O'Nealls/O'Neals/O'Neills/O'Neils/O'Nexlx: Here is a quote from history: "God and the soldier, all men adore in time of strife, and not before. When danger is past and all wrongs arighted God is forgotten, the Old Soldier slighted" -an anonymous soldier under the Duke of Marlborough circa 1705 Let us not forget . . .so, Here are some genealogy web sites for your ancestors' military records courtesy of Myra Vanderpool Gormley of Tacoma WA who writes "Shaking Your Family Tree" [read her column at http://www.ancestry.com/home/Myra_Vanderpool_Gormley/Shaking_Family_Tree10-30- 97.htm] Military Records for Genealogy at www.usigs.org/library/military/links/index.htm Official WWII casualty list, Pearl Harbor, and Korea and Vietnam at www.nara.gov/genealogy/ [select "Military Records"] Military Rosters of Ohio Unit Rosters, War of 1812 at the Ohio Historical Society at www.ohiohistory.org/resource/database United States Colored Troops at www.itd.nps/gov/cwss/usct.html Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System at www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ National Personnel Records Center (WWI and later) www.nara.gov/regional/stlouis.html you can order Form 80 to request military pension and service records prior to WWI or Form 180 for after WWI by sending email to inquirearch2.nara.gov. All the best to all of you Veterans and your families! Bob O'Neal in Tacoma