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
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
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 