Our War Dead

These are the men of 60th Company, Infantry Officer’s Candidate School, at Fort Benning, Georgia, a class dubbed 504-68, who were killed in Vietnam. We hundred and ten graduates (all but one of whom also served in Vietnam) remember them on Memorial Day: 
 
One graduate:   1LT Jacob Lee Kinser
 
Two tactical officers: CPT Reese Michael Patrick
                             1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender
 
Four drop-outs: CPL Sherry Joe Hadley    
                       SP4 Reese Currenti Elia, Jr.
                       CPL Robert Chase
                       SP4 Jeffrey Sanders Tigner

Not that we don’t remember and appreciate the dead of both older and more recent American wars and campaigns. We just tend to think of our own first.

Soldier, rest, thy warfare o’er, 
Dream of fighting fields no more.
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking,   
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.

                       –Sir Walter Scott

0 responses to “Our War Dead

  1. Dear Texas Scribbler: Thanks for doing this. SP4 Reese Elia was my Junior High School Social Studies teacher. Many years ago. The contribution of his life in the classroom and the battlefield will never be forgotten.
    Best to you from Dallas.
    Kent
    ExpatFromHell

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley

    Thanks for the remembrance for Reese, Kent. I linked his name to your post. I didn’t know him, but others in the class did and some of them will visit today and see the link and go read about him.