Maxwell: local ‘patriots’ instilled loyalty, integrity

Posted on June 2, 2021

While the U.S. Army shaped the man that Tracy Maxwell would become, it was the military patriots surrounding him in his youth that instilled the principles loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and personal courage.

“Growing up here in Perry, I didn’t realize it then, but I was surrounded by military patriots who programmed me back in the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a young boy, I remember my late grandmother, Cula Mae Sneed, going to visit the home of Eva Mae Bishop, whose son had been injured in Vietnam. I remember the stories of Pastor Izell Montgomery, Charles August and the legendary Sam ‘Chief’ Turner, who would tell me about the Triple Nickel, 555th Tank Battalion.

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