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, and whom we 110 graduates (all but one of whom also served in Vietnam) remember on Memorial Day:
One graduate: 1LT Jacob Lee Kinser
Two tactical officers: CPT Reese Michael Patrick
1LT Daniel Lynn Neiswender
Two drop-outs: CPL Sherry Joe Hadley
SP4 Reese Currenti Elia, Jr.
UPDATE: Two more drop-outs, inadvertently left out, but since confirmed:
CPL Robert Chase
SP4 Jeffrey Sanders Tigner
















May they all rest in peace as well as all the others that have gone to the great reward even though they survived Nam.
May they all rest in peace as well as all the others that have gone to the great reward even though they survived Nam.
Of the latter, I think of the one who was hit by a train, the one who was drowned at sea, and the one who died of AIDS.
Of the latter, I think of the one who was hit by a train, the one who was drowned at sea, and the one who died of AIDS.