Bobby Wayne Butler was born on December 26, 1950 and died on December 22, 2020 after a hard-fought battle with lung cancer.
Wayne Butler spent his whole life taking care of the people he loved. After serving in Korea in the Army, he did brutally hard construction work for 20 years for Pressure Concrete in order to support the family he shared with his wife Debbie, whom he married May 6, 1978. Highly skilled and extremely smart, he rose in the company to become a supervisor on major construction projects across the country. But the job required weeks of travel at a time, and he gave it up to avoid being separated from his wife and two young daughters. He worked at Tee Jays for 10 years and Graphix Packaging for 11 before retiring in 2011.
died. he died in july 1967 in a country called vietnam, a distant memory now. he was representative of so many young money, african-american, hispanic, whites who never went to college, never went to law school. they went into the marine corps and they went into the army and they died in vietnam. sonny was the only child of friend of mine bubba and lena davis. and they missed him forever. his death changed their lives forever. and we ought to remember sonny davis and all of the other young men from places where so much working class young money went and died in vietnam. their names are on the wall, their names are not really on the minds of a lot of people in this country today but they were there, they died and they should be remembered, too. mike, thank you. and speaking of the military, the acting defense secretary