PAT WAS BORN INTO A MILITARY FAMILY. HIS FATHER ED CONLEY WAS REGULAR ARMY A 20 YEAR MAN WHEN HE RETIRED. HE HAD SERVED AT FT. BLISS, TEXAS AND WAS IN 1ST CAV. THIS MAY EXPLAIN HOW "PAT" CAME BY HIS NAME PATTON, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS KNOWN AS PAT, NEVER JAMES OR JIM. IN THE 1960S HE JOINED THE ARMY AND WAS STATIONED NEAR ABILENE, TEXAS., HE WAS ASSIGNED TO A SILO MISSLE BASE NEAR ABILENE, TEXAS. HOWEVER IN THE LATE 60S HE VOLUNTEERED FOR DUTY IN VIETNAM. HE WAS SENT TO FT, CAMBELL, KENTUCKY FOR TRAINING IN HELICOPTER MAINTENANCE. HE WENT TO VIETNAM AROUND 1969 AND SERVED AS A SIDE GUNNER AND MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR , HE SIGNED UP FOR A 2ND TOUR OF DUTY, COMING STATE SIDE AROUND 1973. HE RETURNED TO TEXAS, GOT MARRIED AND HAD TWO SONS. TO START OFF A SAD LIFE, BOTH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN BECAME DRUG ADDICTS.
NOTHING IS KNOWN OF THEIR CONDITION OR WHERE THEY ARE. AS OF NOW(2006). PAT MARRIED AGAIN AND WAS LIVING IN NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS DRIVING TRUCKS FOR A LIVING. HE DISCOVERED HE HAD THROAT CANCER ABOUT 2 YEARS BEFORE HE DIED HE UNDERWENT SURGERY, RADIATION AND CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENTS, BUT TO NO AVAIL, DYING IN NOVEMBER, 1997. THE FAMOUS AGENT ORANGE WAS FOUND IN HIS TUMOR CELLS. A FEW MONTHS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH HE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOR. PAT IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER MOTHER, WIFE,OLDER BROTHER AND TWO SONS.PAT'S FATHER WAS EDWARD JOHN CONLEY(IN FIND A GRAVE) MOTHER IS FARRIS KINSER CONLEY.
THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL IN WASHINGTON, D. C. EFFECTIVELY HELPED SHAPE A REEXAMINATION OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN. IT SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM THE NEGATIVE STEROTYPES OF THE VETERAN THAT EVOLVED DURING THE WAR AND IN IT'S IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH AND ALLOWED PEOPLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LOSS OF MORE THAN 55,000 AMERICANS AND THE SACRIFICE OF THE OTHER TWO MILLION WHO SERVED. Pat received TWO medals --THE Republic of Vietnam Service Medal and the Purple Heart. 2 YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH HE MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE, DIANNA DARLENE TRANEY. IT WAS ALSO HER SECOND MARRIAGE AND SHE HAD CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. SO PAT BECAME A STEPFATHER. IN FACT PAT WAS AT ONE OF THE STEP DAUGHTERS HOME THE DAY HE DIED WHILE UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT PAT TO HAVE A SPECIAL DIET BECAUSE OF HIS THROAT. HIS WIFE, DIANNA MADE UP THE SPECIAL LIQUID DIET. , WHICH HAD TO BE COOLED. SHE TOOK GREAT PAINS TO BE SURE THE DIET WAS AVAILABLE AND AT THE CORRECT TEMPERATURE. SHE TRULY LOVED PAT AND TOOK GREAT CARE OF HIM.
NOTHING IS KNOWN OF THEIR CONDITION OR WHERE THEY ARE. AS OF NOW(2006). PAT MARRIED AGAIN AND WAS LIVING IN NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS DRIVING TRUCKS FOR A LIVING. HE DISCOVERED HE HAD THROAT CANCER ABOUT 2 YEARS BEFORE HE DIED HE UNDERWENT SURGERY, RADIATION AND CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENTS, BUT TO NO AVAIL, DYING IN NOVEMBER, 1997. THE FAMOUS AGENT ORANGE WAS FOUND IN HIS TUMOR CELLS. A FEW MONTHS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH HE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOR. PAT IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER MOTHER, WIFE,OLDER BROTHER AND TWO SONS.PAT'S FATHER WAS EDWARD JOHN CONLEY(IN FIND A GRAVE) MOTHER IS FARRIS KINSER CONLEY.
THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL IN WASHINGTON, D. C. EFFECTIVELY HELPED SHAPE A REEXAMINATION OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN. IT SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM THE NEGATIVE STEROTYPES OF THE VETERAN THAT EVOLVED DURING THE WAR AND IN IT'S IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH AND ALLOWED PEOPLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LOSS OF MORE THAN 55,000 AMERICANS AND THE SACRIFICE OF THE OTHER TWO MILLION WHO SERVED. Pat received TWO medals --THE Republic of Vietnam Service Medal and the Purple Heart. 2 YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH HE MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE, DIANNA DARLENE TRANEY. IT WAS ALSO HER SECOND MARRIAGE AND SHE HAD CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. SO PAT BECAME A STEPFATHER. IN FACT PAT WAS AT ONE OF THE STEP DAUGHTERS HOME THE DAY HE DIED WHILE UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT PAT TO HAVE A SPECIAL DIET BECAUSE OF HIS THROAT. HIS WIFE, DIANNA MADE UP THE SPECIAL LIQUID DIET. , WHICH HAD TO BE COOLED. SHE TOOK GREAT PAINS TO BE SURE THE DIET WAS AVAILABLE AND AT THE CORRECT TEMPERATURE. SHE TRULY LOVED PAT AND TOOK GREAT CARE OF HIM.
PAT WAS BORN INTO A MILITARY FAMILY. HIS FATHER ED CONLEY WAS REGULAR ARMY A 20 YEAR MAN WHEN HE RETIRED. HE HAD SERVED AT FT. BLISS, TEXAS AND WAS IN 1ST CAV. THIS MAY EXPLAIN HOW "PAT" CAME BY HIS NAME PATTON, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS KNOWN AS PAT, NEVER JAMES OR JIM. IN THE 1960S HE JOINED THE ARMY AND WAS STATIONED NEAR ABILENE, TEXAS., HE WAS ASSIGNED TO A SILO MISSLE BASE NEAR ABILENE, TEXAS. HOWEVER IN THE LATE 60S HE VOLUNTEERED FOR DUTY IN VIETNAM. HE WAS SENT TO FT, CAMBELL, KENTUCKY FOR TRAINING IN HELICOPTER MAINTENANCE. HE WENT TO VIETNAM AROUND 1969 AND SERVED AS A SIDE GUNNER AND MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR , HE SIGNED UP FOR A 2ND TOUR OF DUTY, COMING STATE SIDE AROUND 1973. HE RETURNED TO TEXAS, GOT MARRIED AND HAD TWO SONS. TO START OFF A SAD LIFE, BOTH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN BECAME DRUG ADDICTS.
NOTHING IS KNOWN OF THEIR CONDITION OR WHERE THEY ARE. AS OF NOW(2006). PAT MARRIED AGAIN AND WAS LIVING IN NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS DRIVING TRUCKS FOR A LIVING. HE DISCOVERED HE HAD THROAT CANCER ABOUT 2 YEARS BEFORE HE DIED HE UNDERWENT SURGERY, RADIATION AND CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENTS, BUT TO NO AVAIL, DYING IN NOVEMBER, 1997. THE FAMOUS AGENT ORANGE WAS FOUND IN HIS TUMOR CELLS. A FEW MONTHS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH HE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOR. PAT IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER MOTHER, WIFE,OLDER BROTHER AND TWO SONS.PAT'S FATHER WAS EDWARD JOHN CONLEY(IN FIND A GRAVE) MOTHER IS FARRIS KINSER CONLEY.
THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL IN WASHINGTON, D. C. EFFECTIVELY HELPED SHAPE A REEXAMINATION OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN. IT SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM THE NEGATIVE STEROTYPES OF THE VETERAN THAT EVOLVED DURING THE WAR AND IN IT'S IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH AND ALLOWED PEOPLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LOSS OF MORE THAN 55,000 AMERICANS AND THE SACRIFICE OF THE OTHER TWO MILLION WHO SERVED. Pat received TWO medals --THE Republic of Vietnam Service Medal and the Purple Heart. 2 YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH HE MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE, DIANNA DARLENE TRANEY. IT WAS ALSO HER SECOND MARRIAGE AND SHE HAD CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. SO PAT BECAME A STEPFATHER. IN FACT PAT WAS AT ONE OF THE STEP DAUGHTERS HOME THE DAY HE DIED WHILE UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT PAT TO HAVE A SPECIAL DIET BECAUSE OF HIS THROAT. HIS WIFE, DIANNA MADE UP THE SPECIAL LIQUID DIET. , WHICH HAD TO BE COOLED. SHE TOOK GREAT PAINS TO BE SURE THE DIET WAS AVAILABLE AND AT THE CORRECT TEMPERATURE. SHE TRULY LOVED PAT AND TOOK GREAT CARE OF HIM.
NOTHING IS KNOWN OF THEIR CONDITION OR WHERE THEY ARE. AS OF NOW(2006). PAT MARRIED AGAIN AND WAS LIVING IN NEW BRAUNFELS, TEXAS DRIVING TRUCKS FOR A LIVING. HE DISCOVERED HE HAD THROAT CANCER ABOUT 2 YEARS BEFORE HE DIED HE UNDERWENT SURGERY, RADIATION AND CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENTS, BUT TO NO AVAIL, DYING IN NOVEMBER, 1997. THE FAMOUS AGENT ORANGE WAS FOUND IN HIS TUMOR CELLS. A FEW MONTHS PRIOR TO HIS DEATH HE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS HIS SAVIOR. PAT IS SURVIVED BY HIS FATHER MOTHER, WIFE,OLDER BROTHER AND TWO SONS.PAT'S FATHER WAS EDWARD JOHN CONLEY(IN FIND A GRAVE) MOTHER IS FARRIS KINSER CONLEY.
THE VIETNAM MEMORIAL WALL IN WASHINGTON, D. C. EFFECTIVELY HELPED SHAPE A REEXAMINATION OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE VIETNAM VETERAN. IT SHIFTED THE FOCUS FROM THE NEGATIVE STEROTYPES OF THE VETERAN THAT EVOLVED DURING THE WAR AND IN IT'S IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH AND ALLOWED PEOPLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE LOSS OF MORE THAN 55,000 AMERICANS AND THE SACRIFICE OF THE OTHER TWO MILLION WHO SERVED. Pat received TWO medals --THE Republic of Vietnam Service Medal and the Purple Heart. 2 YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH HE MARRIED HIS SECOND WIFE, DIANNA DARLENE TRANEY. IT WAS ALSO HER SECOND MARRIAGE AND SHE HAD CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. SO PAT BECAME A STEPFATHER. IN FACT PAT WAS AT ONE OF THE STEP DAUGHTERS HOME THE DAY HE DIED WHILE UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT PAT TO HAVE A SPECIAL DIET BECAUSE OF HIS THROAT. HIS WIFE, DIANNA MADE UP THE SPECIAL LIQUID DIET. , WHICH HAD TO BE COOLED. SHE TOOK GREAT PAINS TO BE SURE THE DIET WAS AVAILABLE AND AT THE CORRECT TEMPERATURE. SHE TRULY LOVED PAT AND TOOK GREAT CARE OF HIM.
