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Jeffersons Ghost

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Fri Sep 16, 2016, 09:54 AM Sep 2016

I found a story on military personnel, who never receive "Thanks for your Service."

Serving in Silence: NSA's Fallen Comrades

Sixteen days before the Korean War ended in July 1953, Army Pvt. Jay Stoner died from a shrapnel wound after crawling onto a battlefield amid heavy shelling to fix a communications line.

For Stoner, a cryptologic technician with the 304th Communications Group, fixing the line meant saving lives. It connected front-line intercept stations near Chinese positions at Kumsong to American field commanders who needed tactical intelligence on when and where the enemy was advancing.

Stoner's act of heroism made him the first employee of the National Security Agency to die in the line of duty. His name comes first on a polished granite memorial wall at NSA headquarters inscribed with the words, "They Served In Silence."

Until now, the secretive agency has remained silent about how they died. But that changed at a Memorial Day service last week, when Stoner became the first NSA casualty whose story was told publicly by the agency. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/05/28/serving-in-silence-nsas-fallen-comrades/24032392-6c38-4e92-b230-6cce57363d7a/

In future posts - on this thread - I will tell a true, unlikely story, not even the NSA online, agents, originally called the Armed F]orces Security Agency lacks intelligence on. Years ago, when I first heard of the NSA, I began online research of the world's most diverse intelligence agency. The true story actually occurred.
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I found a story on military personnel, who never receive "Thanks for your Service." (Original Post) Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2016 OP
Thanks for the recommendations. If you want to read about the true story reply... Jeffersons Ghost Sep 2016 #1
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