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Suzanne Rice

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.

  • Duty, Honor, Country – Coach K – 1975-2021
         By Pete Grimm As a class we were all proud to see Mike tapped to coach Army and, for what seems now only a moment, sorry […]
  • September 11 in Georgia – 2001
         Like every American who was alive on September 11, 2001, when the anniversary comes around each year, I remember the horrors of that day felt even […]
  • Reception Day
    R-Day – 1978
    Each summer at West Point, new cadets arrive on Reception Day (R-Day) starting their West Point experience. Perhaps a month or so before, a call goes out […]
  • Adventure With Clickaroo – 2014
    To commemorate the 200th story published by thedaysforward.com, we present the story of how it all began. It was in December 2013 that the idea of thedaysforward […]
  • Dinner with Friends – 1970’s
         Many American military posts might be considered remote to some who live in the large metropolitan areas of the U.S. Those who have been assigned to […]
  • It Was July 21! – 1969
    It Was July 21!  –  1969 America’s amazing feat of landing on the moon has been celebrated for over 50 years. For most of those years, I […]
  • God Bless the U.S.A. – 1987
         It was a pitch-black night – early morning, really, long before sunrise. 15,000 of the most patriotic, courageous soldiers in the US Army had marched to […]
  • Christmas in Korea – 1973
    How 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 – 2000
    Our 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 Rice
    I 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 1970-2015
    It 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 – 1974
    My 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; […]
  • Suzanne Rice, on the days
    Brush With History 1981
    I 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, […]
  • Rice The Days Forward
    Halloween Surprises – 1983
    Getting 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 – 1986
    By 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 1973
    By 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 1972
    By 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 1973
    By 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 War
    By 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 1973-74
    By 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 – 1973
    By 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 1974
    By 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 […]

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