Greetings! My name is Debbie. I'm a Texas native, born in San Antonio, living in Fort Worth. I'm both an Army brat and 14-yr US Air Force Reserve veteran. My husband, Steve (1948-2020), a USAF (ret.) F-4D Weapons System Officer/Vietnam War veteran. My roots are in Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina; my husband's are in Alabama.

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My Father, Sgt Maj Charles James Metcalf (1919-1993) is interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. U.S. Army service 1940-1966, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. My Mother, Nadine Slayton (1928-2010).
Thank you so much for visiting them :). The tokens and sentiments you leave are so beautiful!
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Attention: Visitors to Find A Grave Memorials

* Thank you for additional information and corrections to memorials I create and maintain. Thank you for your time and interest!

** Just so you know ... Content for memorials I create and maintain has multiple sources, some including family genealogists and stories/bibles/photo albums/scrapbooks, personal knowledge, FaG site contributors, cemetery walking, online research, transcribed records, and the kind folks who write me with additional information and corrections. Please note content cannot be guaranteed and you are encouraged to check your own sources.

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Thank you to those of you expressing your appreciation for my military service, as well as for the work on this awesome site. You are so great! When I hear gratitude from people for creating their family memorials and providing cemetery pictures, it inspires me to continue on. I am especially touched by notes like the following:

"I just wanted to thank you for putting the photo of my father's grave on the "Find a Grave" website. Today is his birthday. He is buried in Texas, and I am in Pittsburgh. The photo you posted is the only reference I can find to him online, and it is letting me feel, in some small way, like I am there with him. Thank you so much. It really means a lot to me."

"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this picture of my father's headstone. He just now got a headstone after nine years. The picture you took of it was the first time I have seen it. So thank you very much."

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THIS IS A CEMETERY

Lives are commemorated,
deaths are recorded,
families are reunited,
memories are made tangible,
and love is undisguised.
This is a cemetery.

Communities accord respect,
families bestow reverence,
historians seek information
and our heritage is thereby
enriched.

Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not the death, of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people, a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering, always.

~ Author unknown ~

Greetings! My name is Debbie. I'm a Texas native, born in San Antonio, living in Fort Worth. I'm both an Army brat and 14-yr US Air Force Reserve veteran. My husband, Steve (1948-2020), a USAF (ret.) F-4D Weapons System Officer/Vietnam War veteran. My roots are in Texas, Arkansas and North Carolina; my husband's are in Alabama.

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My Father, Sgt Maj Charles James Metcalf (1919-1993) is interred at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. U.S. Army service 1940-1966, World War II, Korea, Vietnam. My Mother, Nadine Slayton (1928-2010).
Thank you so much for visiting them :). The tokens and sentiments you leave are so beautiful!
__________________________________

Attention: Visitors to Find A Grave Memorials

* Thank you for additional information and corrections to memorials I create and maintain. Thank you for your time and interest!

** Just so you know ... Content for memorials I create and maintain has multiple sources, some including family genealogists and stories/bibles/photo albums/scrapbooks, personal knowledge, FaG site contributors, cemetery walking, online research, transcribed records, and the kind folks who write me with additional information and corrections. Please note content cannot be guaranteed and you are encouraged to check your own sources.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Thank you to those of you expressing your appreciation for my military service, as well as for the work on this awesome site. You are so great! When I hear gratitude from people for creating their family memorials and providing cemetery pictures, it inspires me to continue on. I am especially touched by notes like the following:

"I just wanted to thank you for putting the photo of my father's grave on the "Find a Grave" website. Today is his birthday. He is buried in Texas, and I am in Pittsburgh. The photo you posted is the only reference I can find to him online, and it is letting me feel, in some small way, like I am there with him. Thank you so much. It really means a lot to me."

"Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking this picture of my father's headstone. He just now got a headstone after nine years. The picture you took of it was the first time I have seen it. So thank you very much."

~*~*~*~*~*~*~
______________________________________
THIS IS A CEMETERY

Lives are commemorated,
deaths are recorded,
families are reunited,
memories are made tangible,
and love is undisguised.
This is a cemetery.

Communities accord respect,
families bestow reverence,
historians seek information
and our heritage is thereby
enriched.

Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not the death, of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.

A cemetery is a history of people, a perpetual record of yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is worth loving and remembering, always.

~ Author unknown ~