Family Military History 1898-2009

I think that it is important in these turbulent and changing times for the people to know who they are voting for and their core values. Too many times we have to vote for someone because a power broker in a  political party basically places them on the ballot. We are looking to bring America back to those core values that have made us great. That's what I want for my children and the reason I am running for office. I was raised by a few generations of men who basically  saved the world, and our country. I know that they would have expected me to do the same without hesitation. They instilled in me those core values.

Grandpa Willy (Big Bill)   1917 US Army on The Texas Border Gramps had to join twice as they sent him home for being 16 the first time. He was born in NY around 1898. His family had come to the US in the 1880's. He told us he was inspired by the stories of his Uncles who he said rode in the Calvary and told him stories of cowboys and Indians.

He Fought Pancho Villa Being in the Horse Business in NY he joined to ride with General Black Jack Pershing against Pancho Villa ,  and he did in a mechanized unit.  He would  finally get mounted and then be captured by Villa's men  while on patrol. He always showed off the permanent dent in the back of his head where they had struck him with the butt of a rifle upon capture. He was one tough guy.

We don't have documentation to prove that his Uncles (my great Uncles) actually served in the Cavalry around 1898, but we believe that they did, as he told stories about them for his entire life.

He Was A Leader In The Original March On Washington
	1930 "The Bonus Army" The self-named Bonus Expeditionary Force was an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers & 17,000  World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups, who protested in Washington, D.C., in spring and summer of 1932.  Grandpa Willy was the Commander of the Brooklyn contingent. The Bonus Marchers were more popularly known as the Bonus Army.  The war veterans, many of whom had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, sought immediate cash payment of Service Certificates granted to them eight years earlier by congress.
			The article below is an article about the Old Glory War Veterans, a NY contingent to the March on Washington. Grandpa Willy was the Commander of the group. He was famous for supposedly telling McArthur to get down from that & *^%$ horse and I'll kick your ^&*&^%$. He was an interesting guy and he shared with me many times the feelings of the new freedoms (for many)  in the turn of the century America. The frustration of the Depression and the patriotism that they all felt to this relatively new nation.
				Prepared to fight it out if it took all summer or longer--the Brooklyn boys, members of Old Glory War veterans Association had one hut already completed and another underway, when news of capitulation of District of Columbia officials was received.

Lou Horn 82nd Airborne 507 PIR 1944
	The bravery of  our Paratroopers in World War II  has been grippingly told in The Band of Brothers Series which featured the 506 PIR. The 507PIR was no different and these men changed the world forever. My Dad was one of those men. From Normandy to Berlin they exemplified the best that America is. Visit His Memorial Website Here Growing up and marching in the Veterans & memorial dqay parades and getting to know the men that he knew all of their lives instilled in me a vision of America that can not be changed.
		Lou Horn in Berlin In 1944
						Lou gives a benediction at the 2002 dedication of the monument in France to the men of the 507th.

	Uncle Harry Solomon Islands 1944 Uncle Harry was in the army with MacArthur in the Philippines. He lived next door to me my entire childhood and raised me like a second dad. I started working with him at about eight years old as a helper in his swimming pool installation company. When I was seventeen he had his first heart attack and I helped to run the business for him. The principles of hard work patriotism and Loyalty, that he passed to me, have been invaluable in my life.

						Junior,  Captain USMC 2010 The picture on the left is my Dad and I at Junior's Graduation from Annapolis. A very proud moment for all of us.  He has shown a level of commitment and grit that surpasses any that we have known. His successes are his own as he has always been his own man. As a boy he demonstrated a level of integrity and honor that  always made me feel that he would someday be a military officer. His wife is also a military officer.
				I Couldn't Be Any Prouder. No Dad Could Be.
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