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Our Community in Vietnam (home)

February 1, 2020

Jessie Austin

"I thank God every day that I made it back home from Vietnam. I was there in 1967, ’68 and ’69 and to me it is a miracle that I am here living now. I was in the infantry

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Earl Bailey - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Earl Bailey

“I was married in December and drafted in February in 1969. My whole world changed. “I was a little kid from the farm who was forced to go. I was so afraid that I

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Rudy Baker - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

Rudy Baker

Col. Rudy Baker, a Selma High graduate, served two 12-month tours in Vietnam and had served in Korea before that. He went to Vietnam for the first time in 1965 and was a

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Danny Batten - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Danny Batten

“I was in Vietnam in 1970 and 1971. I spent most of my time in the Quang Ngai Province near a little village called Moduc. I carried an experimental grenade launcher

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Rick Brown - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Rick Brown

“We had landed in a small village to drop off and wait for a military officer. The kids were curious, and I encouraged them to come out. I enjoyed seeing them and did my

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Freddy Buffaloe - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Freddy Buffaloe

“After arriving in Vietnam, a Captain approached me and said I was qualified to be a pilot and could be trained in in two weeks to fly a helicopter.” “I told him I was

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Jimmy Bumgarner - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Jimmy Bumgarner

Jimmy Bumgarner graduated from Garner High in 1962 and was drafted into the U.S. Army. He was stationed in Vietnam from 1967 through 1968. He was with the 52nd artillery

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Spence Cardwell - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Spence Cardwell

“I have no explanation for what happened to me in Vietnam, except for divine intervention. “I was working with indigenous people, none of whom could speak English. …

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Chad Chandler - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Chad Chandler

“I volunteered for the US Navy in June,1968 and served six years until June, 1974. After basic training and specialized training as a sonar technician, I was assigned to

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Dewey Chrisco - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Dewey Chrisco

Corporal Dewey (Buddy) Chrisco was in Vietnam during the TET Offensive. The Greensboro native was diagnosed with tongue cancer in July 2018 and died a year later. He was

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Bill Cramer Jr. - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Bill Cramer Jr.

“One evening while our patrol was scouting an area, we could hear something in the underbrush. We carefully eased up to see if the Viet Cong was hiding. To our surprise,

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William Crumpler - Vietnam Service - United States Army

February 1, 2020

William Crumpler

This picture was taken after Crumpler left the hospital, possibly at Fort Gordon. He was wounded in the knee in Vietnam and had to be evacuated to the states. The wound

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February 1, 2020

Tom Daniel

“I had guard duty in the Red Zone and my orders were to kill anything that came in. It was at the start of Tet and we were extra diligent. “Around 6:30, I saw a woman

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Leon Davis - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Leon Davis

Leon Douglas Davis grew up on Sunnybrook Road and graduated from Garner High in 1967. He was wounded while in Vietnam and had back pain from a piece of shrapnel that

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Thomas Davis - Vietnam Service - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Thomas Davis

Killed In Action - 13 January 1969 in Quang Ngai, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 25W, Row 103 Thomas Warren Davis was with the 92nd Artillery

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Robert Dawson - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Robert Dawson

Killed In Action - 18 June, 1970 in Quang Tin, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 9W, Row 63 Robert Clark Dawson was a graduate of South Johnston High

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Johnny Deans - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Johnny Deans

“I left school in the seventh grade because I had a speech impediment, but that was no impediment in getting in the Army. I finished high school while I was in the

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Bob Deese - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Bob Deese

“It’s been over 50 years and I am still fighting the Vietnam War. I was squad leader of a diverse group of younger men. For over a year we trained together playing war

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Lucien Demers - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Lucien Demers

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Richard Embrey - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Richard Embrey

“I almost got to meet John Wayne when he came to Vietnam before filming “The Green Berets.” He was scheduled to come to our Green Beret camp … but they, whoever they

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Phil Fleming - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Phil Fleming

Killed In Action - March 24, 1969, Kon Tum Province His name can be found on the wall on Panel 28W, Row 25 Phil Fleming was a member of the 101st Airborne Division.

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Samuel Grimes - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

Samuel Grimes

Samuel Grimes was an infantryman and was on a fire support mortar squad in Vietnam in November 1968 through November 1969. He is in poor health now and is in the advanced

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Glen Gullie - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Glen Gullie

“I graduated from Garner High in June of 1966 and was drafted into the U.S. Army the following October. I spent my first year at Fort Riley, Kansas, which was like a

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Charles "Ed" Hicks - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Charles “Ed” Hicks

Ed Hicks was drafted soon after graduating from Garner High School. He went to Vietnam soon after basic training and was wounded in the hand. He received a Purple Heart.

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February 1, 2020

Chalmers Hinnant, Jr.

Chalmers Hinnant, Jr., was a 1965 graduate of Garner Consolidated High School and landed in Vietnam in 1968. He soon began to display symptoms of post trauma stress and

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Burlon Honeycutt - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Burlon Honeycutt

Killed In Action - 14 March 1967 in Gia Dinh, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 16E, Row 79 SP4 Burlon T. Honeycutt was from Clayton and enlisted in

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David Hunter - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

David Hunter

David Hunter, a native of Clemson, S.C., was in Vietnam when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He saw the message when it came in and carried it to the

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Doug Jackson - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Doug Jackson

“I was in Vietnam from 1968 through 1970 and received the Army Commendation Medal. It was a life-changing experience serving in Vietnam for a year.”

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Chris Jennings - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Chris Jennings

SP5 Chris Jennings served in Vietnam from October 1967 into 1969. He was stationed in Natrang and was chief of civilian pay. He paid 29 Vietnamese people every two weeks.

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Ed Ketron - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Ed Ketron

“My brother and I both served in Vietnam. My brother was drafted in 1964. Most of his fellow soldiers voted for LBJ because he promised to keep us out of war. HIs unit

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Johnny Lassiter - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

Johnny Lassiter

Johnny Lassiter was a Garner High graduate who grew up in the Panther Branch community. He played for the Garner Rams high school football team and loved to hunt and

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Glen Marcom - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Glen Marcom

“The military police had a vast assignment of duties in Vietnam. We escorted supply convoys to get badly needed supplies to the guys in the forward base camps and as an

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February 1, 2020

Frederick Martin

Killed Feb. 29, 1968 in Gia Dinh. His name is found on on Panel 42E, Line 7 of The Wall. PFC Frederick L. Martin was a state high school long jump at the all-Black

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February 1, 2020

Marshall Matthews

“I was on guard duty in Pleiku one night when it was so dark, I couldn’t see my hands in front of my face. The only things I could see well were the tracer bullets in the

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February 1, 2020

Arthur McAllister

“I was trained as a helicopter mechanic, but when I got to Vietnam they needed people to be gunners because so many helicopters were being shot down. It was 100 degrees

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Henry McArthur - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Henry McArthur

Killed In Action - 14 March 1969 in Quang Ngai, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 24W, Row 112 U.S. Army Corporal Henry Lee McArthur lived in

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Larry McLaughlin - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Larry McLaughlin

Killed In Action - 4 January 1968 in Hua Nghia, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 33E, Row 37 Larry McLaughlin was raised near Carolina Pines Baptist

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Dwane Mitchiner - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Dwane Mitchiner

“I entered the Army in 1969 and served on active duty for 22 years, retiring in 1990. I volunteered for Vietnam near the end of the war after most American combat units

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Mel Perry - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Mel Perry

“I grew up in Vietnam. OCS (Officer Candidate School) and Vietnam took a young man whose father had a first-grade education and whose mother was mentally ill and who

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Robert T. Quillen - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

Robert T. Quillen

“I arrived in Vietnam in July 1969 and I was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division located at Phuoc Vinh located north of Saigon. Upon arrival at my assigned unit, 11th

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Richard Ripley - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Richard Ripley

“On 19 August 1969, I was flying in my helicopter on a command and control mission over a rifle company that was engaged under heavy fire I in the dense jungle in

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Alex Skolny - Vietnam Service - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Alex Skolny

Specialist 4th Class Alex Skolny (second solider from the left) somewhere in the jungle of Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam on a reconnaissance mission around July

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Sammy Stephenson - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Sammy Stephenson

1SGT Sammy B. Stephenson was a Clayton High graduate and served two tours in Vietnam during 1966 through 1968. He was a member of the special forces. He was exposed often

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Allen Stroud - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Sheffield Stroud

Killed in Action - 17 June 1968 in Lam Dong, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 56W, Row 15 Sheffield Stroud was a Clayton Cooper High graduate, but

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Stephen Thomas - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Stephen Thomas

Killed In Action - November 22, 1969 in Quang Ngai, Vietnam His name can be found on The Wall on Panel 30E, Row 67 Stephen Thomas, who lived near the intersection of

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SSG Dana Wall - Vietnam Service - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Dana Wall

“I didn’t have any misgivings about going to Vietnam even though my brother Donald had been killed there. I knew it was a place where you always had to be alert and not

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Donald Wall - Vietnam Service -United States Army

February 1, 2020

Donald Wall

Killed In Action - 6 April, 1968, Quang Tri, Vietnam His name can be found on The Wall on Panel 48E, Row 36. Donald Lee Wall was a career soldier in the U.S. Army who

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Tony Warren - Vietnam Service - Army

February 1, 2020

Tony Warren

“I was a medic who was attached to the 1/16th infantry rangers. We were assigned many search and destroy and road clearing missions. We were on patrol on one of these

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Vincent Webb - United States Army

February 1, 2020

Vincent Webb

Vince Webb helped set up refueling stations for helicopters at FSB Suoi Da and FSB Katum before being transferred to Dau Tieng. He hauled fuel between Dau Tieng and Long

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Jesse West - Army

February 1, 2020

Jesse West

Killed In Action - 11 March 1970 in Lam Dong, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 12W, Row 23 U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Jesse L. West was from

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Floyd Wiggins - Army

February 1, 2020

Floyd Wiggins

“Very few people know the sacrifices that were made by our men and women in Vietnam.”

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Clarence Williams - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

Clarence Williams

“It sounds strange, but when I think of Vietnam, I think of how beautiful the country is. I was in the 82nd, but my primary job was to work with the South Vietnamese

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Johnny Williams - Vietnam Service - Army

February 1, 2020

Johnny Williams

Missing in Action - 9 January 1968 in Hiep Duc Valley, Vietnam His name can be found on the wall on Panel 34E, Row 12. Johnny Williams was a US Army Private First

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Ronnie Williams - Vietnam Service - Army

February 1, 2020

Ronnie Williams

“I was drafted in February of 1968 and arrived in Vietnam in April. I was a mechanic and we worked on just about anything, especially planes. We were shelled

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Paul Houston Woods - U.S. Army

February 1, 2020

Paul Woods

Paul Houston Woods joined the U.S. Army right out of Whiteville High School and served 20 years. He was in Korea and Vietnam. He was awarded many medals and honors

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