Tahoma National Cemetery
This video is a tribute to the men and women who have served in the military and honored at Tahoma National Cemetery, in Kent, Washington. Produced by Millstream Video, it depicts a Committal Service of a veteran, performed by the Native American Veteran Service Organization.
Tahoma National Cemetery, Washington
A National Cemetery in Washington State.
Tahoma National Cemetery
Located in Covington Washington this new cemetery honors veterans during their Annual Memorial Day Service. National Cemeteries were originally started by Lincoln in 1860. We continue the tradition today as there are 18 more planned for construction in the coming years.
Memorial Day 2018 Tahoma National Cemetery
The fly over performed by the Cascade Wartbirds in the missing man formation during the Memorial Day ceremonies at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington.
Finishing touches made to State Veterans Cemetery
On Memorial Day, Washington's first State Veterans Cemetery will be dedicated in Medical Lake. Until now, the nearest veterans cemetery was in Kent, Washington -- nearly 300 miles away. KXLY4's Colleen O'Brien reports.
Unclaimed Veteran Warren G Robinson at Rest
Unclaimed Veteran Warren G Robinson Interment
Monday Sept. 28 1PM - 2PM
Tahoma National Cemetery, 18600 SE 240th Street, Kent, WA
Warren G. Robinson Jr. was interred with military honors on Monday, 28 October 2019, at Tahoma National Cemetery. Mr. Robinson is an unclaimed veteran.
The public was invited via social media and hundreds of veterans, spouses, civilians who felt compelled to attend, children and Veteran's Groups refused to allow this hero to be put to rest unaccompanied. The service was patriotic and proud, as it should have been RIP Sir.
Warren Gene Robinson Jr. (67) was interred with full military honors at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent. Robinson is an Army veteran who served as a P1 during Vietnam.
Warren was born in Vancouver, WA on January 5, 1952, to Warren Eugene, Sr., and George Ann (Selph) Robinson. He resided in Longview, WA and passed away July 4, 2019, at the Longview Care Center.
As an unclaimed veteran, Robinson has no family to attend his funeral. The public was invited to come pay their respects to honor this veteran and his service to our country.
Tahoma National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Kent, in King County, Washington.
Douglas & Lea Cook
October 28, 2019
Warren Gene Robinson Jr. Unclaimed Veteran. You did not go to rest alone. You were surrounded by perhaps unknown but loyal friends today. Among us were fellow Veterans, Active duty, Retired, Disabled as well as spouses, children and civilians who felt compelled to attend due to a simple message on social media. Your service was attended by hundreds of patriotic citizens who wanted to honor a hero. That we did. May God bless you sir, and rest assured you are not alone or unclaimed. Thank you for your devotion and service. Respectfully LCdr. and Mrs. Douglas Cook USN Ret. REST IN PEACE
Nathan Ross Chapman*(23 April 1970-4 January 2002)After 13 years, CIA honors Fort Lewis Green Beret
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Nathan Ross Chapman was first military death from enemy fire in the Afghanistan War
Birth name Nathan Ross Chapman
Born 23 April 1970
Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, U.S.
Died 4 January 2002 (aged 31)
Gardez, Afghanistan †
Buried at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, Washington
Nathan Ross Chapman (23 April 1970 – 4 January 2002) was a United States Army Sergeant First Class with the 1st Special Forces Group. He was the first American soldier to be killed in combat in the war in Afghanistan.
Chapman was responsible for assembling the team’s communication equipment. At the time, interfacing satellite radios and computers was a new discipline, but it was something Chapman had already mastered. He was known throughout 1st Special Forces group as the best in his field, earning the reputation during repeated deployments to places such as Thailand and Malaysia with special forces teams.
Aside from setting up the radios, Chapman also was instructed on software that allowed CIA and military units to see what was happening on the battlefield in real time.
INTO PAKISTAN
In the run-up to Hotel’s departure, other CIA and Special Operations forces teams had been scattered throughout Afghanistan. But before Hotel would join its sister elements in Afghanistan, Chapman and the rest of the team would first fly to Jacobabad, Pakistan.
The team began trying to work a deal with the Pakistani military to get to their side of the border south of the Afghan city of Jalalabad to box in and find Osama bin Laden, said Scott Satterlee, a Special Forces medic detailed to Hotel with Chapman.
The deal fell through when the Pakistani military demanded more training and equipment than the small team could provide and offered little knowledge of the lawless border region where Hotel was trying to go.
As things unraveled in Pakistan, U.S. and Afghan forces seized Kabul and, just days after Thanksgiving, Hotel left Pakistan for Afghanistan’s capital.
Hotel stayed in Kabul for about a month, spending Christmas there. A detachment of operators from Joint Special Operations Command brought the team to 11 members for an upcoming mission in Khost, a rugged town on Afghanistan’s eastern border.
Christmas was the last time Chapman called home, his father recalled. He didn’t tell them where he was, just that he was safe. He passed the phone around to his mother, Lynn, and to Keith Chapman, his older brother who was recently married. His grandmother and grandfather also managed to get on the line.
“I said to him at the end of the conversation, I’m sorry you’re not able to be with your family,” his father said.
“I know, Dad,” he replied. “But I’m with my second family, and they’re a great bunch of guys.”
FINAL BATTLE
About a week later, Hotel loaded onto one of the CIA’s Russian-built Mi-17 helicopters and flew the 90 miles to Khost. Satterlee said the agency had to pay its way into the town, offering large sums of money to one of the tribes in exchange for admission and some protection.
Hotel would go in and “plant the flag” for the CIA and deny al-Qaida a base of operations, according to a CIA officer present during the team’s operations who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a covert operation. They were the first Americans there since the war began.
The team set up, along with some of their newly acquired Afghan escorts, a rudimentary base of operations in an old Russian schoolhouse in the middle of town during the final days of the year.
The night before Chapman’s death, a four-man element from Hotel slipped into the darkness to conduct reconnaissance on an abandoned Soviet airfield a few miles away, returning after taking small-arms fire.
The airfield later would be named after Chapman and was the site of a suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in 2009.
The Camp Chapman attack was a suicide attack by Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi against the Central Intelligence Agency facility inside Forward Operating Base Chapman on December 30, 2009.