Myers to speak at Spring Hill veterans service
Spring Hill Memorial Funeral Home and the City of Spring Hill will host the 14th Annual Veterans Day Memorial Service at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8. Spring Hill Memorial Funeral Home is located at 5239 Main Street in Spring Hill.
The event celebrates patriotism and community, and includes music and special guest speakers. This year’s theme is “Remembering and Celebrating Veterans,” and the guest speaker is retired Lt. Col. Glenn Myers from the U.S. Air Force
Myers was born in 1941 in East McKeesport, Pa. He was commissioned a 2nd Lt. in the U.S. Air Force through the ROTC program at The Citadel in Charleston, S.C., on Jan. 19, 1965, and on active duty beginning April 19, 1965.
Myers next completed Undergraduate Pilot Training and was awarded his pilot wings at Moody AFB, Georgia, in May 1966, followed by Tactical Reconnaissance Training and RF-4C Phantom II Combat Crew Training, from May to September 1966.
His first assignment was as an RF-4C pilot and Pilot Systems Operator with the 22nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, from Oct. 1966 to June 1967, and then as an RF-4C pilot with the 16th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron at Tan Son Nhut AB, South Vietnam, from June 1967 until he was forced to eject over North Vietnam and was taken as a Prisoner of War on Aug. 9, 1967.
After spending over 2,000 days in captivity, Myers was released during Operation Homecoming on March 14, 1973.
He was briefly hospitalized at Patterson AFB to recover from his injuries, and then attended pilot requalification training and Pilot Instructor Training.
His next assignment was as an instructor pilot with the 97th Flying Training Squadron at Williams AFB in Arizona, from Sept. 1974 to April 1977.
Myers served as a C-141 pilot with the 20th Military Airlift Squadron at Charleston AFB, South Carolina, from January 1979 to July 1983. His final assignment was as Director of Operations for the U.S. Air Force-Civil Air Patrol Middle East Liaison Region at Andrews AFB, Maryland, from July 1983 until his retirement from the Air Force on Nov. 1, 1985.
His Silver Star Citation reads: On 31 August 1967: This officer distinguished himself by gallantry and intrepidity in action in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force while a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam. Ignoring international agreements on treatment of prisoners of war, the enemy resorted to mental and physical cruelties to obtain information, confessions and propaganda materials.
This American resisted their demands by calling upon his deepest inner strengths in a manner which reflected his devotion to duty and great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.
Photo of Lt. Col. Glenn Myers
