James Patrick Hussar – Major,United States Marine Corps

From a contemporary press report

 James Patrick Hussar, 37, a retired Marine Corps Major who was a Navy Department security specialist and a 1986 law enforcement graduate of the University of Maryland, died July 30 at Georgetown University Hospital after a stroke. He lived in Port Tobacco, Virginia.

Major Hussar, who was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1986 and became a counterintelligence officer. He served in two peacekeeping missions in the Balkans. After becoming a civilian Navy official in
Washington in October, he remained in the Marine Corps Reserve.

He was a member of St. Ignatius Catholic Church in Chapel Point, Maryland. His interests included history and running. He had completed 12 Marine Corps marathons.

Survivors include his wife, Robin Elizabeth Hussar, whom he married in 1988, and a daughter, Elizabeth Lauren Hussar, both of Port Tobacco; his parents, John Richard and Ann Marie Hussar of Lancaster; two brothers; and a sister. Another daughter,
Patricia Mary Hussar, died in 1990.

HUSSAR, JAMES PATRICK

• MAJ   US MARINE CORPS
• VETERAN SERVICE DATES: 04/30/1990 – 09/10/1999
• DATE OF BIRTH: 05/27/1963
• DATE OF DEATH: 07/30/2000
• DATE OF INTERMENT: 08/16/2000
• BURIED AT: SECTION 70  SITE 2092
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

HUSSAR, PATRICIA MARY

• DATE OF BIRTH: 08/01/1990
• DATE OF DEATH: 08/01/1990
• DATE OF INTERMENT: 08/01/1990
• BURIED AT: SECTION 70  SITE 2092
  ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
• DAUGHTER (MINOR CHILD) OF HUSSAR, JAMES PATRICK MAJ US MARINE CORPS

Michael Robert Patterson

Michael Robert Patterson was born in Arlington and is the son of a former officer of the US Army. So it was no wonder that sooner or later his interests drew him to American history and especially to American military history. Many of his articles can be found on renowned portals like the New York Times, Washingtonpost or Wikipedia.

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