Eighteenth Annual IN MEMORY DAY OBSERVANCE VIE TNA M VE TER ANS MEMORIAL SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2016 10 : 0 0 A . M .
DEAR FRIENDS: On behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), I am pleased to welcome you to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial for our eighteenth annual In Memory Day ceremony. Today, in the shadow of The Wall, we honor the service and sacrifice of the men and women who served in the Vietnam War and have since died as a result of their service. The Vietnam War was unpopular at home, yet nearly three million Americans served during this time. They served for lots of reasons … a legal requirement to serve when drafted, a sense of duty when called upon by their country, or even so that others didn’t have to serve. Thankfully, most returned home. However, for many, coming home from Vietnam was just the beginning of a whole new fight. Many never fully recovered, either physically or emotionally, from their experiences. That is why the In Memory program exists — because only a fraction of the casualties actually died on the battlefields of Vietnam. Many more carried their wounds back and suffered long after the actual fighting ended. As these service members pass, it is our duty and our solemn promise to welcome them home to this place that our nation has set aside to remember our Vietnam veterans. They may not meet the criteria for addition to The Wall, but they certainly are worthy of joining their brothers and sisters in this place of honor and remembrance. For many of the family members here today, this ceremony is bittersweet. Your loss is still new. While that pain lingers, you are proud of your Vietnam veteran and happy to see them finally receive the recognition they deserve. I offer you this thought, which I hope will bring you some comfort: Our Vietnam veterans took upon themselves the commitment to never allow another generation of men and women go into harm’s way for their country without the respect and honor they deserve. That is part of their legacy, and the next time you hear someone say “thanks for your service” to someone in uniform, you can take comfort in knowing that thanks also is being extended to your loved one. More than 2,500 service members are already a part of the In Memory Honor Roll, and today we add 312. Together we’ll make sure that their sacrifices — and those of their families — will never be forgotten. For as long as this memorial stands, and as long as visitors come to this place to learn, your loved ones will be remembered. Sincerely,
Jim Knotts President and CEO Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
VIETNAM VETER ANS ME MO RIAL FUND
Eighteenth Annual IN MEMORY DAY OBSERVANCE VIE TNA M VE TER ANS MEMORIAL SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 2016 | 10 : 0 0 A . M . The names of all past honorees are read throughout the ceremony Welcome Remarks
Lee Allen COO, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Master of Ceremonies
Captain Denis Faherty, USN (Ret.) Former Deputy Director of the National Strategic War Gaming Center, National Defense University
Presentation of Colors
Armed Forces Color Guard Military District of Washington
Invocation
Capt. Brian Eastham Chaplain, Arlington National Cemetery
National Anthem Pledge of Allegiance
Sgt. Kurt Fox Wilson, USA Son of 2016 Honoree John B. Wilson
Retiring of Colors
Armed Forces Color Guard Military District of Washington
Keynote Remarks
Jim Knotts President and CEO, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Name Reading
Past Participants
“The Unsung Heroes”
Chuck Price (recording)
In Memory Honor Roll Call
Family and Friends
Taps Laying of Tributes
Family and Friends at The Wall
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2016 IN MEMORY HONOREES Their names are not inscribed on The Wall, but their spirits and memory are ever present. Herbert McKinley Ables, Jr. .......................... June 13, 1947 – July 8, 2015
Marcellis Eugene Cline ........................... April 5, 1946 – August 15, 2015
Joseph Andrew Adamski, Sr.................... January 20, 1945 – June 8, 2008
Edward Michael Connelly ......................... May 20, 1949 – May 18, 2014
John Louis Anderson .......................... June 16, 1946 – February 10, 2016
Claude Winston Conner, Sr. ....... December 17, 1946 – February 28, 1998
George Dee Angerbrandt................. February 13, 1950 – August 23, 2010
Albert Wayne Corriveau ........................ July 17, 1943 – January 21, 2014
James Austin Ansley ............................ August 3, 1946 – January 4, 2008
Nelson Couch ............................. October 25, 1949 – February 22, 2012
Charles Fredrick Ashley ..................... October 22, 1944 – March 9, 2015
Robert Lynn Craycroft ............................... June 14, 1948 – May 29, 2011
Cleburne E. Atwell ....................... January 13, 1946 – November 2, 2015
Steven Paul Croft ............................. September 18, 1947 – May 25, 2015
Robert William Austin ................ November 9, 1946 – October 29, 1994
Charles Edson Crone ..................................... June 5, 1947 – June 7, 2013
Arlin Lee Bahls ............................................. July 1, 1952 – May 26, 2015
Russell Lee Crossman ....................... September 3, 1950 – April 25, 2008
George Joseph Barrett ....................... February 19, 1945 – April 13, 2008
Merl Wesley Crutcher ..................... February 3, 1949 – January 25, 2015
Jerry Dean Bascom, Sr. ................................. April 3, 1947 – July 8, 1994
Dennis Paul Dadak, Sr. .............................. May 9, 1948 – April 26, 2013
Clynton Randolf Bassett ....................... October 2, 1950 – June 22, 2015
Ronald James Dallas ........................... June 6, 1947 – December 6, 2000
Arthur Joseph Begin ................................. April 20, 1949 – May 19, 2013
James Allen Dare ........................... October 15, 1946 – October 4, 2012
Anthony George Benner ....... November 28, 1945 – September 11, 2015
Royce Allen Davenport .......................... October 28, 1947 – July 1, 2014
Donald Eugene Bennett ....................... June 2, 1945 – February 27, 2015
Carmey Colin Davidson .................. January 29, 1947 – January 24, 2016
Wayne Ethan Berry .............................. August 30, 1941 – April 12, 2014
Everett Charles Davidson ............. January 7, 1942 – September 23, 2011
David Joseph Betti ......................... December 18, 1949 – April 30, 2015
Kenneth Lee Defoe ......................... June 15, 1946 – September 13, 2013
Arthur Stanley Bialoskurski .................... August 15, 1945 – July 25, 2007
Robert Francis Delaney .................... January 19, 1947 – August 23, 2015
Robert Anton Blakely ...................... February 20, 1929 – January 1, 2013
Gregory Deutsch ............................. February 24, 1947 – August 9, 2015
Kenneth Harold Bloom, Sr. ................... August 26, 1943 – May 19, 2013
Malvin Earl Dickinson ....................... August 8, 1949 – October 27, 2013
Rodney Joseph Bluechel ............................. April 2, 1939 – April 2, 2014
Richard Allen Dillon .................... September 29, 1949 – August 25, 2012
Joseph Edward Boback ............... August 21, 1947 – September 21, 2007
Joseph Peter Donatone .............................. June 6, 1947 – March 1, 2014
Ralph Edward Bolin ............... September 17, 1945 – December 10, 2002
John Joseph Donnelly ............ November 30, 1931 – December 21, 2013
Ronald Dale Boothe ........................... October 20, 1948 – June 10, 2012
Herman Downs ................................ September 25, 1947 – June 5, 1990
Thomas Gordon Boren, III .................... August 7, 1950 – January 1, 2015
Dennis Eugene Drebert .................... January 17, 1948 – January 19, 2010
Joseph Eugene Bourgouin ................ October 2, 1932 – January 15, 2011
Henry Ford Driver, Jr. ....................... May 14, 1943 – November 27, 1970
Thomas Franklin Brock ................ January 7, 1947 – November 19, 2009
Edgar Paul Duker ................................. January 19, 1943 – April 11, 2013
Peter Francis Brown, Jr. ......................... April 21, 1949 – August 18, 2014
Michael Vernon Dunlap ....................... May 13, 1947 – January 18, 2012
Lavoice Ray Bryant ................................. July 9, 1947 – January 26, 2013
Stephen Douglas Eaves ......................... August 30, 1944 – June 12, 2010
Kevin Christopher Buckley .................... January 4, 1947 – April 28, 2014
Robert Cecil Edwards ................................. April 13, 1944 – July 31, 2011
Jimmie Neal Bullock ............................ August 17, 1947 – April 20, 2003
Frank William Elberson ..................... November 3, 1935 – June 20, 2014
Thomas Michael Butcher ..................... March 1, 1949 – March 14, 2012
Marvin Erb ............................ December 21, 1948 – December 11, 2000
James Warren Buzzell, Jr. ........ September 23, 1946 – November 11, 1979
William Clyle Eubanks .............................. March 2, 1942 – July 20, 2015
Henry Wayne Carter ......................... March 24, 1944 – January 13, 2012
Charles Edward Evans ........................ January 22, 1948 – March 6, 2013
William Fredrick Castleberry ............. April 14, 1947 – February 12, 2010
Charles Roderick Everett ............................ July 25, 1944 – June 16, 2013
Robert John Castor ............................ August 19, 1946 – January 21, 2011
Brian Louis Everman....................... December 9, 1950 – August 15, 2013
Roy Edward Chambers, Sr. ................ April 16, 1950 – October 22, 2004
Peter Douglas Fargey ........................... July 3, 1942 – November 3, 2001
Walter Allen Cheatham ............. February 1, 1943 – September 29, 2006
Jared Lee Fassler ....................................... April 14, 1947 – June 24, 2012
Richard Wayne Clarke ........................... July 30, 1945 – August 19, 2015
Carl Frederick Ferguson .................. September 25, 1950 – June 13, 2011
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2016 IN MEMORY HONOREES Their names are not inscribed on The Wall, but their spirits and memory are ever present. Jack William Ferguson .............................. January 9, 1952 – June 9, 2013
Daniel Willard Hoch ................................ May 15, 1941 – March 4, 2011
Richard James Fifield ................... August 23, 1950 – November 29, 2009
James Jeffery Hodge ................... November 9, 1946 – February 19, 2015
William Kenneth Finken, Jr. .................... August 29, 1951 – July 19, 2014
Melvin Ray Hopkins .............................. August 28, 1947 – May 27, 2015
Larry Gene First ................................. September 20, 1951 – July 5, 2014
Everette Wayne Hough ............................ April 25, 1948 – April 21, 2011
David Edward Fisher ......................... November 29, 1945 – July 27, 2014
Warren Mark Hove ........................... May 6, 1947 – September 29, 2012
William Lawrence Fisher ............................ August 1, 1948 – June 7, 1974
Emery Stanley Hudy .................................. July 24, 1941 – March 6, 2012
Carl Patrick Fitchie ............................... May 18, 1949 – January 23, 2015
John William Hughes, Sr. ...................... June 29, 1934 – August 16, 2002
Frank Joseph Floccari, Sr. ................. June 30, 1947 – September 3, 2001
James Leroy Hurt .................. December 15, 1942 – September 12, 2014
Patrick William Francis ................. October 11, 1948 – February 18, 2015
Douglas Arthur Johnson ............ December 6, 1938 – September 6, 2015
Richard Alois Fronauer ....................... December 4, 1948 – April 3, 2012
Glen LeRoy Johnson ................................. July 3, 1949 – August 10, 2011
Michael McKelly Frontera, Jr. ........ August 4, 1947 – December 29, 2015
Lynn Richard Johnson .................... August 24, 1949 – February 14, 2015
Philip Edward Gabel .............................. July 14, 1947 – August 24, 2009
Walter Sherman Jones ................... February 17, 1947 – October 8, 2004
Joseph Peter Gagliardo, Jr. .......................... July 19, 1929 – May 30, 2002
William Roger Jordan .............. November 14, 1943 – December 1, 2013
Harvey Joseph Gagnon, Jr ....................... May 3, 1949 – August 24, 2015
Don Edwin Juencke ......................... June 21, 1942 – November 25, 2008
Ernest Wayne Garard ................................. June 24, 1947 – July 28, 2015
Mark Andrew Keilty ................................ March 5, 1949 – April 11, 2009
George James Garcia .................... February 22, 1949 – October 5, 1981
John Lynn Kelley .............................. January 18, 1945 – October 3, 2013
Claude Edward Goble ....................... May 7, 1945 – September 30, 2012
Donald Frank Kennedy ............................ April 22, 1947 – May 10, 2011
Daniel Richard Gogol ................... March 29, 1949 – September 3, 2009
George Edward Keough, III ................. June 8, 1948 – December 4, 2014
David John Goncar ......................... December 27, 1948 – June 16, 2014
Wayne Roger Key ........................... January 4, 1945 – December 6, 2014
David Wesley Gould ......................... June 6, 1947 – November 15, 2011
Weldon Gene Keymon ........................ February 1, 1946 – June 17, 1998
Richard Joseph Grenier .................. March 5, 1941 – September 28, 2014
Robert James Kidwell ....................... March 17, 1948 – October 25, 2011
Robert Christian Gruber ...................... January 30, 1934 – March 4, 2012
Milton Hatfield Kinney, Jr. ............... June 20, 1949 – December 25, 2014
Bennie Earl Grun ............................. May 23, 1949 – September 10, 2010
Ralph Lewis Kirby .......................... August 7, 1945 – December 12, 2015
Thomas Jay Guffey ................ November 24, 1946 – December 20, 2011
Gary Franklin Klingel ............................ October 7, 1948 – May 28, 2014
Jon Edward Hall .............................. October 4, 1949 – February 1, 2004
Gerald James Konkel .......................... August 31, 1949 – January 8, 2014
Michael Clair Hamm ............................. July 1, 1945 – February 19, 2014
Salvatore Frank La Fata ...................... October 20, 1949 – April 25, 1991
Dennis Lynn Hammond ........ December 28, 1945 – September 14, 2012
David Henry Laake ..................... September 20, 1948 – August 16, 1982
Michael Stephen Hamrick ...................... March 2, 1946 – March 4, 2015
Kenneth Edward Lambert ..................... January 21, 1950 – May 24, 2010
Charles Martin Harding ........................... April 30, 1948 – April 22, 2007
Kirk LeRoi Lane .................................. March 14, 1940 – August 20, 2012
Roy Lee Harris ....................... December 16, 1946 – December 18, 2009
Richard Charles Lange ................ August 31, 1944 – December 24, 2013
David William Haskell ............................... July 24, 1947 – May 12, 2011
Charles Paul Larsen ....................... August 8, 1951 – December 16, 1979
Robert George Heckman ............... February 20, 1949 – August 22, 2014
Ronald Richard Laughman ................. January 1, 1951 – October 9, 2014
James Arthur Heiman ......................... February 3, 1945 – August 8, 2013
Larry Eugene Letterman ........................... August 3, 1946 – April 9, 2013
Michael Allen Hemphill ...................... May 3, 1947 – February 29, 2008
Guy Austin Lewis .................. December 11, 1948 – September 25, 2011
James Joseph Henke ................................... May 22, 1948 – July 17, 2012
Richard Alan Lighthall ................ January 25, 1947 – September 22, 2013
William Burton Henline, IV ................ August 11, 1944 – March 17, 2005
Ellsworth William Little, Jr. .............. August 3, 1944 – November 6, 1982
Paul Marshall Hensley .............. October 26, 1947 – September 24, 1980
James Allen Logsdon, Sr. ...................... February 7, 1949 – May 21, 2015
Craig Masayuki Higashiyama ..... September 24, 1950 – October 11, 2008
Juan Chaires Lopez ............................. January 31, 1946 – April 10, 2015
Michael Vaughn Hill ................. October 22, 1949 – December 16, 2013
Rickey Lee Lowe .......................... January 16, 1949 – November 5, 2015
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2016 IN MEMORY HONOREES Their names are not inscribed on The Wall, but their spirits and memory are ever present. Douglas William Lowry ........................ October 5, 1948 – April 8, 2014
Stanley Marvin Oliver .......................... May 30, 1946 – January 10, 2013
Paul Andrew Maguire ................. November 21, 1947 – October 3, 2013
Eugene Jonas Ordaz .......................... February 16, 1941 – March 6, 2015
Ronald William Maple .................. August 10, 1944 – December 7, 2014
Daniel James Owen, Sr. ............................... July 8, 1947 – June 21, 2015
Roger Louis Mason ....................................... May 7, 1946 – May 6, 2013
Richard Paul Pace ......................... November 30, 1947 – August 8, 2010
Anthony Rudolph Matola, Sr. ............... November 2, 1950 – July 8, 2015
Miguel Pacheco ..................................... July 3, 1933 – October 15, 2007
Daniel Anthony Mauro ......................... June 12, 1947 – August 16, 2015
Louis Raymond Packard “Flying Hawk”.... January 16, 1947 – July 29, 2015
Robert Edward Mawhinney, Sr. ..... December 4, 1946 – January 14, 2003
Richard Walter Paczewski .............. September 23, 1946 – April 15, 2000
George Ellis McComesky ............................ March 7, 1944 – July 6, 2013
Joseph Anthony Pallante ......................... March 19, 1951 – June 8, 2005
Earl Gene McKinley .............................. August 12, 1943 – May 13, 2015
John Frank Parisi ...................................... May 13, 1946 – June 10, 2004
Michael Lewis McLane, Sr. ............. April 15, 1948 – September 14, 1995
William Robert Paschall .............. October 11, 1943 – November 6, 2013
Clifford Marvin McNaught ...................... March 25, 1948 – May 8, 2008
Russell Adelbert Patton, Jr. ........... October 31, 1943 – February 18, 2015
Dennis John Medjesky ................... September 23, 1948 – April 16, 2011
Dallas Dean Pedersen .................................. July 17, 1942 – July 27, 2015
Albert Craig Miller .................................. June 16, 1944 – January 2, 2011
Charles Edward Perkins ........... September 5, 1949 – December 11, 2015
Gregory James Miller ............................ March 30, 1948 – April 19, 2014
Jimmy Ralph Perkins ............. November 19, 1943 – November 15, 2008
Thomas Glenn Miller .................. November 28, 1946 – August 12, 2013
Flory Louis Perone ........................... May 25, 1946 – November 5, 2006
Gary Richard Minkler ...................... December 27, 1947 – May 30, 2005
Dennis Marin Perry ............................... January 7, 1947 – April 10, 2006
James Patrick Mogan ....................... June 25, 1950 – December 12, 2014
Anthony Joseph Peters, III ................ December 6, 1946 – March 2, 1976
William Edward Mooney ............. January 1, 1949 – December 31, 2014
Gregory Joseph Petersen .................. April 20, 1947 – December 3, 2014
Jerald Clifford Moore ...................... October 18, 1949 – August 15, 2001
Peter Philip Philhower ................. August 30, 1937 – November 18, 2013
Laurence William Moore .................. October 2, 1944 – January 8, 2003
Clifford Chester Phillips, Jr. .............. January 23, 1946 – October 6, 1988
Jerry Pierpont Morgan .............. February 19, 1940 – September 15, 2011
William Robert Pierangeli ................. February 2, 1946 – March 14, 2015
Kenneth Robert Morgan .............. August 26, 1949 – September 23, 2014
Kenneth Gale Poehlman ............... December 16, 1948 – August 8, 2015
Jerry Lee Mudd .................................. February 16, 1945 – June 13, 2014
Olaf James Pokrajac ...................... November 4, 1950 – August 10, 2015
John Francis Mullady .............................. August 29, 1946 – July 22, 2015
Paul Anthony Polifrone ........................... August 9, 1946 – May 24, 2012
Christopher James Murphy ............ August 18, 1950 – December 2, 2013
Arthur Leo Ponte ............................ December 3, 1943 – March 13, 2015
Robert Joseph Murphy ..................... September 22, 1944 – July 23, 2012
Alan Ray Price ................................. October 31, 1947 – August 30, 2014
Thomas Lee Nagel ....................... January 16, 1949 – September 1, 2015
David William Priebe ................................ March 2, 1948 – May 3, 2009
Kevin Ringer Neely ................................. April 15, 1951 – April 13, 2009
Tommy Albert Provence, Jr. ................... January 21, 1948 – July 18, 2004
Lonnie Rodger Nevitt ........................ May 9, 1949 – November 27, 2014
Thomas Vincent Provencial ............ November 23, 1946 – June 21, 2014
Eddie Joe Newill ..................................... August 22, 1949 – April 2, 2015
Angelo Pumello ...................................... May 8, 1924 – August 28, 2007
Ollie Richard Nichols, Jr. ................................ May 3, 1939 – July 7, 2000
Peter Thomas Putrino ........................ September 18, 1947 – May 1, 2005
John Steven Nix ................................... February 1, 1950 – May 10, 2015
Francis William Rabideau ......................... May 30, 1941 – April 14, 2011
Wayne Mitchell Noller ................... March 6, 1950 – December 11, 2011
DuWayne Alan Reade ............... October 11, 1951 – December 18, 2014
James Norman, Sr. ........................ November 30, 1945 – August 4, 1968
Michael Moore Reddan ................................ April 4, 1942 – July 8, 2012
Donald Norris ............................. November 20, 1946 – October 1, 2014
Dennis Anthony Reinhold ............... August 6, 1950 – December 7, 2015
Barry Edward Norton ...................... November 14, 1950 – June 25, 2014
Vern Sherrill Reynalds ................. January 24, 1939 – December 21, 2013
Frank Edward Nowicki ................................ May 24, 1947 – May 5, 2015
Thomas Andrew Richards .......................... April 4, 1947 – June 18, 2014
Michael Joseph O’Brien ............................. April 3, 1945 – May 25, 2012
William Lloyd Richards ............................ June 3, 1938 – March 24, 2015
Robert Preston O’Bryan, Jr. ............ February 16, 1946 – February 4, 2007
Fred Hunter Richmond, III .................... July 24, 1939 – January 26, 2005
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2016 IN MEMORY HONOREES Their names are not inscribed on The Wall, but their spirits and memory are ever present. Robert Francis Riskie ......................... June 24, 1940 – September 7, 2010
Terry Eugene Thompson ................... October 5, 1953 – January 8, 2004
Johnie David Robbins, Jr. ......... September 6, 1931 – December 31, 1996
James Edward Thompson, Jr. ................ August 28, 1946 – April 20, 2015
Gerald Wayne Roberts ............................... June 28, 1949 – July 29, 2014
Rodger Lee Thorn, I ..................... September 5, 1948 – January 17, 2013
Henry Wesley Robinson ........................ June 28, 1949 – March 17, 2012
John Patrick Tomaino ............................. July 25, 1945 – October 1, 2013
Roger Dale Rollings, Sr. .................... September 2, 1948 – April 20, 2012
Steven Cantu Torres .............................. August 31, 1946 – May 28, 2014
Nicholas Jerome Ruhland ............. August 22, 1950 – November 27, 2013
Grady Cecil Usrey ........................................ April 7, 1947 – April 7, 2014
Robert Raymond Salazar ................... May 19, 1948 – November 1, 2001
Robert Valentine ................................. February 19, 1948 – July 10, 1987
Robert William Sanders, Jr. .................. July 24, 1952 – February 18, 2006
Floyd William Valline ................................. April 27, 1945 – May 8, 2008
John Anthony Santer ..................... February 2, 1947 – February 10, 2016
Charles Gordon Vaughan ................ November 23, 1924 – June 25, 2003
Robert Dudley Sauer, Sr. ............ December 15, 1946 – February 6, 2015
John Freeman Wade ........................ September 5, 1947 – August 2, 1991
Arthur William Schafmayer ............... January 30, 1946 – March 13, 2013
Richard John Wagar ................................ March 26, 1946 – July 31, 2015
Dominick Frank Schiavone ........ February 2, 1949 – December 27, 2002
James Arthur Waldron ................... January 21, 1947 – February 12, 1986
Terry Elsworth Schloesser ................ May 25, 1945 – September 16, 2011
Marvin William Walther .......................... July 16, 1939 – March 21, 2015
James Anthony Selner ........................ June 13, 1936 – February 15, 2015
William Jackson Warner ................... January 16, 1938 – January 17, 2011
Richard Neel Sendler, Sr. ...................... April 6, 1944 – October 3, 2013
William Gerald Watland ....................... August 12, 1948 – June 14, 1992
Gordon Allen Shaw ............................... August 22, 1943 – May 20, 1998
Frankie Dwight Weaver .............. September 21, 1951 – January 26, 2010
Robert Clifton Shelton .............................. June 13, 1947 – March 7, 2015
Dennis Jasper Webber ................... November 2, 1941 – January 1, 2012
George Francis Shookla .......................... May 1, 1947 – August 13, 2010
Howard Conklin Wendell, Jr. .................. August 14, 1948 – June 6, 1976
Sal Arturo Silva .................................. August 6, 1948 – January 28, 2013
Larry Dean Westerfield ................. February 14, 1949 – October 8, 2012
Donald Neill Simon ...................... March 26, 1947 – November 6, 1999
Riley Dee Westerfield, Jr. ............................ June 14, 1948 – May 3, 2014
Paul Arthur Simoneau ........................ September 24, 1949 – July 7, 2015
Carey Paul White ................................ January 17, 1949 – August 8, 2014
Richard Ken Simpson ...................... September 18, 1948 – June 16, 2013
Dale Eston Williams ................................ July 8, 1950 – January 19, 2005
Thomas Fletcher Sims, Sr. ....... November 3, 1945 – November 10, 2001
Michael Ernest Williams ....................... August 27, 1946 – March 8, 2014
Anthony James Slomski ................. March 6, 1948 – September 11, 2004
Donald Dean Wilson ............ December 14, 1942 – December 22, 2012
Edward Donald Smith .................... March 6, 1942 – December 31, 2013
John Brown Wilson ............................. July 14, 1939 – February 23, 2014
Roy Lamonte Smith ............................. July 7, 1950 – December 12, 1997
Otho Neal Winchester ......................... April 30, 1951 – August 20, 2000
Kennedy Lee Smith, Jr. ..................... November 17, 1945 – July 13, 2008
Daniel Joseph Wing ................................ April 6, 1946 – January 5, 2007
James Joseph Smith, Sr. ......... December 10, 1943 – September 13, 2015
Ronald Lee Wise ................................. January 2, 1947 – January 7, 2015
Charles Timothy Souther, Sr. ................. August 30, 1946 – May 13, 2014
Gary Duane Wolfe ......................... September 27, 1946 – March 6, 2010
James Wilson Spence, Sr. ................ December 21, 1946 – May 10, 2010
William Wesley Wolfe ................ January 24, 1946 – September 5, 2008
Jeffrey Joseph Stainner ................. October 31, 1944 – October 14, 2006
Thomas Jefferson Wood, Jr. ................ May 10, 1947 – February 19, 2013
William Lee Stewart ......................... March 11, 1947 – October 25, 2013
David Kent Wright .............................. January 10, 1944 – June 26, 2008
William Carroll Stone, III ............................. July 27, 1950 – July 29, 2002
Greyson Troutman Yetter ............. September 2, 1931 – January 16, 2015
Luther Edward Sullivan, Jr. ............... May 28, 1937 – November 29, 2014
Clyde Robert Young ............................... January 27, 1950 – July 16, 2011
David Clement Surges ................ December 26, 1947 – January 26, 2016
George Louis Yubeta ........................... February 22, 1944 – June 8, 2015
Edward Paul Sweger ......................... November 21, 1948 – April 4, 2015
Donald Earnest Zabawa ................... November 2, 1946 – March 4, 2015
Willis Harrison Taylor, III ................... July 17, 1946 – November 22, 2012
James Robert Zimmerman ................ November 13, 1945 – July 20, 2015
David George TeBordo ........................... March 15, 1948 – July 30, 2014
Michael Zimmerman ................................ April 6, 1945 – August 1, 2015
Dennis Robert Thieman .............. February 18, 1950 – October 15, 2005
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Herbert McKinley Ables, Jr. June 13, 1947 – July 8, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1971
George Dee Angerbrandt February 13, 1950 – August 23, 2010 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Cleburne E. Atwell January 13, 1946 – November 2, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
Joseph Andrew Adamski, Sr January 20, 1945 – June 8, 2008 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
James Austin Ansley August 3, 1946 – January 4, 2008 U.S. Army, 1971-1972
Robert William Austin November 9, 1946 – October 29, 1994 U.S. Army, 1965-1968
John Louis Anderson June 16, 1946 – February 10, 2016 U.S. Army, 1963-1969
Charles Fredrick Ashley October 22, 1944 – March 9, 2015 U.S. Army, 1965-1971
Arlin Lee Bahls July 1, 1952 – May 26, 2015 U.S. Army, 1971-1972
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
George Joseph Barrett February 19, 1945 – April 13, 2008 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Arthur Joseph Begin April 20, 1949 – May 19, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1969
Wayne Ethan Berry August 30, 1941 – April 12, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1960 -1982
Jerry Dean Bascom, Sr. April 3, 1947 – July 8, 1994 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966 -1967
Anthony George Benner November 28, 1945 – September 11, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1964-1975
David Joseph Betti December 18, 1949 – April 30, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1971
Clynton Randolf Bassett October 2, 1950 – June 22, 2015 U.S. Navy, 1970-1974
Donald Eugene Bennett June 2, 1945 – February 27, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Arthur Stanley Bialoskurski August 15, 1945 – July 25, 2007 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Robert Anton Blakely February 20, 1929 – January 1, 2013 U.S. Air Force, 1970-1971
Joseph Edward Boback August 21, 1947 – September 21, 2007 U.S. Army, 1967
Thomas Gordon Boren, III August 7, 1950 – January 1, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1973
Kenneth Harold Bloom, Sr August 26, 1943 – May 19, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1962-1966
Ralph Edward Bolin September 17, 1945 – December 10, 2002 U.S. Air Force, 1963-1966
Joseph Eugene Bourgouin October 2, 1932 – January 15, 2011 U.S. Army, 1954-1975
Rodney Joseph Bluechel April 2, 1939 – April 2, 2014 U.S. Army, 1960-1963
Ronald Dale Boothe October 20, 1948 – June 10, 2012 U.S. Army, 1967-1970
Thomas Franklin Brock January 7, 1947 – November 19, 2009 U.S. Navy, 1966-1968
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Peter Francis Brown, Jr. April 21, 1949 – August 18, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1970
Jimmie Neal Bullock August 17, 1947 – April 20, 2003 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Henry Wayne Carter March 24, 1944 – January 13, 2012 U.S. Air Force, 1966
Lavoice Ray Bryant July 9, 1947 – January 26, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1965-1974
Thomas Michael Butcher March 1, 1949 – March 14, 2012 U.S. Army, 1967-1973
William Fredrick Castleberry April 14, 1947 – February 12, 2010 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Kevin Christopher Buckley January 4, 1947 – April 28, 2014 U.S. Army, 1969-1971
James Warren Buzzell, Jr. September 23, 1946 – November 11, 1979 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Robert John Castor August 19, 1946 – January 21, 2011 U.S. Navy, 1965-1989
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Roy Edward Chambers, Sr. April 16, 1950 – October 22, 2004 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1969
Marcellis Eugene Cline April 5, 1946 – August 15, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Albert Wayne Corriveau July 17, 1943 – January 21, 2014 U.S. Army, 1965-1966
Walter Allen Cheatham February 1, 1943 – September 29, 2006 U.S. Marine Corps, 1961-1967
Edward Michael Connelly May 20, 1949 – May 18, 2014 U.S. Navy, 1969-1972
Nelson Couch October 25, 1949 – February 22, 2012 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Richard Wayne Clarke July 30, 1945 – August 19, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1965-1971
Claude Winston Conner, Sr. December 17, 1946 – February 28, 1998 U.S. Navy, 1963-1986
Robert Lynn Craycroft June 14, 1948 – May 29, 2011 U.S. Air Force, 1969-1970
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Steven Paul Croft September 18, 1947 – May 25, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Merl Wesley Crutcher February 3, 1949 – January 25, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1969-1973
James Allen Dare October 15, 1946 – October 4, 2012 U.S. Navy, 1968-1971
Charles Edson Crone June 5, 1947 – June 7, 2013 U.S. Air Force, 1967
Dennis Paul Dadak, Sr. May 9, 1948 – April 26, 2013 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Royce Allen Davenport October 28, 1947 – July 1, 2014 U.S. Army, 1969-1972
Russell Lee Crossman September 3, 1950 – April 25, 2008 U.S. Marine Corps, 1971-1972
Ronald James Dallas June 6, 1947 – December 6, 2000 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1967
Carmey Colin Davidson January 29, 1947 – January 24, 2016 U.S. Army, 1967-1987
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Everett Charles Davidson January 7, 1942 – September 23, 2011 U.S. Air Force, 1966
Gregory Deutsch February 24, 1947 – August 9, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1987
Joseph Peter Donatone June 6, 1947 – March 1, 2014 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Kenneth Lee Defoe June 15, 1946 – September 13, 2013 U.S. Army, 1966-1975
Malvin Earl Dickinson August 8, 1949 – October 27, 2013 U.S. Army, 1970-1973
John Joseph Donnelly November 30, 1931 – December 21, 2013 U.S. Air Force, 1966
Robert Francis Delaney January 19, 1947 – August 23, 2015 U.S. Navy, 1966 -1971
Richard Allen Dillon September 29, 1949 – August 25, 2012 U.S. Army, 1971-1972
Herman Downs September 25, 1947 – June 5, 1990 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1967
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Dennis Eugene Drebert January 17, 1948 – January 19, 2010 U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Navy, 1966, 1969-1970
Michael Vernon Dunlap May 13, 1947 – January 18, 2012 U.S. Navy, 1968-1970
Frank William Elberson November 3, 1935 – June 20, 2014 U.S. Navy, 1952-1971
Henry Ford Driver, Jr. May 14, 1943 – November 27, 1970 U.S. Army, 1962
Stephen Douglas Eaves August 30, 1944 – June 12, 2010 U.S. Air Force, 1967-1989
Marvin Erb December 21, 1948 – December 11, 2000 U.S. Army, 1971-1976
Edgar Paul Duker January 19, 1943 – April 11, 2013 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Robert Cecil Edwards April 13, 1944 – July 31, 2011 U.S. Air Force, 1969-1993
William Clyle Eubanks March 2, 1942 – July 20, 2015 U.S. Army, 1964-1966
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Charles Edward Evans January 22, 1948 – March 6, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968
Peter Douglas Fargey July 3, 1942 – November 3, 2001 U.S. Air Force, 1965-1966
Jack William Ferguson January 9, 1952 – June 9, 2013 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Charles Roderick Everett July 25, 1944 – June 16, 2013 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1967
Jared Lee Fassler April 14, 1947 – June 24, 2012 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Richard James Fifield August 23, 1950 – November 29, 2009 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Brian Louis Everman December 9, 1950 – August 15, 2013 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Carl Frederick Ferguson September 25, 1950 – June 13, 2011 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
William Kenneth Finken, Jr. August 29, 1951 – July 19, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1971-1972
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Larry Gene First September 20, 1951 – July 5, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1975
Carl Patrick Fitchie May 18, 1949 – January 23, 2015 U.S. Army, 1967-1970
Richard Alois Fronauer December 4, 1948 – April 3, 2012 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
David Edward Fisher November 29, 1945 – July 27, 2014 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Frank Joseph Floccari, Sr. June 30, 1947 – September 3, 2001 U.S. Army
Michael McKelly Frontera, Jr. August 4, 1947 – December 29, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
William Lawrence Fisher August 1, 1948 – June 7, 1974 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Patrick William Francis October 11, 1948 – February 18, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Philip Edward Gabel July 14, 1947 – August 24, 2009 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1970
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Joseph Peter Gagliardo, Jr. July 19, 1929 – May 30, 2002 U.S. Marine Corps, 1952-1979
George James Garcia February 22, 1949 – October 5, 1981 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
David John Goncar December 27, 1948 – June 16, 2014 U.S. Army, 1968 -1971
Harvey Joseph Gagnon, Jr May 3, 1949 – August 24, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Claude Edward Goble May 7, 1945 – September 30, 2012 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
David Wesley Gould June 6, 1947 – November 15, 2011 U.S. Army, 1968-1972
Ernest Wayne Garard June 24, 1947 – July 28, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
Daniel Richard Gogol March 29, 1949 – September 3, 2009 U.S. Army, 1969-1971
Richard Joseph Grenier March 5, 1941 – September 28, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1964-1965
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Robert Christian Gruber January 30, 1934 – March 4, 2012 U.S. Army, 1955-1982
Jon Edward Hall October 4, 1949 – February 1, 2004 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Michael Stephen Hamrick March 2, 1946 – March 4, 2015 U.S. Army, 1964 -1970
Bennie Earl Grun May 23, 1949 – September 10, 2010 U.S. Army, 1971-1976
Michael Clair Hamm July 1, 1945 – February 19, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1965-1974
Charles Martin Harding April 30, 1948 – April 22, 2007 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Thomas Jay Guffey November 24, 1946 – December 20, 2011 U.S. Marine Corps, 1964 -1968
Dennis Lynn Hammond December 28, 1945 – September 14, 2012 U.S. Army, 1966 -1967
Roy Lee Harris December 16, 1946 – December 18, 2009 U.S. Army, 1967
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
David William Haskell July 24, 1947 – May 12, 2011 U.S. Army, 1965-1966
Michael Allen Hemphill May 3, 1947 – February 29, 2008 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Paul Marshall Hensley October 26, 1947 – September 24, 1980 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Robert George Heckman February 20, 1949 – August 22, 2014 U.S. Navy, 1967-1971
James Joseph Henke May 22, 1948 – July 17, 2012 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Craig Masayuki Higashiyama September 24, 1950 – October 11, 2008 U.S. Army, 1969-1975
James Arthur Heiman February 3, 1945 – August 8, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1963-1967
William Burton Henline, IV August 11, 1944 – March 17, 2005 U.S. Army, 1967-1990
Michael Vaughn Hill October 22, 1949 – December 16, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1970, 1978-1980
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Daniel Willard Hoch May 15, 1941 – March 4, 2011 U.S. Army, 1963-1965
Everette Wayne Hough April 25, 1948 – April 21, 2011 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
John William Hughes, Sr. June 29, 1934 – August 16, 2002 U.S. Army, 1955-1976
James Jeffery Hodge November 9, 1946 – February 19, 2015 U.S. Army, 1965
Warren Mark Hove May 6, 1947 – September 29, 2012 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
James Leroy Hurt December 15, 1942 – September 12, 2014 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Melvin Ray Hopkins August 28, 1947 – May 27, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1987
Emery Stanley Hudy July 24, 1941 – March 6, 2012 U.S. Air Force, 1964-1975
Douglas Arthur Johnson December 6, 1938 – September 6, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1962-1983
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Glen LeRoy Johnson July 3, 1949 – August 10, 2011 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
William Roger Jordan November 14, 1943 – December 1, 2013 U.S. Army, 1965-1967, 1970-1971
John Lynn Kelley January 18, 1945 – October 3, 2013 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
Lynn Richard Johnson August 24, 1949 – February 14, 2015 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Don Edwin Juencke June 21, 1942 – November 25, 2008 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Donald Frank Kennedy April 22, 1947 – May 10, 2011 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Walter Sherman Jones February 17, 1947 – October 8, 2004 U.S. Marine Corps, 1965-1969
Mark Andrew Keilty March 5, 1949 – April 11, 2009 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1969
George Edward Keough, III June 8, 1948 – December 4, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1970
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Wayne Roger Key January 4, 1945 – December 6, 2014 U.S. Army, 1965-1967
Milton Hatfield Kinney, Jr. June 20, 1949 – December 25, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1969
Gerald James Konkel August 31, 1949 – January 8, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1969
Weldon Gene Keymon February 1, 1946 – June 17, 1998 U.S. Army, 1965-1967
Ralph Lewis Kirby August 7, 1945 – December 12, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969
Salvatore Frank La Fata October 20, 1949 – April 25, 1991 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Robert James Kidwell March 17, 1948 – October 25, 2011 U.S. Army, 1969
Gary Franklin Klingel October 7, 1948 – May 28, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps,1967-1969
David Henry Laake September 20, 1948 – August 16, 1982 U.S. Army, 1969-1972
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Kenneth Edward Lambert January 21, 1950 – May 24, 2010 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Charles Paul Larsen August 8, 1951 – December 16, 1979 U.S. Army, 1971-1972
Guy Austin Lewis December 11, 1948 – September 25, 2011 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Kirk LeRoi Lane March 14, 1940 – August 20, 2012 U.S. Army, 1965-1970
Ronald Richard Laughman January 1, 1951 – October 9, 2014 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Richard Alan Lighthall January 25, 1947 – September 22, 2013 U.S. Army, 1967, 1969
Richard Charles Lange August 31, 1944 – December 24, 2013 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Larry Eugene Letterman August 3, 1946 – April 9, 2013 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Ellsworth William Little, Jr. August 3, 1944 – November 6, 1982 U.S. Army, 1963-1976
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
James Allen Logsdon, Sr. February 7, 1949 – May 21, 2015 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Douglas William Lowry October 5, 1948 – April 8, 2014 U.S. Army, 1971
Roger Louis Mason May 7, 1946 – May 6, 2013 U.S. Army, 1966-1969
Juan Chaires Lopez January 31, 1946 – April 10, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Paul Andrew Maguire November 21, 1947 – October 3, 2013 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Anthony Rudolph Matola, Sr. November 2, 1950 – July 8, 2015 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Rickey Lee Lowe January 16, 1949 – November 5, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1970
Ronald William Maple August 10, 1944 – December 7, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1969
Daniel Anthony Mauro June 12, 1947 – August 16, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Robert Edward Mawhinney, Sr. December 4, 1946 – January 14, 2003 U.S. Army, 1967
Michael Lewis McLane, Sr. April 15, 1948 – September 14, 1995 U.S. Army, 1966-1972
Albert Craig Miller June 16, 1944 – January 2, 2011 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
George Ellis McComesky March 7, 1944 – July 6, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1962-1972
Clifford Marvin McNaught March 25, 1948 – May 8, 2008 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1969
Gregory James Miller March 30, 1948 – April 19, 2014 U.S. Army, 1965-1968
Earl Gene McKinley August 12, 1943 – May 13, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Dennis John Medjesky September 23, 1948 – April 16, 2011 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1969
Thomas Glenn Miller November 28, 1946 – August 12, 2013 U.S. Navy, 1965-1968
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Gary Richard Minkler December 27, 1947 – May 30, 2005 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
Jerald Clifford Moore October 18, 1949 – August 15, 2001 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Kenneth Robert Morgan August 26, 1949 – September 23, 2014 U.S. Army, 1967-1971
James Patrick Mogan June 25, 1950 – December 12, 2014 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Laurence William Moore October 2, 1944 – January 8, 2003 U.S. Army, 1969-1972
Jerry Lee Mudd February 16, 1945 – June 13, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1965-1969
William Edward Mooney January 1, 1949 – December 31, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1969
Jerry Pierpont Morgan February 19, 1940 – September 15, 2011 U.S. Air Force, 1958-1978
John Francis Mullady August 29, 1946 – July 22, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Christopher James Murphy August 18, 1950 – December 2, 2013 U.S. Army, 1970-1972
Kevin Ringer Neely April 15, 1951 – April 13, 2009 U.S. Army, 1969-1972
Ollie Richard Nichols, Jr. May 3, 1939 – July 7, 2000 U.S. Army, 1956-1975
Robert Joseph Murphy September 22, 1944 – July 23, 2012 U.S. Army, 1965-1967
Lonnie Rodger Nevitt May 9, 1949 – November 27, 2014 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
John Steven Nix February 1, 1950 – May 10, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
Thomas Lee Nagel January 16, 1949 – September 1, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1970
Eddie Joe Newill August 22, 1949 – April 2, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1972
Wayne Mitchell Noller March 6, 1950 – December 11, 2011 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
James Norman, Sr. November 30, 1945 – August 4, 1968 U.S. Army, 1964-1968
Frank Edward Nowicki May 24, 1947 – May 5, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Donald Norris November 20, 1946 – October 1, 2014 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Michael Joseph O’Brien April 3, 1945 – May 25, 2012 U.S. Army, 1964-1967
Barry Edward Norton November 14, 1950 – June 25, 2014 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Robert Preston O’Bryan, Jr. February 16, 1946 – February 4, 2007 U.S. Air Force, 1965-1967
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Stanley Marvin Oliver May 30, 1946 – January 10, 2013 U.S. Navy, 1964-1975
Eugene Jonas Ordaz February 16, 1941 – March 6, 2015 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Daniel James Owen, Sr. July 8, 1947 – June 21, 2015 U.S. Army, 1965-1968
IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Richard Paul Pace November 30, 1947 – August 8, 2010 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Richard Walter Paczewski September 23, 1946 – April 15, 2000 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
William Robert Paschall October 11, 1943 – November 6, 2013 U.S. Army, 1963-1993
Miguel Pacheco July 3, 1933 – October 15, 2007 U.S. Army, 1965-1966
Joseph Anthony Pallante March 19, 1951 – June 8, 2005 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1975
Russell Adelbert Patton, Jr. October 31, 1943 – February 18, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
Louis Raymond Packard “Flying Hawk” January 16, 1947 – July 29, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1974
John Frank Parisi May 13, 1946 – June 10, 2004 U.S. Marine Corps, 1965-1971
Dallas Dean Pedersen July 17, 1942 – July 27, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Charles Edward Perkins September 5, 1949 – December 11, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1971
Dennis Marin Perry January 7, 1947 – April 10, 2006 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
Peter Philip Philhower August 30, 1937 – November 18, 2013 U.S. Navy, 1960-1966
Jimmy Ralph Perkins November 19, 1943 – November 15, 2008 U.S. Air Force, 1961-1965
Anthony Joseph Peters, III December 6, 1946 – March 2, 1976 U.S. Navy, 1966-1967
Clifford Chester Phillips, Jr. January 23, 1946 – October 6, 1988 U.S. Marine Corps, 1965-1966, 1968
Flory Louis Perone May 25, 1946 – November 5, 2006 U.S. Navy
Gregory Joseph Petersen April 20, 1947 – December 3, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1972
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William Robert Pierangeli February 2, 1946 – March 14, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Kenneth Gale Poehlman December 16, 1948 – August 8, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Arthur Leo Ponte December 3, 1943 – March 13, 2015 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Tommy Albert Provence, Jr. January 21, 1948 – July 18, 2004 U.S. Marine Corps, 1965-1968
Olaf James Pokrajac November 4, 1950 – August 10, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Alan Ray Price October 31, 1947 – August 30, 2014 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
Thomas Vincent Provencial November 23, 1946 – June 21, 2014 U.S. Army, 1966-1967
Paul Anthony Polifrone August 9, 1946 – May 24, 2012 U.S. Army, 1971-1972
David William Priebe March 2, 1948 – May 3, 2009 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Angelo Pumello May 8, 1924 – August 28, 2007 U.S. Marine Corps, 1943-1969
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Peter Thomas Putrino September 18, 1947 – May 1, 2005 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1969
Michael Moore Reddan April 4, 1942 – July 8, 2012 U.S. Air Force, 1968-1969
Thomas Andrew Richards April 4, 1947 – June 18, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1970
Francis William Rabideau May 30, 1941 – April 14, 2011 U.S. Army, 1963-1965
Dennis Anthony Reinhold August 6, 1950 – December 7, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1969-1970
William Lloyd Richards June 3, 1938 – March 24, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1971-1972
DuWayne Alan Reade October 11, 1951 – December 18, 2014 U.S. Navy, 1969-1971
Vern Sherrill Reynalds January 24, 1939 – December 21, 2013 U.S. Army, 1956-1958, 1960-1978
Fred Hunter Richmond, III July 24, 1939 – January 26, 2005 U.S. Navy, 1958-1978
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Robert Francis Riskie June 24, 1940 – September 7, 2010 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Henry Wesley Robinson June 28, 1949 – March 17, 2012 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Robert Raymond Salazar May 19, 1948 – November 1, 2001 U.S. Navy, 1969-1971
Johnie David Robbins, Jr. September 6, 1931 – December 31, 1996 U.S. Navy, 1949-1971
Roger Dale Rollings, Sr. September 2, 1948 – April 20, 2012 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Robert William Sanders, Jr. July 24, 1952 – February 18, 2006 U.S. Army, 1970-1971
Gerald Wayne Roberts June 28, 1949 – July 29, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1969
Nicholas Jerome Ruhland August 22, 1950 – November 27, 2013 U.S. Navy, 1968-1972
John Anthony Santer February 2, 1947 – February 10, 2016 U.S. Army, 1966-1969
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Robert Dudley Sauer, Sr. December 15, 1946 – February 6, 2015 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
Terry Elsworth Schloesser May 25, 1945 – September 16, 2011 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Gordon Allen Shaw August 22, 1943 – May 20, 1998 U.S. Marine Corps, 1960-1988
Arthur William Schafmayer January 30, 1946 – March 13, 2013 U.S. Army, 1965-1966
James Anthony Selner June 13, 1936 – February 15, 2015 U.S. Navy, 1968-1971
Robert Clifton Shelton June 13, 1947 – March 7, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1968
Dominick Frank Schiavone February 2, 1949 – December 27, 2002 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Richard Neel Sendler, Sr. April 6, 1944 – October 3, 2013 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
George Francis Shookla May 1, 1947 – August 13, 2010 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Sal Arturo Silva August 6, 1948 – January 28, 2013 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Richard Ken Simpson September 18, 1948 – June 16, 2013 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Edward Donald Smith March 6, 1942 – December 31, 2013 U.S. Army, 1965-1966
Donald Neill Simon March 26, 1947 – November 6, 1999 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Thomas Fletcher Sims, Sr. November 3, 1945 – November 10, 2001 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
Roy Lamonte Smith July 7, 1950 – December 12, 1997 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
Paul Arthur Simoneau September 24, 1949 – July 7, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1979
Anthony James Slomski March 6, 1948 – September 11, 2004 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
James Edward Smith, Jr. May 3, 1949 – February 18, 2015 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Kennedy Lee Smith, Jr. November 17, 1945 – July 13, 2008 U.S. Army, 1965-1967
James Wilson Spence, Sr. December 21, 1946 – May 10, 2010 U.S. Army, 1969
William Carroll Stone, III July 27, 1950 – July 29, 2002 U.S. Army, 1969-1971
James Joseph Smith, Sr. December 10, 1943 – September 13, 2015 U.S. Army, 1965-1967
Jeffrey Joseph Stainner October 31, 1944 – October 14, 2006 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Luther Edward Sullivan, Jr. May 28, 1937 – November 29, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1963-1973
Charles Timothy Souther, Sr. August 30, 1946 – May 13, 2014 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1969
William Lee Stewart March 11, 1947 – October 25, 2013 U.S. Air Force, 1968-1972
David Clement Surges December 26, 1947 – January 26, 2016 U.S. Army, 1971-1972
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Edward Paul Sweger November 21, 1948 – April 4, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1972
Dennis Robert Thieman February 18, 1950 – October 15, 2005 U.S. Navy, 1969-1970
Rodger Lee Thorn, I September 5, 1948 – January 17, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1969
Willis Harrison Taylor, III July 17, 1946 – November 22, 2012 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1969
Terry Eugene Thompson October 5, 1953 – January 8, 2004 U.S. Navy, 1974-1977
John Patrick Tomaino July 25, 1945 – October 1, 2013 U.S. Air Force, 1966-1967
David George TeBordo March 15, 1948 – July 30, 2014 U.S. Army, 1967-1970
James Edward Thompson, Jr. August 28, 1946 – April 20, 2015 U.S. Army, 1964-1968
Steven Cantu Torres August 31, 1946 – May 28, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1964-1968
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Grady Cecil Usrey April 7, 1947 – April 7, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1967
Charles Gordon Vaughan November 23, 1924 – June 25, 2003 U.S. Air Force, 1943-1964
James Arthur Waldron January 21, 1947 – February 12, 1986 U.S. Army, 1967-1969
Robert Valentine February 19, 1948 – July 10, 1987 U.S. Army, 1968-1969
John Freeman Wade September 5, 1947 – August 2, 1991 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1969
Marvin William Walther July 16, 1939 – March 21, 2015 U.S. Air Force, 1957-1966
Floyd William Valline April 27, 1945 – May 8, 2008 U.S. Navy, 1965-1969
Richard John Wagar March 26, 1946 – July 31, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1974
William Jackson Warner January 16, 1938 – January 17, 2011 U.S. Marine Corps, 1964, 1968, 1971
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
William Gerald Watland August 12, 1948 – June 14, 1992 U.S. Army, 1969-1971
Howard Conklin Wendell, Jr. August 14, 1948 – June 6, 1976 U.S. Army, 1968-1971
Carey Paul White January 17, 1949 – August 8, 2014 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1971
Frankie Dwight Weaver September 21, 1951 – January 26, 2010 U.S. Army, 1972-1976
Larry Dean Westerfield February 14, 1949 – October 8, 2012 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
Dale Eston Williams July 8, 1950 – January 19, 2005 U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1970
Dennis Jasper Webber November 2, 1941 – January 1, 2012 U.S. Army, 1964-1987
Riley Dee Westerfield, Jr. June 14, 1948 – May 3, 2014 U.S. Army, 1968-1974
Michael Ernest Williams August 27, 1946 – March 8, 2014 U.S. Navy, 1963-1969
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Donald Dean Wilson December 14, 1942 – December 22, 2012 U.S. Navy, 1968-1982
Daniel Joseph Wing April 6, 1946 – January 5, 2007 U.S. Army, 1967-1968
William Wesley Wolfe January 24, 1946 – September 5, 2008 U.S. Army, 1964-1966
John Brown Wilson July 14, 1939 – February 23, 2014 U.S. Army, 1959-1978
Ronald Lee Wise January 2, 1947 – January 7, 2015 U.S. Army, 1966-1970
Thomas Jefferson Wood, Jr. May 10, 1947 – February 19, 2013 U.S. Marine Corps, 1968-1969
Otho Neal Winchester April 30, 1951 – August 20, 2000 U.S. Army, 1968-1974
Gary Duane Wolfe September 27, 1946 – March 6, 2010 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1969
David Kent Wright January 10, 1944 – June 25, 2008 U.S. Army, 1966-1968
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL 2016 Inductees
Greyson Troutman Yetter September 2, 1931 – January 16, 2015 U.S. Army, 1969-1970
George Louis Yubeta February 22, 1944 – June 8, 2015 U.S. Army, 1968-1970
James Robert Zimmerman November 13, 1945 – July 20, 2015 U.S. Army, 1965-1968
Clyde Robert Young January 27, 1950 – July 16, 2011 U.S. Navy, 1968-1972
Donald Earnest Zabawa November 2, 1946 – March 4, 2015 U.S. Marine Corps, 1966-1967
Michael Zimmerman April 6, 1945 – August 1, 2015 U.S. Army, 1965-1967
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL INDUCTEES INDEX BY STATE Alabama.....................................................................Henry Ford Driver, Jr. Alabama.................................................................... Vern Sherrill Reynalds Alabama.................................................................. William Lloyd Richards Arizona................................................................... Frank William Elberson Arizona..................................................................Douglas Arthur Johnson Arizona......................................................................Gary Richard Minkler Arizona.......................................................................George Louis Yubeta Arkansas..................................................................Frankie Dwight Weaver California............................................................... Clynton Randolf Bassett California....................................................................... David Joseph Betti California............................................................. Thomas Michael Butcher California................................................................Dennis Eugene Drebert California............................................................... Carl Frederick Ferguson California....................................................... Craig Masayuki Higashiyama California.........................................................................Wayne Roger Key California.......................................................................... Rickey Lee Lowe California......................................................................Dennis Marin Perry California...................................................................Peter Thomas Putrino California..............................................................Johnie David Robbins, Jr. California..................................................................Robert Clifton Shelton California............................................................................ Sal Arturo Silva California................................................................... Floyd William Valline California..........................................................Thomas Jefferson Wood, Jr. Canada......................................................................... Richard John Wagar Colorado.............................................................. John William Hughes, Sr. Colorado...............................................................Robert Raymond Salazar Connecticut.................................................................... James Norman, Sr. Connecticut..............................................................Frank Edward Nowicki Connecticut...........................................................William Carroll Stone, III DC....................................................................William Burton Henline, IV Delaware................................................................. Daniel Anthony Mauro Florida............................................................................Robert John Castor Florida.......................................................................Richard Wayne Clarke Florida.............................................................................. Gregory Deutsch Florida.........................................................................Michael Clair Hamm Florida............................................................................. Ralph Lewis Kirby Florida.......................................................................Jerry Pierpont Morgan Florida........................................................................ Lonnie Rodger Nevitt Florida....................................................................... Stanley Marvin Oliver Florida....................................................................William Jackson Warner Georgia................................................................................. Donald Norris Georgia........................................................... Charles Timothy Souther, Sr. Georgia............................................................................ Carey Paul White Hawaii..................................................................... Stephen Douglas Eaves Idaho.........................................................................Malvin Earl Dickinson Idaho............................................................................Eugene Jonas Ordaz Idaho.........................................................................Dallas Dean Pedersen Illinois...............................................................Herbert McKinley Ables, Jr. Illinois.......................................................................Robert William Austin Illinois....................................................................... Robert Lynn Craycroft Illinois....................................................................... Merl Wesley Crutcher Illinois.............................................................................. Edgar Paul Duker Illinois.......................................................................Jack William Ferguson Illinois......................................................................Patrick William Francis Illinois.........................................................................Gerald James Konkel Illinois................................................................... James Allen Logsdon, Sr. Illinois...................................................................... Ronald William Maple Illinois.................................................................. Laurence William Moore Illinois............................................................................ Thomas Lee Nagel Illinois........................................................................... Kevin Ringer Neely Illinois.......................................................................Peter Philip Philhower Illinois.......................................................................... Olaf James Pokrajac Illinois.................................................................................. Alan Ray Price Illinois..................................................................Francis William Rabideau Illinois.....................................................................James Edward Smith, Jr. Illinois.......................................................................David Clement Surges Illinois...................................................................Willis Harrison Taylor, III Illinois.............................................................................Grady Cecil Usrey Indiana.................................................................. Anthony George Benner Indiana.........................................................................Brian Louis Everman Indiana....................................................................... Ernest Wayne Garard Indiana......................................................................... Earl Gene McKinley Indiana..................................................................... Dennis John Medjesky Indiana..............................................................Tommy Albert Provence, Jr. Indiana.............................................................................. Ronald Lee Wise Indiana........................................................................... David Kent Wright Indiana......................................................................... Clyde Robert Young Iowa........................................................................ Jerry Dean Bascom, Sr.
Iowa................................................................................... Jon Edward Hall Iowa..........................................................................DuWayne Alan Reade Iowa...................................................................... Terry Eugene Thompson Kansas........................................................................... Wayne Ethan Berry Kansas................................................................................ Larry Gene First Kansas.............................................................................. James Leroy Hurt Kansas...........................................................................Don Edwin Juencke Kansas................................................................ Clifford Marvin McNaught Kansas........................................................................ Richard Ken Simpson Kentucky........................................................................ Cleburne E. Atwell Kentucky...............................................................................Nelson Couch Kentucky............................................................................. Jerry Lee Mudd Kentucky........................................................... Robert Preston O’Bryan, Jr. Kentucky...................................................................... Donald Neill Simon Kentucky................................................................. Larry Dean Westerfield Kentucky.............................................................. Riley Dee Westerfield, Jr. Maine....................................................................... Dennis Jasper Webber Maryland......................................................................Ronald Dale Boothe Maryland....................................................................Robert Cecil Edwards Maryland............................................................... Charles Roderick Everett Maryland..................................................................... David Edward Fisher Maryland............................................................ Ronald Richard Laughman Maryland.................................................................Charles Edward Perkins Maryland............................................................. William Robert Pierangeli Maryland................................................................Henry Wesley Robinson Maryland............................................................... Robert Dudley Sauer, Sr. Maryland................................................................... Paul Arthur Simoneau Maryland.......................................................................Roy Lamonte Smith Maryland................................................................Michael Ernest Williams Massachusetts...........................................................George Joseph Barrett Massachusetts...................................................... James Warren Buzzell, Jr. Massachusetts....................................................... Albert Wayne Corriveau Massachusetts............................................................. Richard Allen Dillon Massachusetts.......................................................William Lawrence Fisher Massachusetts.................................................... Harvey Joseph Gagnon, Jr. Massachusetts........................................................... Daniel Richard Gogol Massachusetts......................................................... Richard Joseph Grenier Massachusetts...................................................... Robert George Heckman Massachusetts.............................................................. Mark Andrew Keilty Massachusetts................................................... George Edward Keough, III Massachusetts..................................................... Milton Hatfield Kinney, Jr. Massachusetts........................................................... Paul Andrew Maguire Massachusetts.......................................................... Robert Joseph Murphy Massachusetts................................................................. Richard Paul Pace Massachusetts..............................................................John Freeman Wade Massachusetts.............................................................Michael Zimmerman Michigan..................................................................... John Louis Anderson Michigan..............................................................George Dee Angerbrandt Michigan........................................................ Michael McKelly Frontera, Jr. Michigan................................................................ Dennis Lynn Hammond Michigan......................................................................James Jeffery Hodge Michigan.......................................................................... Guy Austin Lewis Michigan....................................................................... Roger Louis Mason Michigan.............................................................. William Edward Mooney Michigan.................................................................... Jerald Clifford Moore Michigan............................................................... Kenneth Gale Poehlman Michigan....................................................................David William Priebe Michigan................................................................... Edward Donald Smith Michigan...................................................................... Dale Eston Williams Michigan...................................................................... Daniel Joseph Wing Michigan.................................................................. William Wesley Wolfe Minnesota............................................................................Arlin Lee Bahls Minnesota........................................................................ James Allen Dare Minnesota......................................................................Carl Patrick Fitchie Minnesota..................................................................... Warren Mark Hove Minnesota.............................................................Gregory Joseph Petersen Minnesota........................................................... Terry Elsworth Schloesser Mississippi...............................................................Charles Fredrick Ashley Mississippi.......................................................... Thomas Gordon Boren, III Missouri..................................................................... Gary Franklin Klingel Missouri.............................................................. Dennis Anthony Reinhold Montana........................................................................Gordon Allen Shaw Nebraska........................................................................... Eddie Joe Newill Nebraska..................................................................Wayne Mitchell Noller New Hampshire......................................................... Barry Edward Norton New Jersey........................................................ Arthur Stanley Bialoskurski New Jersey.............................................................. Dennis Paul Dadak, Sr. New Jersey................................................................. Peter Douglas Fargey
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IN MEMORY HONOR ROLL INDUCTEES INDEX BY STATE New Jersey..................................................................David Wesley Gould New Jersey......................................................... Ellsworth William Little, Jr. New Jersey.................................................. Robert Edward Mawhinney, Sr. New Jersey..................................................................... Flory Louis Perone New Jersey.............................................................. Paul Anthony Polifrone New Jersey............................................................... Jeffrey Joseph Stainner New Jersey........................................................... Greyson Troutman Yetter New York........................................................ Joseph Andrew Adamski, Sr. New York........................................................... Kevin Christopher Buckley New York.....................................................................Ronald James Dallas New York................................................................Robert Francis Delaney New York................................................................ Joseph Peter Donatone New York.......................................................................... Jared Lee Fassler New York....................................................................Richard James Fifield New York.......................................................... William Kenneth Finken, Jr. New York............................................................. Frank Joseph Floccari, Sr. New York.....................................................................Emery Stanley Hudy New York................................................................ Salvatore Frank La Fata New York..................................................................Richard Alan Lighthall New York....................................................................... Albert Craig Miller New York................................................................... Gregory James Miller New York....................................................................John Francis Mullady New York.......................................................................... John Frank Parisi New York..........................................................................Arthur Leo Ponte New York.......................................................... Arthur William Schafmayer New York...........................................................Dominick Frank Schiavone New York................................................................ James Joseph Smith, Sr. New York................................................................ David George TeBordo New York.......................................................................... Robert Valentine New York..................................................................James Arthur Waldron New York....................................................... Howard Conklin Wendell, Jr. North Carolina....................................................... Donald Eugene Bennett North Carolina........................................................ Thomas Franklin Brock North Carolina........................................................ Everette Wayne Hough North Carolina.................................................... Thomas Fletcher Sims, Sr. North Carolina..................................................... James Wilson Spence, Sr. North Dakota.......................................................Nicholas Jerome Ruhland Ohio............................................................................. Ralph Edward Bolin Ohio........................................................................ Peter Francis Brown, Jr. Ohio................................................................... Roy Edward Chambers, Sr. Ohio................................................................................... Herman Downs Ohio....................................................................Joseph Peter Gagliardo, Jr. Ohio..................................................................................... Roy Lee Harris Ohio..........................................................................Paul Marshall Hensley Ohio........................................................................... Robert James Kidwell Ohio.............................................................................. David Henry Laake Ohio.....................................................................Kenneth Edward Lambert Ohio............................................................... Anthony Rudolph Matola, Sr. Ohio..................................................................... George Ellis McComesky Ohio...................................................................Michael Lewis McLane, Sr. Ohio............................................................................James Patrick Mogan Ohio.........................................................................Gerald Wayne Roberts Ohio........................................................................Roger Dale Rollings, Sr. Ohio.................................................................. Robert William Sanders, Jr. Ohio............................................................................. William Lee Stewart Ohio....................................................................James Robert Zimmerman Oklahoma................................................................... Jimmie Neal Bullock Oklahoma...............................................................Walter Allen Cheatham Oklahoma...............................................................Charles Martin Harding Oklahoma................................................................... Michael Vaughn Hill Oklahoma................................................................ Kennedy Lee Smith, Jr. Oregon................................................................. Everett Charles Davidson Oregon..................................................................... David William Haskell Oregon................................................................................Kirk LeRoi Lane Oregon...............................................................Christopher James Murphy Oregon............................................................................... John Steven Nix Oregon............................................................ James Edward Thompson, Jr. Oregon....................................................................... Donald Dean Wilson Pennsylvania..................................................... Kenneth Harold Bloom, Sr. Pennsylvania............................................................Joseph Edward Boback Pennsylvania....................................................... Edward Michael Connelly Pennsylvania.............................................................................. Marvin Erb Pennsylvania............................................................. Charles Edward Evans Pennsylvania............................................................Richard Alois Fronauer Pennsylvania.............................................................. George James Garcia Pennsylvania................................................................. David John Goncar Pennsylvania......................................................... Robert Christian Gruber Pennsylvania..................................................................Thomas Jay Guffey
Pennsylvania................................................................James Joseph Henke Pennsylvania...............................................................Daniel Willard Hoch Pennsylvania............................................................ Richard Charles Lange Pennsylvania.......................................................... Douglas William Lowry Pennsylvania.............................................................. Thomas Glenn Miller Pennsylvania..........................................................Kenneth Robert Morgan Pennsylvania.......................................................Richard Walter Paczewski Pennsylvania......................................................... Joseph Anthony Pallante Pennsylvania....................................................... Anthony Joseph Peters, III Pennsylvania...................................................................... Angelo Pumello Pennsylvania...............................................................Robert Francis Riskie Pennsylvania............................................................... John Anthony Santer Pennsylvania.......................................................... George Francis Shookla Pennsylvania................................................................Edward Paul Sweger Pennsylvania.............................................................. John Patrick Tomaino Pennsylvania..................................................................Gary Duane Wolfe Pennsylvania.......................................................... Donald Earnest Zabawa Puerto Rico........................................................................ Miguel Pacheco Rhode Island................................................................ Arthur Joseph Begin Rhode Island...................................................... Russell Adelbert Patton, Jr. Rhode Island.....................................................Thomas Vincent Provencial South Carolina........................................................ Donald Frank Kennedy South Carolina..................................................... Richard Neel Sendler, Sr. South Carolina....................................................Luther Edward Sullivan, Jr. South Dakota................................. Louis Raymond Packard “Flying Hawk” Tennessee....................................................................Charles Edson Crone Tennessee................................................................ Royce Allen Davenport Tennessee.................................................................. John Joseph Donnelly Tennessee.................................................................. Claude Edward Goble Tennessee.................................................................. Lynn Richard Johnson Tennessee................................................................... William Roger Jordan Tennessee.................................................................Weldon Gene Keymon Tennessee............................................................... Larry Eugene Letterman Tennessee............................................................... William Robert Paschall Tennessee.................................................................... Jimmy Ralph Perkins Tennessee........................................................... Fred Hunter Richmond, III Texas............................................................................James Austin Ansley Texas.......................................................................... Robert Anton Blakely Texas............................................................................. Lavoice Ray Bryant Texas...............................................................William Fredrick Castleberry Texas........................................................................ William Clyle Eubanks Texas........................................................................... Philip Edward Gabel Texas.................................................................................Bennie Earl Grun Texas............................................................................Melvin Ray Hopkins Texas............................................................................. Juan Chaires Lopez Texas............................................................................ Steven Cantu Torres Texas......................................................................Marvin William Walther Texas........................................................................Otho Neal Winchester Virginia....................................................................... Henry Wayne Carter Virginia....................................................................Marcellis Eugene Cline Virginia............................................................ Claude Winston Conner, Sr. Virginia..................................................................Ollie Richard Nichols, Jr Virginia..............................................................Clifford Chester Phillips, Jr. Virginia.................................................................. Michael Moore Reddan Virginia................................................................Charles Gordon Vaughan Washington........................................................... Rodney Joseph Bluechel Washington...................................................................... Steven Paul Croft Washington............................................................ Michael Allen Hemphill Washington...............................................................Walter Sherman Jones Washington............................................................ Dennis Robert Thieman West Virginia.......................................................... Carmey Colin Davidson West Virginia..........................................................Michael Vernon Dunlap West Virginia.......................................................Michael Stephen Hamrick West Virginia................................................................ Rodger Lee Thorn, I West Virginia................................................................. John Brown Wilson Wisconsin..................................................................Russell Lee Crossman Wisconsin..................................................................... Kenneth Lee Defoe Wisconsin..................................................................James Arthur Heiman Wisconsin....................................................................Glen LeRoy Johnson Wisconsin......................................................................... John Lynn Kelley Wisconsin.....................................................................Charles Paul Larsen Wisconsin.............................................................. Michael Joseph O’Brien Wisconsin.............................................................. Daniel James Owen, Sr. Wisconsin........................................................... Thomas Andrew Richards Wisconsin................................................................. James Anthony Selner Wisconsin...............................................................Anthony James Slomski Wisconsin............................................................. William Gerald Watland Wisconsin........................................................... Joseph Eugene Bourgouin
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VIETNAM VETER ANS ME MO RIAL FUND
JOIN US ON FATHER’S DAY SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2016 AT 10 : 0 0 A . M . Please join us tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for our annual Father’s Day Rose Remembrance at The Wall. Father’s Day is a time to honor all of our fathers and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) will continue the annual tradition of paying special tribute to fathers. Every year on Father’s Day, volunteers join sons and daughters of veterans and affix long-stemmed roses with messages of love and honor sent from across the country to those whose lives were cut short. Red roses symbolize those killed in action. Yellow roses symbolize those missing in action. White roses with red tips symbolize those who are part of our In Memory program. Family, friends and other visitors are invited to take part in the laying of roses surrounding the memorial, a breathtaking sight that demonstrates both the gratitude and the sacrifices of families impacted by foreign conflict.
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ABOUT THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) is the nonprofit organization that founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington, D.C. in 1982. VVMF’s mission is to honor and preserve the legacy of service in America and educate all generations about the impact of the Vietnam War and era. We honor the service of all, preserve the memory of those who died during the war and since returning home, and educate all generations about the lasting impact of the war. Today’s In Memory Ceremony and other VVMF ceremonies, programs, and education efforts are made possible by donations from our generous supporters. VVMF’s work includes:
CARE AND PRESERVATION OF THE MEMORIAL SITE
VVMF partners with the National Park Service (NPS) to care for The Wall, the Three Servicemen Statue, the flapole, and the In Memory plaque.
THE WALL THAT HEALS
The Wall That Heals mobile exhibit features a half-scale replica of The Wall in Washington, D.C. along with a mobile Education Center.
CEREMONIES AT THE WALL
Each year, VVMF holds several ceremonies at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to help carry out its mission to honor those who have served and sacrificed for our country.
ITEMS LEFT AT THE WALL
Since The Wall was dedicated in 1982, more than 400,000 items have been left by visitors as remembrances and tributes. NPS collects and preserves these objects as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection, with curatorial support from VVMF.
IN MEMORY
VVMF’s In Memory program honors Vietnam veterans whose lives were cut short as a result of their service in Vietnam, but are not eligible for inscription on The Wall under Department of Defense guidelines.
EDUCATION
VVMF develops and distributes comprehensive and balanced education materials that help students learn about the last impact of the Vietnam War and era. For more information on VVMF’s work or to make a donation in support of these programs, please go to: www.vvmf.org or call 202-393-0090.
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About the In Memory Program The In Memory program honors Vietnam veterans whose lives were cut short as a result of their service in Vietnam, but are not eligible for inscription on The Wall under Department of Defense guidelines. In Memory is a way that all Vietnam veterans can be honored on the National Mall. The plaque that honors these veterans was dedicated as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 2004. It reads: In Memory of the men and women who served in the Vietnam War and later died as a result of their service. We honor and remember their sacrifice. The In Memory ceremony is held annually on the National Mall. Family members and friends of current honorees — as well as past honorees — are invited to say their loved one’s name in a touching ceremony on the East Knoll of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The In Memory program began in 1999 and has since honored more than 2,500 veterans. The In Memory Honor Roll has a remembrance page for each veteran and can be seen online at www.vvmf.org/honor-roll. If you have a family member or friend whose death was related to their service in the Vietnam War and would like to have that person considered for inclusion in the In Memory Honor Roll, please contact VVMF at 202-393-0090 or visit our website to download the application at: www.vvmf.org/inmemory.
Our Special Thanks Special thanks go out to the volunteers of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, who have dedicated thousands of hours to the Memorial over the years. VVMF is proud to have their help and dedication! A special thanks in particular to VVMF volunteer, Tamora Papas, for her support of the In Memory program. A big thanks to the families and friends of the In Memory Honorees for journeying to Washington, DC, to take part in this special day.
Photos, as well as additional Tribute copies, will be available on our website after the event at: www.vvmf.org/event-photos Please visit the VVMF Store at www.vvmf.org/store to see In Memory items available for purchase. To learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and its programs: www.vvmf.org Stay connected with VVMF on: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund www.twitter.com/VVMF VNVeteransMemorial 1235 South Clark Street, Suite 910 | Arlington, VA 22202 Tel (202) 393-0090 Fax (202) 330-0960 E-mail vvmf@vvmf.org www.vvmf.org