Posted By:	Bill Jones
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	Subject:	Re: DOWNER, Garett J.
	Post Date:	March 17, 2012 at 17:43:07
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ky/christian/messages/732.html
	Forum:	Christian County, KY Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/ky/christian/

I could never thank you and Lt. Garnett Downer's mother for this heroic man's life giving service to our country information. My fifteen year search has been rewarded indeed, but I surely wish he could have come home to his family. I will never forget and will tell my children, grand children, and great grand children of what this man did for them and their country. Do you know who he married? I joined the U.S. Navy in June 1940 and had been in service 18 months when Pearl Harbor was bombed. I left the navy in 1948 and entered Ole Miss. During the war I attended Officer training school at Harvard and accumulated enough credit I was able to graduate from University of Mississippi Pharmacy college in two years. Is there anyway I could contack Mrs. Gail McCullough? Sincerely, Bill Jones