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View a eulogy for Joseph Daniel Toomey, USMA '49, who passed away on February 28, 1951.

Joseph Daniel Toomey

West Point, 1949

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Terry Powers on November 5, 2022:

A classmate of my father Terence A Powers.
Lest We Forget is a phrase I have come to embrace.
I am locating the gravesites of these and others who have served our nation.

Died while Prisoner of War.
He was seriously wounded by the enemy in South Korea on October 5, 1950 and returned to duty on October 10, 1950.
He was taken Prisoner of War while fighting the enemy in Korea on November 28, 1950 and died while a prisoner on February 28, 1951.
His remains were not recovered.

You can visit the linked sites below and maybe leave a virtual flower in his memory.

Mount Wollaston Cemetery Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
www.findagrave.com/memorial/60401452/joseph-daniel-toomey

Honolulu Memorial Also known as Courts of the Missing
www.findagrave.com/memorial/187110452/joseph-daniel-toomey

National Korean War Veterans Memorial
www.findagrave.com/memorial/119143135/joseph-daniel-toomey


 
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