Budd
Much has been said and written since you left us my friend.
Many people who had never met you are missing you.
Those who have met you are among the privileged.
So, where do we go from here?
That is a two part question.
What do we do without your presence in our lives?
And "Hey Budd, where is it we go after we leave the earth?"
You can surely send us a message of some sort and let us know.
Marines improvise, adapt and overcome.
That being the case, we will be watching for a sign from above.
Below are some of the things being said about you.
I know you never liked drawing attention to yourself but.......
Too bad, you don't have much to say about it now.
MSgt.. Lloyd Buddenhagen
Posted By: Jim Stockton <appleeaterwo@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 7:41 a.m.
To his many friends on the web, it is with deep regret and sorrow that I have to report that MSgt Buddenhagen (MSGT BUDD) passed quietly in his sleep early this morning. The body will be ready for viewing either later on today or tomorrow. He will be at the J. Allen Couch Funeral home in Douglasville. He will be sorely miss, at least by this one Marine.
Salute and Semper Fidelis, MSGT BUDD
Jim
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May he rest now....in peace. Semper Fi! *NM*
Posted By: Big Al <largeone@ipa.net>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 9:08 a.m.
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Re: DAM 1 less stop on my summer trip this year
Posted By: Bulldog <Nihil@onlinemac.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 1:15 p.m.
Was going to go by and say hello. SH$T! Now I'll really miss him. When I go I'll have to report to hell. That's ok bout time we kicked Saten ass any way...
Semper Fi MSgt. BuDD.
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Rest In Peace, MSGT Budd. This news
Posted By: O'B <obpfdlad1@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 9:11 a.m.
does not come as a shock, but it is still regrettable. All of us who knew him, will mourn his passing. His pain and suffering is over and for that, there is thankfulness. Semper Fi, MSGT BUDD!
Thank you, Jim.
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Re:Bye BuDD, we will meet again.
Posted By: Laamie <DickOassHill724@webtv.net>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 9:27 a.m.
Met Top at CPX 1, we had a great time! Met Top again at CPX 2, we had a great time! We will meet again & have a GREAT time, forever.
Good memories I have, I would like to keep it that way.
Semper Fidelis BuDD,
Top once said to me "That's with two capitol D's"
Sgt. Richard E. Oass
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Budd with two D's.
Posted By: Darby <usmcwmljob@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 10:40 a.m.
That is what I called him. Darby with one D is what he called me. All through our late night conversations his loyalty to the Corps and to his fellow Marines was prevalent. He worried when there was strife on the board, when Marines were having a hard time, when things at the Legion weren't done thus and so. He cared more than your average everyday guy because he was more than that. I will miss you Budd with two D's.
Semper Fidelis with love,
Darby
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Farewell TOP..we hardly knew ye *PIC*
Posted By: Choppergunner <PHayes209@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 10:40 a.m.
never shed a tear in the Nam,
now, they're flowing like the ocean
behind my house.
Ya got a good'n comin Chesty!
Semper Fidelis Lloyd Buddenhagen
HAND SALUTE
Patrick Hayes
*I"m so sorry Colleen*
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TO THIS MARINE !!!!!!
Posted By: TOS/SKIP <skip@ccia.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 10:58 a.m.
I AM VERY THANKFUL THAT I HAD THE HONOR TO MEET THIS MARINE AND HIS LOVELY WIFE AT THE REUNION AT MY HOME......MAY "BUDD" REST IN PEACE AND MY VERY BEST TO HIS FAMILY.
SEMPER FI
TOS/Skip
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There are no words to express
Posted By: Super Fod,Diamond Mair,Dawn <leverett_michael@hotmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 4:49 p.m.
our feelings at this time. He will be missed.
Semper Fi
Ssuper Fod
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Another Marine Reporting Sir
Posted By: Dave D'Arche <Ddarche802@cs.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 5:03 p.m.
He worked so hard getting together all the information he could find about those who died and whose names were on the wall. He did this in their memory. Resquiescat in Pace, friend. Finally some peace after your long battle. Go with God.
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May God bless and be with his family and friends.. *NM*
Posted By: Chaz3 <chazs3@yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 5:46 p.m.
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Re: MSgt.. Lloyd Buddenhagen
Posted By: GyBill <gybill@houston.rr.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 6:23 p.m.
As I know the Top is in a better place, My heart and prayers go out to his loved ones. A candle is lit for you Top.
Semper Fidelis,
Bill Conroy, GySgt,ret
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Another damn fine Marine reporting - Chesty and ..
Posted By: Stimer <stimer@erols.com>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 8:51 p.m.
and Pappy are there to greet him.
He will be missed by all those he left behind.
SEMPER FIDELIS
Stimer
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Been unable to post today..
Posted By: Gruntin <gruntin@earthlink.net>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 9:25 p.m.
I hate to see you go Top. You were a good friend to me and I hope I was to you. You were a Marine's Marine, brother and you will be sorely missed by all that have known you.
Colleen, you have my number if you need anything. If you do, please do not hesitate.
Semper Fidelis,
Jeff
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Another friend has a seat on high to watch over us. Semper Fidelis *NM*
Posted By: Radar <rbee3315@netzero.net>
Date: Sunday, 25 February 2001, at 9:54 p.m.
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May he find the peace he so richly deserves and
Posted By: 1SG <prkeehn@mtcnet.net>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 7:00 a.m.
Colleen I hope you find comfort in that he has been released from his pain.
God bless you both!
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Re: MSgt.. Lloyd Buddenhagen
Posted By: Dittychaser <jimb@health.state.ok.us>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 10:16 a.m.
My prayers and deepest condolences to Colleen, and all who will miss this fine man and Marine.
RIP, Budd ... you're in good company!
Semper Fidelis,
Jim
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RIP and Semper fi. *NM*
Posted By: chach <chach@capital.net>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 10:34 a.m.
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Re: MSgt.. Lloyd Buddenhagen
Posted By: Don Marshall <lima36@frontiernet.net>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 11:28 a.m.
So sorry to hear this, Top Budd,
what a hell of a guy. I was lucky
to have met him, and to have shared
a few warm ones with him. He will be missed!
Semper Fi
Don
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God speed MSgt.. Lloyd Buddenhagen.
Posted By: Will <waitken585@aol.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 1:05 p.m.
Hope there is a nice billet waiting for you.
Semper Fidelis
Will
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May he rest in peace and God grant comfort to his wife and family *NM*
Posted By: Retired Mustang <ccameron@state.pa.us>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 6:56 a.m.
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May he rest in peace.
Posted By: Mike Shepherd <mashephe@cc.ysu.edu>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 7:31 a.m.
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Posted By: AWACS <enair@stanford.edu>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 10:41 a.m.
In Response To: Memorial Album - - M/Sgt Budd *PIC* (Darby)
I am surprised and very sorry to learn of MSgt. Budd's passing. Although I had never met him, I know that he had touched the lives of those who had met him. May his friends and family find comfort in knowing that he had an indelible impact on those that he had known both in person as well as on the board.
Taps, Hand salute, and Semper Fi
Erik V Nair
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My condolences to the family.
Posted By: H. T. Cook <oldcolonel@home.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 6:58 p.m.
Never was good at this type of thing. My wife says I would cry at a Wal Mart opening. We appreciate Budd's service and know what he has been through in life. Takes a rare man to be a Marine.
SF
Tom
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Top Budd. . .
Posted By: Duffy <duffy@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 12:28 p.m.
. . .I first began receiving email from Top Budd in 1999, during the serial posting (i.e., one chapter/day) of WWII Marine Dick Bailey's memoir on TheFew.com. Top said he eagerly awaited each day's posting, to which I replied by describing what a pleasure it was for me to work with Dick, even though I could hardly keep pace with his prodigious daily output Dick Bailey was 78 at the time, yet he was running me ragged.
Top Budd added that he knew a WWII Marine in his town who had tales aplenty of his own war experiences. Top said he'd see about getting that Marine to share his memoirs.
That WWII Marine turned out to be Jim Stockton ("AppleEater"), and later we posted Jim's memoir. Actually, I didn't have to do much with either Dick or Jim's output, just tweak, layout pages, find pix. Jim's text got to me after it had been gone over by Top Budd & Darby, further lessening my need to do much.
In our exchange of emails, I'd include Top Budd among those senior Marines with whom I much enjoyed working, to which he'd reply by downplaying his own Marine career while concurrently praising the service-to-nation of Marines who'd gone before us, such as:
Dick Bailey
http://dickbailey.homestead.com/Index.html
Jim Stockton
http://jamesstockton.homestead.com/Index.html
Robert Cook
http://rl_cook.homestead.com/Index.html
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans."
Ronald Reagan (b. 1911), U.S. Republican politician, president.
New York Times (15 Jan. 1981).
Fair Wind from Georgia. . .
Posted By: Duffy <duffy@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 12:52 p.m.
. . .Sundays at 1500 I run the ridge on which we live. As a warm-up I speed-walk 1 mile up from our digs to top (i.e., end of street). A hundred meters from the top I start jogging, U-turn at top, jog down 100 meters (use manhole cover as turnaround marker) then U-turn again & run to top again. Stated in Dec. with 10 reps of the 100 meters up/100 meters down, then bumped it up to 15 reps in Jan. When that's finished I jog down the 1 mile to our digs, which is tricky as the steep incline requires that most of one's energy is used for breaking inertia's force rather than accelerating. An hour of such gets me sweating as much as two hours of singles tennis.
But yesterday on which I learned of Top Budd's death was different. Our ridge is breezy on most days or not much wind on really hot days. Breeze is always a headwind, coming at me as I struggle uphill from Northeast (straight in my face) or East (at right side of sweaty mug). Yesterday was odd because the wind, which I usually run into, making those 100-meter uphill reps nasty, was from due South (at my back). It was a muggy, overly tropical wind, heralding Spring's arrival, I suppose.
It made the uphill portion noticeably easier, plus running downhill into a wind is child's play. I know from prior years of running that when wind is at your back you often don't realize it as it makes no sound 'cause it comes from behind ears' satellite dishes. However, soon as you make a U-turn into the headwind you realize that you've been aided by an Unseen Ally.
Even though I'm atheist, I attributed yesterday's odd wind-from-South as assistance from Top Budd. Please don't ask me to explain my reading of such. As a response to Top's Fair Wind from Georgia, I bumped up the day's U-turn reps to 20. And, while soaking Zen-like in the ritual Sunday-night hotsy bath, I tipped my bottle of freezer-chilled Asahi beer to Top's name & honor.
Semper Fidelis, Top Budd. (with two D's)
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Good story Frank. Kind of makes you
Posted By: MSgt H <hustonje@hotmail.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 2:43 p.m.
wonder if there is in fact a "Supreme Being", regardless of how he/she may be called, calling the shots in this great game called life.
One would hope that after MSgt Budd's watch of guarding Heaven's streets he will be partaking of some cold libation in a heavenly Tun Tavern.
Semper Fidelis, Master Sergeant of Marines, Top Budd
MSgt H
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What lies beyond death. . .
Posted By: Duffy <duffy@hawaii.rr.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 3:20 p.m.
. . .(if anything) is anyone's guess. In that regard, your guess and mine are no-less-valid than are the Pope's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, the Dali Lama's, that of Judaism's chief rabbi, or even Big Al's.
For us still living, it remains a Dadburned Mystery. Even if there is a post-death "existence," it may just be some sort of Camp Naha-style, horizon-to-horizon Transit Barracks, where no one seems to be in-charge and billions of troops mill about between nightly sorties out into Kin Village. Guys who ain't got liberty passes can purchase such from wily office pogues like E.T., who profited from the biological angst of others.
Top Budd knows what lies beyond this Life, but so far he ain't revealed much although I surely did appreciate the uphill breeze he provided yesterday, and do hope he'll continue such assistance
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BuDD touched us all.....
Posted By: Choppergunner <PHayes209@aol.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 3:24 p.m.
My story is when he and Colleen called me on Christmas Eve a couple years ago because I was feeling down.
When I met Colleen and BuDD at P.I. I told of how much his caring to call helped me out of my funk. He clasped me around the shoulders and pulled me into him with a huge hug. "We're brothers", he said.
Never forget you BuDD and Colleen
SF
Chopz
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Re: Top Budd. . .
Posted By: Gunny Jay
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 3:16 p.m.
I had dinner last year with MSgt Budd and Jim Stockton when I was in the area.He wouldn't let me pay. Later,at the Legion Hall, after Jim and I had a good run at Trivial Pursuit at which Budd was the "house man", so to speak, I did manage to spring for some beers. I'm sorry to see him go.And, Duffy, I, too, am glad to be around these "senior Marines". Semper Fi, Gunny Jay
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Top Budd. . . was in high cotton that night....
Posted By: Ed Butsch <butsch@home.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 8:10 p.m.
... an e-mail outta the blue last summer:
Subject:
Gy Jay Lindsay
Date:
Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:04:02 EDT
From:
MSgtBudd@aol.com
To:
butsch@home.com
Ed: Spent portions of the last two days with Jay. Like any Marine I have had
the pleasure to meet he is a joy to be around. I was with him and Jim
(Stockton) this PM and sat there in awe just listening to them swap WW2
stories and others during their careers.
He finally asked me when I was in and what kind of stories I had to relate.
Anything I could have contributed would have been mute so I just encouraged
them to keep talking. The only thing I should have had was a tape recorder
to get all this down on tape.
Any how he mentioned that you and he live close together and see or
communicate with each other frequently. Just thought I would let you know
that he is doing well in Atlanta and is leaving Saturday and will be back in
your neighborhood soon.
SEMPER FI
Budd
SF all ol' farts
Ed
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This Bud's for you Budd......
Posted By: Darby <usmcwmljob@aol.com>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2001, at 7:56 p.m.
He kept a good secret. When asked, he would say "What are you talking about? I don't know anything about that." So you knew it was safely in the vault.
We saw the Y2K New Year in together on line, because Colleen had long since gone to bed. We left our computers on like brave Marines, betting that nothing would happen and it didn't.
He and Jim showed me the Atlanta Cyclorama while I was in Georgia. He waited patiently while the two of us hobbled around on our canes. (Me, more than Jim).
He helped me with a pest one night, pulled rank on him and scared him right off line. Once, when he sensed I was down in the dumps, he emailed my son. He made a phone call for me that I couldn't make. He offered the hand of friendship and went the extra mile.
We're going to miss you Budd.
DLT
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On two quick trips through Jawgia ...
Posted By: Dittychaser <jimb@health.state.ok.us>
Date: Tuesday, 27 February 2001, at 11:35 a.m.
... I spoke with Budd & Colleen by telephone. To my great loss, we never hooked up any closer than that. Those brief conversations reinforced the remarks many have made: a Marine & his lady, always extending the hand of family & friendship.
We'll all miss Budd, but none as Colleen will. And a promise: next time through the Peach State, I'll find a way to drop in on both Colleen and Jim.
Semper Fidelis,
DC
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Well, my friend, that about does it. I would like to have written your obituary. They never really say it all. We're going to miss you Budd with two D's but we'll carry on as you would want us to.
HAND SALUTE
SEMPER FIDELIS
M/Sgt Budd's Eulogy written and delivered by Jim Stockton on March 5, 2001
BUDD BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE.
The word Marine means different things to different people. To a friend or to another Marine, he is the first to offer his assistance. Budd came to the assistance of many of us over the years. He helped to get me out of my doldrums after my wife passed on. Many of you can give similar stories.
BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE
A Marine --- to an enemy of this country -- is implacable. He will do what has to be done to defend his nation. Budd did this for twenty years. This was back during the time when service was looked upon by most people as an act of idiocy.
BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE
People have accused us of being "brainwashed".. Perhaps ... But a Marine is something special. He can do anything he is asked to do. From the first day of boot camp until the day he retires, a Marine is ready to drop everything and go off to war.
BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE
You cannot point to any one thing and say ... "This is what makes a Marine Special."
You would have to search the minds of every Marine from Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Korea, Vietnam and on to Grenada and Kuwait and Iraq and still you would not know what it is that they possess that makes them unique.
BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE
The marines have taken the motto of the Three Musketeers "all for one and one for all" and taken it to the limit.
I don't really think that this is brainwashing at all. I don't believe you could fool 500,000 of us.
BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE
All the brainwashing aside, there is something that held us together when the chips were down. It was always "Semper Fidelis" ... "Always Faithful."
A Marine is faithful to his God, his Country, his Corps and his friends.
BUDDENHAGEN WAS A MARINE.
Addendum June 2001
The Way We Were - - June 9th
Posted By: Darby
Date: Saturday, 9 June 2001, at 12:12 p.m.
One year and so much has happened. Last year at this time many of us were at Parris Island for a gathering of Marines. Who knew it would be the last time we would see our brother Budd? One day at a time - - - that is all we have.
Semper Fidelis
Amen, Darby. Hardly seems possible that a year has passed. *NM*
O'B -- Saturday, 9 June 2001, at 12:51 p.m.
Some of us still have his T-shirts
Posted By: Choppergunner <PHayes209@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 10 June 2001, at 10:07 a.m.
In Response To: The Way We Were - - June 9th (Darby)
I remember while in his room and grabbing a few more shirts to give away to my buds in SanDiego at the Popasmoke Reunion, just two months after our day at Parris Island
......a day which will live forever in my mind as the pinnacle of my sucess as a United States Marine.
..damn proud that day
...very sorry we lost BuDD
The Ups and Downs of life..
..I'll never forget the phone calls made to me nights around Christmas '99 to cheer me up; to make what seemed the most bleakest day and turn it around and make me laugh...
Thank you for that MasterSgt BuDD
...Colleen too!
If there is a god...
I'm sure Budd will talk his way into heaven with that silver tongue devil in him!
Sempers BuDD...you touched many of us BuDD.
Who knew it would be your last...but, we made it a good one...fur sure!
Keep the Faith Brothers and Sister
All we have is each other, day to day.
Adios mi amigo BuDD
Semper Fidelis,
Choppergunner
(say hello to my Dad if you see him)
amen
.......Got me a Duffy-kind of feeling today
Posted By: Choppergunner <PHayes209@aol.com>
Date: Sunday, 10 June 2001, at 11:39 p.m.
After MSGT BuDD died, Frank wrote of a seemingly helpful breeze which lent him help to reach his uphill run.
I enjoyed the write and took what Duffy felt as 'what he believes,' and left it at that. a great tribute to BuDD.
One year ago today is the last day I saw BuDD.
Today, the owners of my beachhouse suddenly show up with an offer of year round residency.
A steal for what they're offering me in return for the upkeep of their property during this past winter's bad storms. Good people who know I'm here and it relieves them of the stress of the house catching fire. I know the electrical system here, and rewired the water heaters from straight to parallel circuits, eleminating the need to light both burners for one to run.
One told me that saved them money on oil.
Later, sitting out on the beach to calm down from getting so excited, I was looking out over the horizon of the ocean, and the sky was a brilliant radient red sky, refracted off our atmosphere as the sun set in the opposite direction.
Suddenly, BuDD came to mind in such a way that I felt he was here with me.... An eerie feeling, but an enlightenment to some spirituality present in our world...
so....Just for the helleva'it I yelled ou a 'Thanks TOP' to the fishes, and maybe beyond to where BuDD's sitting LHAO.
.... ironic, as I'm not religious at all, the thought of him being here today in my mind just may have been what Duffy felt; that lending hand to his six may have had something to do with my good fortune today.
I felt you TOP
you never left us, did you..
You're where the sky meets the earth my brother
Semper Fidelis
Choppergunner
one lucky dog'gunna
Been there many times....
Posted By: SparrowHawking <sparrowhawk@usa.com>
Date: Monday, 11 June 2001, at 12:05 a.m.
In Response To: .......Got me a Duffy-kind of feeling today (Choppergunner)
With the early morning breeze
with the evening wind
with the midnight stars
with the memories of days long gone
Been there bro and I share those moments with you...
A Poem for the night written for Choppergunner
Posted By: SparrowHawk <sparrowhawk@usa.com>
Date: Monday, 11 June 2001, at 12:46 a.m.
In Response To: .......Got me a Duffy-kind of feeling today (Choppergunner)
In honor of those we loved in war
Did Mary know what the stars above foretold?
What pain and agony
what was grace doing in the midst of sin?
I remember the voice I often heard in the early morning breeze
Before the sun would rise when the darkness of the night sky flew by
When the sounds of men stirred to awake in pain
To meet their fate filled with dark clouds and rain
What happened to the sun and when did death begin to rein?
When did love merged into eternity?
What happened to the sun?
What happened the day that laughter died
The day that bullets took away our pride
The night hunger became another shadow in the night
dwelling silently at our side
What happened to yesterday?
Why is it that pain and rain and dark clouds now mean so much
In the silence of the night?
Why are dark shadows ever at my side?
What happened to the rain?
To its cleansing grace at the sight of pain
So long tomorrow
So long we loved
How often have I cried
Howe often have we died?
Tomorrow the sun will rise and the moon will sing her song
But those memories of love long gone will remain embedded in my soul for evermore
Tomorrows pain can never hold
The scars of terror and of war
In honor of Chopper gunner
SF, bro
Cook
May I have
Posted By: Choppergunner <PHayes209@aol.com>
Date: Monday, 11 June 2001, at 12:27 p.m.
In Response To: A Poem for the night written for choppergunner (SparrowHawk)
both Duffy's and Cook's permission to reprint your poem and reflections of BuDD?
He was a special man, and he brought emotions out of me so deeply embedded I thought they'd never come out of hiding.
Now, I'm not in control of myself; my feelings, emotions cause me to choke up...tear up (how embarrassing I thought, years ago).
Tears are signs of the water missing from our young lives back when all we had was each other.
I am honored by both of you taking time out to reflect on some old man's memories, and then honor me.
I am the HUMBLED MARINE NOW...
Thank you guys...you'll never know how much this means to me, what ya'll said.
amen
Semper Fi,
Patrick Hayes, USMC.
*Best medal to aircombatcrewmen was a mud-faced Grunts smile*
believe it....
The poem is yours.....
Posted By: SparrowHawk <sparrowhawk@usa.com>
Date: Monday, 11 June 2001, at 1:06 p.m.
In Response To: May I have (Choppergunner)
I wrote it for you and your thoughts about your friend
It is yours.....
SF
Cook
Thanks....It will be framed and on my wall...along with Duffy's
Posted By: Choppergunner <PHayes209@aol.com>
Date: Monday, 11 June 2001, at 1:16 p.m.
In Response To: The poem is yours..... (SparrowHawk)
close encounter with the US MARINE BuDD..who seems to be lurking about giving all a hand.
If so, Ditty....you're up!
Good Luck
..and, thanks again Sparrowhawk/
my mission is finished here/
The Dog sleeps tonight...
YankeeNovember3...clear
keep your feet dry bro's
Re: Fair wind from Georgia. . .
Posted By: Jim Stockton <appleeatertwoj@aol.com>
Date: Monday, 11 June 2001, at 11:51 p.m.
In Response To: Fair wind from Georgia. . . (Duffy)
Brings memories of a very good friend.
Semper Fidelis, Top BuDD (With ttwo d's)
Jim
Click on the EGA to go to Top Budd's Memorial Album
