02-03-2009, 05:35
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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Col. Galen Wayne "Mike" Radke(ret)
Vaya con Dios, Colonel
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Ret. Col.Galen Wayne "Mike" Radke, 80, died Friday, January 30, 2009 at the Mease Countryside Hospital in Palm Harbor, Florida. He was born in St. Joseph, Missouri on June 4, 1928, the son of Gahardt and Emile Mueller Radke. He graduated from Centeral High School and Northwest Missouri State College.
Mike was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army in 1953, and joined Special Forces in 1960 and has had a variety of assignments, retiring in 1986 having spent the last five years of military duty as Army Attaché to the Philippines.
He has been married for 36 years to Margaret (Marge) John of Clearwater, and is survived by a daughter, Valerie Ann Brown, of Seattle, WA; a son, Jack, and his wife, Carla, of Orlando, FL; and his three granddaughters: Janae, Mariah, and Selena. He is pre-deceased by a sister, Adelaine, and brother, Marvin, both of St. Joseph, MO.
Mike was a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Loyal Order of Moose, the Special Forces Association, and the Military Officers Army Association. He loved to travel with his wife in their RV, visiting family and friends throughout the country, and also had a passion for football.
Military honors are presently being arranged with Arlington National Cemetery later this year, and arrangements have been entrusted to Veterans Funeral Care, 15381 Roosevelt Blvd., Clearwater, FL 33760.
http://www.veteransfuneralcare.com/v...45§ionId=3
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Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
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02-03-2009, 07:09
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Area Commander
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In pace requiescat, Sir.
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02-03-2009, 07:12
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Rest In Peace Colonel!!
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02-03-2009, 07:44
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"SF Loggie"
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COL Radke had the schoolhouse when I went through SFOC. In addition to his other accomplishments, he was an outstanding educator.
RIP, Sir.
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02-03-2009, 08:01
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Guerrilla Chief
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Rest in Peace.... Sir
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Understand the problem; pull your weight. Appreciate. Be completely honest and trustworthy in all things. - Jeff Cooper
Practice honesty and integrity; rescue the man who has been wronged from the hands of his oppressor; do not exploit the stranger, the orphan, the widow; do no violence; shed no innocent blood in this place. Jer 22:3
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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02-03-2009, 09:39
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Good man, I knew him.
RIP, Colonel.
TR
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02-03-2009, 10:59
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Great Man to have served under. Rest in Peace Sir.
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02-03-2009, 11:04
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CCC CDR and a hell of a good soldier who truly did whatever it took to ensure his soldiers received all the support they needed. RIP in the GREAT A-SITE in the sky!
Richard's $.02
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02-03-2009, 11:50
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Rest in Peace, Sir.
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02-03-2009, 11:56
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RIP,Warrior........... 
GB TFS
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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02-03-2009, 19:08
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Rest in Peace, Colonel.
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02-03-2009, 21:00
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Rest in Peace sir....
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02-04-2009, 09:02
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Rest easy, Sir.
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02-04-2009, 09:09
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Guerrilla Chief
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Rest in Pease, Sir. Thank you for your great service.
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A tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny ~ Aesops Fables; The Lamb and the Wolf
Am fear nach gleidh na h-airm san t-sith, cha bhi iad aige 'n am a' chogaidh
"He that keeps not his arms in time of peace will have none in time of war" Old Gaelic
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. Thomas Paine
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02-04-2009, 11:37
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Vaya con Dios, Colonel
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RIP Colonel.
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