Some forget they are alive and die.
But isn't it amazing,
the very few, how their stalks
straight and narrow
stand so rooted in?
How they eat of the earth and
fill with the rain, and
shine in the sun so golden?
They become food in their glory
to fill the souls of those who
would eat.
-- Alex DeBlasio --

Thank you.





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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Channing Prothro, former CAP Marine
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