Band of Brothers - Brothers in Arms

Band of Brothers from Golspie, Scotland - Willie, Archie and Jack

"Through these fields of destruction

Baptisms of fire

I've witnessed your suffering

As the battles raged higher

And though they hurt me so bad

In the fear and alarm

You did not desert me

My brothers in arms"

"Brothers In Arms", Dire Straits

On this Veteran's Day, I celebrate my own Band of Brothers/Brothers in Arms - the four Munro brothres from Scotland, the three Munro brothers from Crosby, ND, and others too - my brother, my husband, my father and his father.

Great Uncle Archibald "Archie" Munro, Canadian Army,

WWI, gassed April 1915,

Ypres, France, died in 1921 as a result

Great Uncle John Alexander "Jack" Munro,

King's Own Scottish Borders (Scotland), WWI,

Killed April 12, 1917, in France.

Awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry.

Great Uncle William Munro,

Seaforth Higlanders, Scotland,

WWI, killed Nov. 13, 1916,

in Beaumont Hamel, France

Maternal Grandfather Duncan Munro, Canadian Rifles.

WWI ended before he could be sent overseas.

Paternal Grandfather Clarence Bartell Rockney,

 (no photo available), U. S. Army "doughboy",

Served in France, WWI

Father Forrest "Sonny" Rockney, U.S. Navy, WWII

Uncle Donald Alexander Munro, U.S. Army

Served in Germany in WWII

Uncle James "Scotty" Munro, U.S. Army

Served in Germany in WWII

Uncle David Allan Munro, U.S. Army

Served in Germany, peacetime

Husband Daniel Bruce Fredericksen,

U. S. Navy, Served in Vietnam, 1968-1969

Brother John Allan Johnson

82nd Airborne (paratrooper),

U. S. Army, served in peacetime. 

For Veterans' Day 2009 I wrote an entire post devoted to Archie, William and Jack. To read it, click here: http://celticanamcara.blogspot.com/2009/11/lest-we-forget.html.

Postcard created by my Scottish 2nd cousin Shirley,

featuring William and Jack Munro and the WWI monument

in Golspie, Scotland with a backdrop of Golspie.

"At the going down of the sun

And in the morning

We will remember"