Wellston Auxiliary Information Page Post 371

10/14/2026

10/12/2026

🇺🇸 Happy 251st birthday United States Navy! 🇺🇸
Established October 13th 1775.
Donna Smith ALA

10/12/2026

🇺🇸 Never forget.. these men or any of the others who have been murdered by terrorists, whose evil ideology drives them to murder and world domination eliminating anyone without mercy or care of age or gender, who is not them.. anyone who dares to exhibit any independent thought or freedom of their own soul. The only comparable ideology I can think of easily is the National Socialist German Workers Party.. which unsurprisingly these two ideologies joined together in unity and as allies during World War II. However if they would have been successful they would have tried to destroy each other because neither of them could tolerate anyone who was not exactly like them.. Both equally evil but evil cannot cohabitate even with itself.. both spread like a cancer as evil does. Remember these men whose lives were taken and all those like them who have laid down their lives in defense of the innocent against this evil and all the other victims throughout the world past, present and those whose lives are being taken even as we speak because evil never rests, so neither can good. Because the only thing it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing, it must be resisted and defeated everywhere it is until it is not. We will not forget.. nor will we rest until our children everywhere can lay down their heads in peace. 🇺🇸🌹🙏 Donna Smith ALA, 40&8LF

In Honor of the Courageous Men and Women of THE USS COLE (DDG-67)
Who Perished in Service to Their Country on
October 12, 2000

The USS Cole is a guided missile destroyer in the US Navy, commissioned on June 8, 1996, and homeported at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

On October 12, 2000, while making a scheduled refueling stop in the port of Aden, Yemen, two su***de bombers in a small craft laden with explosives pulled alongside the port side of the ship and detonated the charge, blowing a 40 foot wide hole near the galley.

17 U.S. sailors were killed who left 11 children behind, and 39 others were wounded. The attack was planned and executed by the terrorist group al-Qaeda.

We remember the service and sacrifice of our brave Navy servicemen and vow to never forget them.

🌹Lt. j.g. Andrew Triplett (31, Macon, Mississippi)

🌹ETC Richard D. Costelow (35, Morrisville, Pennsylvania)

🌹EW1 Kevin S. Rux (30, Portland, North Dakota)

🌹HT2 Kenneth E. Clodfelter (21, Mechanicsville, Virginia)

🌹EN2 Mark I. Nieto (24, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin)

🌹EW2 Ronald S. Owens (24, Vero Beach, Florida)

🌹OS2 Timothy L. Saunders (32, Ringgold, Virginia)

🌹MS3 Ronchester M. Santiago (22, Kingsville, Texas)

🌹MSSN Lakeina M. Francis (19, Woodleaf, North Carolina)

🌹ISSN Timothy L. Gauna (21, Rice, Texas)

🌹SMSN Cherone L. Gunn (22, Rex, Georgia)

🌹ISSN James R. McDaniels (19, Norfolk, Virginia)

🌹SN Lakiba N. Palmer (22, San Diego, California)

🌹ENFN Joshua L. Parlett (19, Churchville, Maryland)

🌹FN Patrick H. Roy (19, Cornwall on Hudson, New York)

🌹FN Gary Swenchonis Jr. (26, Rockport, Texas)

🌹SN Craig B. Wibberley (19, Williamsport, Maryland

10/09/2026

Wellston's own... We will never forget.🇺🇸🌹 Donna Smith ALA

Navy Lt. j.g. Stephen Byus
Died September 16, 2014 Serving During Operation Enduring Freedom
39, a Defense Department civilian supply specialist working for the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime based in Columbus, Ohio, died Sept. 16, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in a su***de car bombing. Byus, who was in the Navy Reserve but was not mobilized at the time of his death, was assigned to the Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan. Also killed was Army Maj. Michael J. Donahue, 41, of Columbus, Ohio, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

10/08/2026

🇺🇸 Freedom is not free but this dinner is.🇺🇸
For our Veterans...
Free VETERANS DAY DINNER to honor all Veterans. Veterans may bring one guest with them to the Dinner.
Please RSVP so we will know how much food will be needed for this dinner.
Thank you for your service.🌹

10/07/2026

Twenty-five years ago today, Operation Enduring Freedom began in Afghanistan in response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

As a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq, I honor the men and women who answered the call during the Global War on Terror. We remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice and the military families who sacrificed alongside them.

Their service and sacrifice must never be forgotten.

10/07/2026

🌹🇮🇱 This is Israel's 9/11... the difference being they live in the middle of terrorists and here terrorists live in the middle of us. We cannot forget, nor can we allow terrorism and terrorists to exist anywhere. There is no place in the world for people like this, if you can call them people. During October 7th terrorist attacks 36 children were murdered brutally, horrifically.. murdered in Cold Blood, while parents watched. During those attacks 500 children lost their parents... 1200 innocent people were brutally hunted down in their homes and their neighborhoods and slaughtered. During America's September 11th attacks eight children were killed.... 3000 children lost their parents. Not soldiers, not people who were in a battle, people like us, just living their lives thinking it was a normal day, until a demonic evil beyond comprehension, struck in planned attacks to kill them. For 72 hours families were brutally beaten, r***d, set on fire and murdered in many other horrific ways.. in their homes... in their neighborhoods.. parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents. Survivors drug off and kidnapped where they were beaten, r***d and tortured further... for years. They not only planned it and did it.. they filmed it, and just like our 9/11, they CELEBRATED it. The war on terror can never be over until the world is free from this everywhere. I pray for the Peace of Jerusalem, and I pray that America is never in a position like Israel is. Where we are surrounded and totally infiltrated by our enemies so they have access to us at will.. to attack, to murder, to terrorize. It is better to fight the enemy on their territory in their streets than in ours. God bless our Armed Forces who fight to keep us safe everyday and our Department of Home Security who works to find the evil that is among us, our Border Patrol who work diligently to keep them from our borders our Federal Marshals, ICE Agents, Police Departments and Sheriff's Offices who are boots on the ground where needed working with them all. God bless them all.. May their memories be blessed. NEVER AGAIN. 🙏
D.G.Smith