remembering the fallen
The following Roaring Fork Valley residents were killed in action, and the list is read each year as part of the Memorial Day ceremony:
World War I: Peter F. Galligan (Aspen)
World War II: Julio L. Caparella (Aspen), Thomas R. McNeil (Aspen), Joseph W. Morgan (Aspen)
Korea: James Bionaz (Aspen)
Vietnam: Edward Kettering Marsh (Aspen), William Leonard Sanderson (Aspen), Danny Gilbert Schwartz (Aspen), Billy Floyd Clark (Basalt), Charles Leland Adkins (Glenwood Springs), Michael Filbert Gonzales (Glenwood Springs), Larry Russell Kennann (Glenwood Springs), James Richard Smith (Rifle), Thomas Lynn Griffee (Rifle)
Middle East: William H. Dubois (New Castle)*
*NOTE: Dubois was a U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot who was killed in action in December 2014 in support of Operation Inherent Rescue. For security reasons the Air Force has not released the country where he was deployed but it was not Iraq or Syria.