Gravesite Visit #55 – Private First Class Garry Frank Lawrence – Woodstock, Alabama
Gravesite Visit – Bibbville Baptist Church Cemetery On July 10th, 2024, my family (me, my wife Garnett and three of our children) left our hotel in Gadsden, Alabama and headed south on Interstate 59, continuing a journey from our home in Morgantown, West Virginia to Lafayette, Louisiana that we had started the day prior. Just […]
Donald Sperl – May 8, 1968
On May 8, 1968, Corporal Donald Sperl, from Juneau, Alaska, was killed in action in Kontum Province, Republic of South Vietnam. The youngest of four children, he was single and 21 years old when he died. Described as having a magnetic personality, Donald was an accomplished basketball player and active in the local theater in […]
Gravesite Visit #41 – Private First Class Don R. Klein – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ft Snelling National Cemetery After leaving the gravesite of SP4 Robert Larson in Section H, I headed northwest towards Section J, home to over two thousand more American veterans. Specifically, I’d be looking for the headstone of PFC Don Robert Klein, who served in Charlie Company, 3/12 Infantry. He was killed in action in northern […]
Gravesite Visit #39 – Specialist Fourth Class John Forman Lobsinger – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 17, 2022 In the fall of 2022, my employer gave me the opportunity to travel to Minneapolis-St. Paul for a planning session. After looking at the proposed schedule, I realized I could easily fit in a visit to a few gravesite visits located in and around the area. I compiled a list of […]
History Blog Post #4 – A probe on an NDP – December 1st thru December 7th, 1966
As the tropical winter months of 1966 continued, the Braves soon found out that enemy grenades could be just as deadly as friendly ones. On December 1st, in the northwest corner of Phu Yen Province, Charlie Company established a night defensive position (NDP) near Hill 268. A group of dwellings and rice fields roughly a […]
History Blog Post #3 – Arrival to Vietnam – Tuy Hoa – September thru November 1966
ARRIVAL – TUY HOA – A SEASON OF FIRSTS As the Gordon pulled into port in Nha Trang on Wednesday, October 5th, the men aboard began to get their first glimpse of the lush green landscape that would be their battleground. Quickly moved off the ship, they experienced their first convoy of the war, and […]