CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER WILLIAM RUTH
KILLED ON 9/11 DURING ATTACK ON PENTAGON
SERVED AS MARINE HELICOPTER PILOT IN SOUTH VIETNAM.
SERVED AS A NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIER IN THE PERSIAN GULF.
TAUGHT SCHOOL IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD. FOR 23 YEARS.
WAS COMMANDER OF MT. AIRY VFW.
News paper article:
"William R. Ruth, 57, Army Chief Warrant Officer
A memorial service for William R. Ruth, an Army Chief Warrant Officer who died in the Pentagon terrorist attack, was held at 3 p.m. at the Calvary United Methodist Church, 305 S. Main St., Mount Airy. He was 57 and lived in Mount Airy.
He was a helicopter pilot in the Marines during the Vietnam War. He retrieved the wounded and the dead on combat missions. A member of the Army Reserve, he was called up to serve in the Persian Gulf War.
On the evening of Sept. 10, the night before the terrorist attack he led his first meeting as the newly installed commander of the Mount Airy Veterans of Foreign Wars. That night he awarded a Bronze Star to a post member.
An amateur astronomer and ham radio operator, he also fished on the Crowe River in Ontario, Canada, where he had a cottage.
Born in Knoxville, Tenn., he was a graduate of Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He had also studied at Ohio State University.
He taught social studies for nearly 30 years in the Montgomery County School system. He last taught at John T. Baker Middle School in Damascus. In 1997, he took the Army job at the Pentagon.
He is survived by a son, Sean Ruth of Mount Airy; his mother, Jane Ruth, his brother, David Ruth, and a sister, Martha Ruth, all of Alliance, Ohio. A son Chad Ruth, died in 1999.
KILLED ON 9/11 DURING ATTACK ON PENTAGON
SERVED AS MARINE HELICOPTER PILOT IN SOUTH VIETNAM.
SERVED AS A NATIONAL GUARD SOLDIER IN THE PERSIAN GULF.
TAUGHT SCHOOL IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD. FOR 23 YEARS.
WAS COMMANDER OF MT. AIRY VFW.
News paper article:
"William R. Ruth, 57, Army Chief Warrant Officer
A memorial service for William R. Ruth, an Army Chief Warrant Officer who died in the Pentagon terrorist attack, was held at 3 p.m. at the Calvary United Methodist Church, 305 S. Main St., Mount Airy. He was 57 and lived in Mount Airy.
He was a helicopter pilot in the Marines during the Vietnam War. He retrieved the wounded and the dead on combat missions. A member of the Army Reserve, he was called up to serve in the Persian Gulf War.
On the evening of Sept. 10, the night before the terrorist attack he led his first meeting as the newly installed commander of the Mount Airy Veterans of Foreign Wars. That night he awarded a Bronze Star to a post member.
An amateur astronomer and ham radio operator, he also fished on the Crowe River in Ontario, Canada, where he had a cottage.
Born in Knoxville, Tenn., he was a graduate of Bowling Green University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He had also studied at Ohio State University.
He taught social studies for nearly 30 years in the Montgomery County School system. He last taught at John T. Baker Middle School in Damascus. In 1997, he took the Army job at the Pentagon.
He is survived by a son, Sean Ruth of Mount Airy; his mother, Jane Ruth, his brother, David Ruth, and a sister, Martha Ruth, all of Alliance, Ohio. A son Chad Ruth, died in 1999.
William Ruth was my mom's second cousin. She remember playing with him at family function while she was growing up. My mom, for years, had gone to cousins lunch in Alliance and she would have lunch with Jane Ruth and other cousins. Although, I am not sure I ever met him, but it bring home the events of today. When we were in DC 2 years ago for Labor Day, we went to the Pentagon Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery and saw his name on it.
God Bless all who have fallen in the line of duty and the innocent live lost 6 years ago today.
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