Hi, >From Waco Tribune Herald - May 28, 2001- Island of Ishigaki , south of Okinawa is claimed by natives to be haunted by the ghosts of Three American Airmen and one official has been behind the movement to build them a memorial so their ghosts will feel at rest and be ready to journey on to a happier place. This is Japanese territory today. .U.S. Navy airmen- 1. Robert Tuggle Junior, of Brownwood , Texas with close kin in Hillsboro, Texas. His mother was so upset that the family would not mention his name again 2. Lt. Vernon Tebo- wife lives in Florida 3. Loyd enlisted in Kansas but friends said he was from Long Island, N.Y. Two were beheaded by Imperial Japanese soldiers. The third was bayonet practice. When War Crimes trials started the War vet officers dug them up. cremated them and dumped ashes far out at sea. Natives have revealed the story to a Japanese professor who started the move for a monument and transportation to the groundbreaking ceremonies today. There will be 3 steps , one for each soldier, three solar lights, and three spires under a Japanese Archway. My Great Grandmother Ella Hatchett Wyly of Selden, Texas was the granddaughter of Liza or Elizabeth Tuggle of Georgia but came to Texas and is buried in the Selden Hatchett Cemetery. I have a copy of a large book of the historyof the Tarrant, Tuggle, and Herndon Families of Bradford England who were a united family which made military uniforms for worldwide trade for 400 years before coming to Jamestown, Va. . One had donated the Christ Church in Bradford, England to the pariisioners, Some records show the Belgian name before that was Tugglestine Liza Tuggle is buried near her son Dr. & Rev.W.P.Hatchett and Valley Mills and Gonzales , Texas and church organizer from Waco to Erath County, Texas. He had other Georgia Brothers , 3 were frontier ministers in Texas, as well as Stevens in laws who were frontier Preacher ordained in Georgia and buried in Selden and other Cemeteries. , The above are buried in Selden Hatchett cemetery.I understand some Tuggle and Tennessee Hatchett graves are in Chalk Mountain, Erath County, Texas. At least 7 Hatchetts married Wylys, so, descendants of the Tuggle Family are now found in Mongolia, New Guinea, Australia and other countries. , some as Missionaries. Why have we let some disidents hold us back so much that the Japanese people build a monument to 3 of their enemy before our own Congress builds a memorial to our WW2 Vets? Pres. Bush now has set aside a place for it and will push for its completion. Also, If anyone knows of a National or State memorial solely for Korean Vets? Even Waco has built a Generic monument , listing wars but left Korean War out. "Nuf Sed" Charles A. Wyly, Stateside Korean War Vet.