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This #MemorialDayWeekend, @JohnKerry says he’s thinking about close friends from high school, college & the Navy lost in war, not to mention the 58,000+ from Vietnam and the fallen from Iraq, Afghanistan & elsewhere, as well as the funerals he attended for Mass. veterans....
2/ Specific friends he thinks about include:
2LT Dick Pershing, 25, KIA in Vietnam on Feb. 17, 1968, KIA from “wounds received while on a combat mission when his unit came under hostile small-arms and rocket attack while searching for remains of a missing member of his unit”
2LT Dick Pershing, 25, KIA in Vietnam on Feb. 17, 1968, KIA from “wounds received while on a combat mission when his unit came under hostile small-arms and rocket attack while searching for remains of a missing member of his unit”
3/ Lt. Donald G. Droz, KIA on 12 April 1969 when his craft came under enemy fire on the Rach Guong Keo Canal, South Vietnam.
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#MemorialDayWeekend
4/ 2LT Straughan Kelsey Jr, KIA June 3 1967, Quang Tin Province of Vietnam at the village of Ving Huy near the Mekong Delta.
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#MemorialDayWeekend
5/ 1LT Peter Wyeth Johnson was killed on February 13, 1968 “gallantly charging the fortified North Vietnamese bunkers,” per the order accompanying his posthumous Distinguished Service Cross. #MemorialDayWeekend
6/ Lieutenant (junior grade) Robert Leroy Crosby, died September 26, 1969 in Vietnam.
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#MemorialDayWeekend
7/ 1LT John C. White, KIA Nov 1 1968, his posthumous Silver Star citation says he was mortally wounded while removing one of the casualties from a hazardous area while under fire.
