Sons of the American Legion | Detachment of Arkansas

SQUADRON 1 - LITTLE ROCK

Jimmy L. Rhodes

SQUADRON 6 - POCAHONTAS

Dennis N. Brown

Ronnie G. Burgess

Gregory A. Gamso

Michael K. Griffith

Lyle Guthrie

Tommy Starr

SQUADRON 13 - HOT SPRINGS

Bob Eimer

Joel N. Hixon

Jerry Nooner

Reginald K. Rush

Byron M. Scott

Bobby J. White

Rufus E. Youngblood

SQUADRON 14 - HARRISBURG

John M. Denton

Randy Jones

SQUADRON 21 - JONESBORO

Burnis M. Posey

SQUADRON 23 - COTTER

Albert G. Sowa

SQUADRON 24 - BLYTHEVILLE

Ira N. Koonce

SQUADRON 27 - FAYETTEVILLE

Michael W. Hawkins

SQUADRON 34 - ATKINS

Bobby L. Barber

Doug Earnest

SQUADRON 64 - HEBER SPRINGS

Anthony Darby

Bruce Jameson

Fred Kohler

Gary Kuykendall

John Benny Liles

Robert Lee Marker

William "Bill" Music (Past Detachment Cmdr.)

Howard Pitt

Bobby R. Qualls

Carl "Larry" Reijba

Winston F. Wager

SQUADRON 81 - MELBOURNE

William E. Blackley

SQUADRON 91 - BEEBE

Nathaniel C. Crump

SQUADRON 100 - ROGERS

Thomas Easley

Gene Grainger

SQUADRON 166 - AUGUSTA

Ronald T. Stephens

SQUADRON 332 - MINERAL SPRINGS

Edward Bailey

SQUADRON 336 - HARDY

Calvin Hale

Harold K. Taylor

Bryan A. Fields

SQUADRON 341 - BELLA VISTA

Anthony A. Semski

When Sir William Russell, the English patriot went to the scaffold in 1683, he took his watch out of his pocket and handed it to the physician who attended him in his death. “Would you kindly take my timepiece?” he asked. “I have no use for it. I am now dealing with eternity.”

Beethoven had a friend, a baroness, who lost her only child and was desolate from the loss. Beethoven was so close to this family that he personally felt the loss and shared it as his own. When he visited his friend after the memorial service, he could find no word of comfort to speak for he had no word of comfort to say. He went to the piano and started to play a melody we now know as “The Moonlight Sonata.”

Even in the darkest night, he was trying to express the thought that there is harmony and life if we are sensitive enough to appreciate and hear. Afterward the baroness said, “He told me everything I needed to know.”

May there be comfort for the hearts of those who have experienced the passing of their loved one, friend and comrade.