Daily Archives: September 12, 2010

Though I haven’t seen Pat in several years…family, work and distance took its toll…I expected to see him at the O’Callahan Society Reunion at the Holy Cross Fall Homecoming. It had been too long since I had a chance to … Continue reading →

Below are a collection of comments, stories, and memories from the men who served with our father in the 1st 8″ Howitzer Battery. My deepest sympathy to the Townsend family. I served under Capt. Townsend in 1968 and interacted with … Continue reading →

Shocked. Numbed. Angered. Those involved in the profession of arms develop not an ambivalence but grudging acquiescence that in combat they or someone close may, no will, be here one moment and abruptly gone the next. Pat was supposed to … Continue reading →