Suzanne was born in Southern Illinois. She lived there until taking a teaching job in St. Louis where she met Bill in 1970.The Rice family made 12 moves during Bill’s military career; several of them were overseas. They have three children – two daughters and a son (USMA 2010). She has always been a proud Field Artillery wife and now, a Field Artillery Mom.
- Christmas in Korea – 1973How to celebrate Christmas in a non-Christian country? Because I had showed up in South Korea unauthorized with only a suitcase of clothes https://thedaysforward.com/second-infantry-division-education-program-1973/, there were few […]
- Space-A Travel – 2000Our daughter, Lesley, was a Fulbright Scholar in Mainz, Germany in 2000. Our daughter, Meredith, still a student at the University of Dallas (UD), had just completed […]
- What West Point Means To Me – Suzanne RiceI didn’t know Bill when he was a cadet. My first glimpse of West Point might have been watching the old television program,” The West Point Story” […]
- Keeping In Touch With A Soldier 1970-2015It all started with a blind date in 1970 arranged by Bill’s childhood friend who had just graduated from the USAF Academy – well, not exactly. It […]
- The Vacuum Cleaner – 1974My expensive, modern vacuum cleaner quit working a short time before guests were arriving to celebrate Christmas, 2016. What to do now – no time for repairs; […]
- Brush With History 1981I met my sister bright and early at 8 a.m. at Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport for our first ever Sister’s Week in Georgia. She left Southern Illinois, […]
- Halloween Surprises – 1983Getting orders to Germany in 1982 was not what we wanted, but like all dutiful Army families, we did as ordered. We settled in a very small […]
- The Challenger Remembered – 1986By Suzanne Rice wife of COL Bill Rice, 1986, Kitzingen, Germany The Challenger Remembered – 1986 By 1986, we had lived in a tiny German town near Kitzingen, […]
- Living in Ui Jong Bu 1973By Suzanne Rice, Wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-15 Field Artillery, Camp Stanley, Korea Bill was on an unaccompanied assignment in Korea in the 1-15 Field Artillery […]
- Life in Germany 1972By Suzanne Rice wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-36 Field Artillery, Augsburg, West Germany In late August, Bill and I returned to Germany for our honeymoon following our […]
- A Refrigerator in Korea 1973By Suzanne Rice, wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-15 Field Artillery, Camp Stanley, Korea After we moved into a larger place in Ui Jong Bu, Bill decided […]
- Panic – 1973 WarBy Suzanne Rice, wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-15 Field Artillery, Camp Stanley, Korea Along with only two other American wives, I was living in Ui Jong Bu, […]
- Best Battery Competition 1973-74By Suzanne Rice, wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-15 Field Artillery, Camp Stanley, Korea Best Battery Competition – 1973Twice each year the Second Infantry Division Artillery held the […]
- Unauthorized – 1973By Suzanne Rice, St. Louis High School Coordinator, wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-15 Field Artillery, Camp Stanley, Korea Leaving Germany just as the peace treaty ending […]
- Change of Command on Freedom’s Frontier, Korea 1974By Suzanne Rice, wife of COL Bill Rice, 1-15 Field Artillery, Camp Stanley, Korea Most people think that a big bureaucracy like the U.S. Army, one of the […]