I did not serve in our armed forces, but many of my kin folks did including my father (Army), Uncle (USMC) and both brothers-in-law, one who drove F4s for the USMC and the other who flew F-16s for the Air Force.
Another who served our country was my great, great, great, great, great uncle, Lieutenant William S Bush of the Marine Corps. He was one of two Marine Lieutenants aboard Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution, and he died heroically in battle for our country.
http://www.mca-marines.org/leatherneck/article/first-united-states-marine-officer-killed-combat-%E2%80%9Cshall-i-board-her-sir%E2%80%9DHis death in combat was the first time a United States Marine Corps officer had suffered such a fate. Gone but not forgotten, the U.S. Navy later named two destroyers for William Bush. The first was a World War I-era destroyer, Number 166. The second, DD-529, had a distinguished fighting career in the Pacific during WW II, but similar to the ship’s namesake, was fated for death in combat in 1945 when she was repeatedly struck by kamikaze aircraft and sank off the island of Okinawa.
A section of the chapel at Annapolis has a dedication to Lt. Bush who died serving his young country exactly 200 years ago.