Posted by XXXXXX on October 27, 2003:

THOMAS A. WARE JR. Army Colonel Thomas Allen Ware, Jr. , 78. a retired Army colonel who taught history at Northern Virginia Community College in the mid-1980?s died October 19th at Woodbine Rehabilitation and Health Care Center in Alexandria. He had lung cancer. Colonel Ware, an Alexandria resident, served in the Army from 1948 to 1978, during which time he was a parachutist and Army Ranger. He served three tours in Viet Nam during the war there. He received the Silver Star for his actions while leading a battalion on a night raid of the village of Go Noi in August 1967. Under intense enemy fire, he disregarded his own safety to regroup his men and complete the mission. His other decorations included three awards of the Legion of Merit and two awards of the Bronze Star. His final active duty assignment was at the Army War College in Pennsylvania. He was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, and a 1948 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY. He also attended the Army Command and General Staff College and the Air War College. He received a master?s degree in history at George Washington University. He settled in the Washington area in the late 1970s and then spent a few years at BDM Corp. in McLean on a project reviewing strategic lessons of the Vietnam War. He was a member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Alexandria, where he sang in the choir, and was a board member and church historian. He was also a member of the Civil War Round Table of Alexandria and the Military Classics Seminar at Fort Meyer. His first wife, Ann Spettel Ware, whom he married in 1951, died in 1994. Survivors include his wife, Lee Johnson Ware, whom he married in 1997, of Alexandria; four children from his first marriage, Patricia Ware of Alexandria, Carolyn Ware of Baton Rouge, LA., and Virginia Ware and Thomas Ware III , both of Seattle; three stepchildren, Dara Gideos of Rockville, Greg Johnson of Austin and Loren Johnson of Seattle ; two sisters, Beatrice Evans of Richmond and Nancy Heath of Columbus, OH.; a brother Charles Ware of Chillicothe; and three grandchildren.

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