First Name: Raymond
Last Name: McCulloch
Middle Initial:
Date of Birth: N/A
Sex: Male
Martial Status: Not Sure
Number of Children: Yes
Home Town: Unknown
Education Completed: Not Sure
Other Occupations:
Branch of Service: Marines
Highest Rank: Sgt
Serial Number: N/A
Platoon: N/A
Age at Start of Service: Not Sure
Years of Service: Not Sure
Combat Veteran: Yes
Time in Combat: Not Sure
Place of Combat: N/A
Awards:
Date of Suicide: N/A
Suicide Method: gun shot
Veteran’s Story: In a room in a city, surrounded by concrete, bricks and steel with only a bottle for a friend and the sights and sounds of a war long gone by numbing his brain, a Cherokee brother decided, that the mystery of the next world was easier to bear, than the reality of this world. One less pipe carrier, one less vision fulfilled, one less brother on the journey, an empty place in the circle. Without benefit of pipes, drums, songs, tobacco, ties, colored cloth or eagle feathers. A Cherokee brother began a long journey with a bullet. Grandfather, Great Mystery, forgive him his mistakes, forgive us all our apathy. Gather close his tortured spirit and lead him home. Raymond was separated from his family and living alone in, I believe Baltimore Md. He was found with a bottle, the gun and a copy of Apocalypse Now playing on the VCR. I don’t remember the date, but I still feel the guilt, for not being there for him.
Submitted By: Eileen Evans
Relationship to Veteran: Friend
