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<em>Henry Allen “Hen” Phillips, Sr.</em> was born in Lebanon, PA, to Henry K. Phillips and Alice Light. Hen and his sister were raised among the Pennsylvania Dutch in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Growing up, Hen had two dreams. First, he wanted to attend and graduate from the U.S. Military Academy and have a military career. When Hen graduated from Lebanon High School in 1954, he was chosen as a First Alternate to West Point. He decided to attend Staunton Military Academy in Staunton, VA, and wait for a second chance, only to be chosen as a first alternate again. Finally, in 1956, while attending Lehigh University, he re­ceived a principal nomination and joined the Class of 1960.</p>
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His second dream was to marry the girl who waited for him for four years while he was at West Point. He realized that dream within hours after graduation when he and Mary (Mimi) Zerbe married. Ironically, he and Mimi were born within eight hours of each other on the same date in a snow storm on the doctor’s day off.</p>
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Hen joined the Infantry following gradu­ation and attended IOBC, Airborne and Ranger schools at Ft. Benning, GA, where Henry Allen Phillips, Jr., Hen and Mimi’s first son was born. The family of three moved to Ft. Campbell, KY, as Hen joined the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. Between field exercises, schools, the Cuban Missile Crisis and James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss, Hen and Mimi welcomed their second son, David Allen Phillips, in 1962.</p>
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In July 1963 Hen branch-transferred to Ordnance and was assigned to the Eighth Army in Korea to command a general sup­port company. This tour was followed by re­search and development at Frankford Arsenal and the birth of daughter Anne in 1965.</p>
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The night before the family’s move from the Frankford Arsenal, a fire broke out in the enlisted quarters. Hen ran to the area and realized that his sergeant, his wife and 14-year-old daughter, who babysat for the Phillips children, were inside the burning building. Hen got on the roof of the building, found all three, and brought them outside. Unfortunately, the sergeant’s wife and daugh­ter perished. Hen was awarded the Soldier’s Medal for his efforts.</p>
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Hen’s next assignment was test officer at the Arctic Test Center. His son, John Henry Phillips, was born in 1968 during this assign­ment. A tour in Vietnam followed as senior ordnance advisor, 5th Area Log Command, in southern II Corps. Hen was awarded a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, two Air Medals and a Commendation Medal. This tour con­vinced Hen that the United States presence would end as it had for the French in Bernard Fall’s <em>Street Without Joy.</em></p>
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Hen’s remaining service was in staff assign­ments at the Ordnance School 1969-1972; I ROTC Region, University of North Alabama; Military Advisory Group to Turkey; and a re­search and development job at the Army Tank Automotive Command. Hen retired at a lieu­tenant colonel in July 1980.</p>
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Post retirement, Hen joined Hughes Aircraft and worked on the TOW launcher and integrated sight unit for the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. In March 1981, Hen joined BMY in York, PA, and in 1987 he became the engineering manager of BMY’s Wheeled Vehicles Division in Marysville, OH.</p>
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Hen enjoyed baseball and continued to play it (and later softball) well into his years in the Army. He coached Little League and had teams go to the Championship tourna­ment in Williamsport. He also coached his sons’ teams and was active in their Boy Scout activities in Alabama. Two of them earned Eagle Scout rank.</p>
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Henry, Jr. (Hank) spent four years in the USAF, including a tour with SAC at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan and a tour in Balikeshir, Turkey. He graduated with honors from York College, PA, in marketing in May 1989. Hank worked at John Wright Foundry in York and then joined T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. in Owings Mills, MD, where he resides. He is an IRA specialist as well as a tax, funds and legal specialist.</p>
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David graduated in 1984 from the University of Alabama and worked at BMY in York as a project engineer for underground shelters while earning his master’s degree in engineering management at George Washington University. He is currently vice president of business development and ad­vanced systems with AAI, a Textron Systems company in Hunt Valley, MD. David mar­ried the former Diane Lloyd, a cosmetologist. They live in Red Lion, PA, with their daugh­ter Sydney, born in 2000.</p>
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Anne married Jeff Shaw in 1989. She graduated from Penn State-Harrisburg in 1991 with a degree in elementary education. Jeff and Anne presented Hen and Mimi with Andrew, their first grandchild in 1995, fol­lowed by Ashley in 1999. Sadly, Jeff passed away suddenly in 2002 at age 40. Anne and the children moved to lovely Brevard, NC, where they now reside.</p>
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John majored in electrical engineering at the Citadel. He graduated in May 1990 and has spent 19 years in the Army Reserve (twelve on active duty). He went to Airborne and Ranger schools after Basic Officer Signal Course and has had two tours to Iraq, one to Bosnia and one in Germany. He wed the for­mer Sherrie Stone, and they have two sons: Stone, born in 1997, and Ryan, born in 2000. Dr. Sherrie Phillips is a staff physical therapist at a Continuing Care Community near their home in Laurinburg, NC. John is currently on active duty with the 359th Brigade at Ft. Gordon, GA, and deployed to Afghanistan in early 2010.</p>
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Mimi was a hostess for Welcome Wagon International until it disbanded. In 1992, af­ter Hen’s death, she decided to sell the large York home and move to Hershey, PA—her birthplace. She is now active with The Federated Women’s Club of Hershey and the Horticultural Society. Mimi really misses her Army friends and experiences. It really was a wonderful journey.</p>
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<em>—Family and classmates</em></p>