There is a long history of military service in my family:
Soldiers in Revolutionary War:
Samuel Cary Scarborough (1752–1809) • 3rd great grandfather
Zadock Barnett (1745-1823) • 4th great grandfather.
John Cash (1757-1836) 4th great grandfather
James Townes (1756-1844) • 4th great grandfather
John Keen I (1748-1797) • 4th great grandfather
George Young (1730–1791) • 5th great-grandfather
Gen. George Washington (1732-1799) • 3rd cousin 6x removed
Brig. Gen. Tristram Thomas (1752-1817) • 4th great uncle
William Barnett (1761-1804) • 7th great uncle
Joel Barnett (1762–1851) • 7th great uncle
Capt. Joseph Regan (1749-1814) • 1st cousin 6x removed
Capt. Elias Isaac Dubose (1737–1789) • 1st cousin 7x removed
Pvt. James Parker (1740-1813) • 2nd cousin 8x removed
Lieut. John Leigh "Jack” Townes (1733-1805) • 6th great uncle
James Scarborough (1748–1836) • 4th great uncle
Robert Thomas (1733-1817) • 4th great uncle
James Cain (1748–1826) • 5th great uncle
Howard Cash (1754–1843) • 5th great-uncle
Peter Cash (1759–1832 • 5th great-uncle
Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) • 3rd cousin, 7x removed
War of 1812:
James White (1796–1861) • 3rd great-grandfather
Confederate Soldiers, the War Between the States:
Gen. Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) • 5th cousin, 4x removed
William Lawrence Thomas (1842-1912) • great grandfather
William Lafayette Keen (1837–1918) • 2nd great uncle
John Mallory Keen (1842–1862) • 2nd great uncle
George Washington Keen (1844–1885) • 2nd great uncle
WWII:
William Luther Brown (1911–1998) • Uncle, US Army, POW in German prison camp
James Royce Brown (1909–1979) • Uncle, Served on warship in the Pacific theater
Henry Taylor Brown (1917–1986) • Uncle, served in Patton’s “Ghost Troops”, drove a tank from Utah Beach into Germany, one of eight tanks that survived out of 58.
Duane Vernon Swanson (1931–2002) • Uncle, US Air Force, ret., Navigator
Larry Warren Brown (1945– ) • Brother, US Navy, ret. Captain
Deborah Ann Brown (1963– ) • Niece, US Army, nurse
War in Iraq:
Willliam Lawrence Brown (1972– ) • Nephew, Army, tank.