LTC Justin R. Toole: Thank You Son For Your Continued Service To Our Country! We Are So Proud Of You! Love, MOM & DOD

In early 1987 Col Higgins was assigned to the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) as Chief of the U.N. Military Observer GP in southern Lebanon. In Feb 1988, his unarmed UN convoy was ambushed & he was kidnapped, & murdered by a Gp with links to Hezbollah. Rich, your courage & dedication in selfless service is, and will be remembered. The magnificent USS Higgins (DDG-76) carries your name proudly ...Farewell my friend & - Semper Fidelis - (Part of the Foreword by Gen A.M. Grey, 29th Commandant of the Marine Corps, to the book Patriot Dreams, written by Rich's widow Marine Lt Col Robin Higgins who displayed enormous courage & faith throughout the long ordeal of her husbands captivity & subsequent death. She has given us a powerful book of love, loyalty, jncredible courage, patriotism,... - submitted by a personal comrad in arms at the US Mission to the UN who knew him personally and has a personal copy of Patriot Dreams signed by Robin Higgins.

Thank you Mama!!

Remembering Capt. Villaume's service in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot.

In Memory of Frederic Bold

In Memory of Eugene Dusenberry

In Memory of Marvin H. Locey

Philip O. Jacobs, Navy, OH