1956: Spec 3 Glover, Thomas L. Reporting for duty, Sir!

I can't believe the guy staring back at me is the same guy who is entering this post! I was all of 140 pounds, looking at 900 plus days in Uncle Sam's army, and counting each and every one of them. Was I really ever this young?

2008: Remembering Ray Sypniewski - A True Hamilton Hero

With the approach of Veterans' Day in this pre-holiday month of November, I have chosen to re-list an article which I wrote many years ago relating to a young man from a dear family who lived just up the Hartley Avenue hill from the Glovers. Ray Sypniewski (Sip-nyeski) was a childhood friend who was the first Mercer County casualty of the Korean war. Why we hear so little about this hero is far beyond my understanding. If ever an American patriot and war hero deserves a monument in Veterans' Park, it is young Ray Sypniewski.

My Friend, Ray Sypniewski

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Ray was the first Trenton area fatality of the Korean War. His family lived right up the street from me in our Hartley Avenue home. He was a member of the class of 1950 at Hamilton High.