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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 8363218, member: 44132&quot;]On this Memorial Day, I would like to say thank you to the families of the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.&nbsp; I have two in my family that I know of for sure.&nbsp; The first is my Great, Great Grandfather, John Osborne, who was a member of Thurmond’s Partisan Rangers raised for the Confederate service primarily from Fayette, Greenbrier, and Monroe counties, West Virginia (then Virginia) during the spring and summer of 1862.&nbsp; John Osborne was killed in action at Winfield, Putnam County. </p><p><br /></p><p>The second in my family was my Uncle, Jamie Osborne, who was killed in Italy during WWII.&nbsp; I do not have any particulars of his unit or how he was killed.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would also like to memorialize a great friend, James D. Fountain, a fellow member of the Phoenix Program in Vietnam.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>And to make this about coins, I will post a coin of one of 9 emperors who died in battle:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1484277[/ATTACH] </p><p>VALENS</p><p>AV Solidus</p><p>OBVERSE: DN VALENS PER F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped &amp; cuirassed bust right</p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; RESTITVTOR REIPUBLICAE, Valens standing right, holding labarum in right hand &amp; Victory on globe in left, cross to left. Mintmark star ANTE star</p><p>Struck at Antioch, 364 AD</p><p>3.6g, 19mm</p><p>Antioch RIC 2d,xxxvii-5</p><p><br /></p><p>He died during a retreat from a battle with the Goths in 378 AD[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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