Colonel Ronald Franklin Golinski

Inscribed

Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 2 RONALD F GOLINSKI COL USA Ret

National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

National September 11 Memorial South Pool · Panel S-75 Ronald F. Golinski

Colonel U.S. Army

What he earned

Also kept at

salute.nw ↗ Colonel · Enlisted Personnel Management Directorate, Army Reserve Personnel Command

1941 2001

Brooklyn, New York The PentagonSeptember 11, 2001

Lived in Columbia, Maryland. Worked at U.S. Army Civilian as Colonel, retired. Served with Enlisted Personnel Management Directorate, Army Reserve Personnel Command.

United States of America

His life

Colonel, United States Army, retired, after thirty-six years.

He was director of the enlisted personnel management directorate at the Army Reserve Personnel Command in St Louis, responsible for more than three hundred thousand enlisted soldiers of the Individual Ready Reserve. After retiring from the Army Reserve in 1996 he worked as a Department of the Army civilian in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.

His colleagues, military and civilian, agree his sense of humour could not be matched, and that anyone could depend on him to go the extra mile. Everyone knew about the golf: on Saturdays and Sundays between six in the morning and one you could find him on the course at Fort Meade.

He and his wife Irene had married twenty-three years before, and had celebrated their daughter's wedding nine days earlier.

Survived by

His wife Irene, his daughters Marcellia, Amanda, Sara, Christine, Dawn and Michelle, his stepchildren Paula and David, twelve grandchildren, his mother Marion, his brothers Leon and Christopher and his sisters Marylyn and Michelle.

The Pentagon

September 11, 2001

American Airlines flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37. A hundred and twenty-five people inside the building were killed, and fifty-nine aboard the aircraft.

They were military and civilian alike - officers, analysts, budget staff, contractors, a group of schoolchildren and their teachers travelling on a National Geographic trip. No police officer died here.

The nation afterwards set aside Arlington's own rules of eligibility and buried the civilian dead in national ground, together with the remains that could not be identified, in Section 64. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

Everyone taken by The Pentagon →

September 11, 2001

On a clear Tuesday morning, four airliners were taken. Two were flown into the towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the western face of the Pentagon, and one came down in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after the passengers and crew went forward at the cockpit door.

Two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven people were killed. Three hundred and forty-three were firefighters of the New York City Fire Department. Seventy-one were law enforcement officers. Eight were paramedics and emergency medical technicians. One hundred and twenty-five died at the Pentagon, military and civilian together. The rest - some two thousand four hundred of them - had gone to work, or boarded a plane, and belonged to no service at all.

None of them began that morning as heroes. A great many of them ended it as heroes: men and women who carried strangers down stairwells, who stayed with people who could not walk, who held a door, who went back up. Four men on a flight over Pennsylvania, who had thirty minutes of telephone calls and knew what had already happened, decided where their aircraft would come down.

At Arlington, the nation set aside its own rules of eligibility and buried the Pentagon's civilian dead in national ground. It had decided that on this day the distinction did not apply.

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