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Khe Sanh Veterans Inc.
2009 Annual Reunion

Denver CO

July 19
th - 26th 2009


2009 Denver Reunion Attendee Roster
Now online

"Doc" Jerry D. Griffin
Bravo  Battery 1/13 HM
10/17/1938 - 6/22/2009

 

"Doc" Jerry D. Griffin B Btry 1/13 passed away yesterday, June 22 2009, 1:30 pm, while in  the hospital. Doc was 70 years young.

Back in January Doc had by pass surgery, he returned to the hospital after complaining of not feeling well.

"Doc" Griffin served in the Navy as a Hospital Corpsman for 20 years and did two tours in Vietnam, doing what he did best, take care of his Marines.

Jerry D. Griffin
10/17/1938 - 6/22/2009
Semper Fi Doc

 

 

Funeral arrangements will be posted
here when they become available
Funeral Home Guest book

In The News

Remains of
PFC Jose Ramon Sanchez Return Home

PFC Jose Ramon Sanchez
H&S 1/4, 81mm Mortars
KIA June 06, 1968
 
By Larry Mcshane
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, March 22nd 2009, 4:00 AM
 

As the days became years that faded into history, as Jose Sanchez became a sad, distant memory, a 5-by-7-inch index card bore witness to his short life.

The Brooklyn teen's name was typed neatly across the Marine Corps Casualty Card, with the date and place of his last day alive: June 6, 1968. Quang Tri Province. Vietnam.

The details were sparse; the words terse: "The helicopter he was aboard received small arms fire. After crashing, the helicopter rolled down the side of a mountain and burned.

 

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Col. Don Myers.

By Col. Don Myers
H 2/3
A mind Of My Own
Published: March 6, 2009
Tampa Tribune, Hernando Today

I don't recall who first uttered the words for the title of this article, but they are so apropos to the challenges we face today. There are two organizations in this world that I truly love — the United States of America and the United States Marine Corps. Each of those organizations faced countless challenges to their very existence throughout the years.

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Phillip D. Mineer: Case Closed In Camp Fire Death

Phillip D. Mineer
1/13 Bravo Battery

An investigation has concluded in the death of a Vietnam veteran whose burned body was discovered last summer at a Surry County campsite, with authorities not knowing exactly how he died.

“Undetermined is the cause of death,” Surry Emergency Services Director John Shelton said Wednesday of just-released results from the state medical examiner’s office regarding the case of Phillip D. Mineer, 61, of Fort Myers, Fla.

 

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Robert Arrotta and Glenn Prentice

Vietnam vets share Khe Sanh experiences with air station

Battle of Khe Sanh veterans Robert Arrotta and Glenn Prentice spoke to station retired Marines at the Sonoran Pueblo Friday, sharing their combat experience and providing a glimpse of the Corps' past.

Arrotta and Prentice focused on the air to ground communication employment of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force on Hill 881, one of several strategically important hills surrounding Khe Sanh in the western Quang Tri Province.

When Arrotta's forward air controller was wounded and evacuated, he took control and directed more than 300 close air support missions, medical evacuations and resupply missions.

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Education Lobbyist, Bob Lee Brown 11th Engineers
 Remembers Khe Sanh

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Upon returning from a 13-month tour in Vietnam, Bob Brown and his fellow comrades were greeted by protestors pelting their bus with eggs and calling them "baby killers."

Brown, a 19-year-old at the time from Campbells Creek, never got upset. He had just endured the nightmare of war, including the Battle of Khe Sanh, which resulted in 572 American deaths and up to 15,000 North Vietnamese casualties.

Now he was on a bus in El Toro, Calif., for this not-so-gracious homecoming.

"I remember not getting mad," said Brown, a longtime education lobbyist in Charleston. "I thought, 'Well this is America. And at least in theory, that's what we were supposed to be fighting for - so people could be free to do and feel and say what they wanted.

"Had that occurred before I went over, I'd have been looking for a fight."

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Maj. William J. O'Connor
Charlie Btry. 1/13

South Coast Today:

DARTMOUTH — William J. O'Connor, 68, of Dartmouth, died Friday, January 30, 2009 after a courageous battle with cancer. He is survived by his loving wife of 43 years, Marcella (Pease) O'Connor, his sons Kevin J. O'Connor of Kissimmee, FL, and Matthew J. O'Connor of New Bedford; his sisters, Joan Reicherter and her husband Charles of Tinton Falls, NJ, and Dorothy Mullen and her husband Edward of Wading River, NY; along with many nieces and nephews.

Born in the Bronx, NY, the son of the late Joseph V. and Katherine (Walpole) O'Connor, he graduated from St. John's University with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree. He also pursued graduate studies at George Washington University.

Mr. O'Connor worked for many years in the metallurgical industry. He and his family moved to Dartmouth in 1982 while he was employed at Teledyne Rodney Metals. For the past 10 years prior to his retirement in 2007, he was employed as a loan officer at Compass Bank and Sovereign Bank, and also a senior loan officer at First Horizon Home Loans.

William joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1961 as a 2nd Lieutenant, serving in Vietnam as an Aerial Observer with the 12th Marines in Northern I Corps, and as the Commanding Officer of Charlie Battery, 1st Battalion 13th Marines during the historic siege of Khe Sanh. He left active duty in 1969 and was honorably discharged as a U.S. Marine Corps Major.

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Khe Sanh Veterans Inc.
Scholarship Fund
2009

The Khe Sanh Veterans Inc. Scholarship Fund is available to all Children and Grandchildren of members in good standing of the Khe Sanh Veterans Inc.

Click here for details and scholarship application forms

Lt Gen Victor H. “Brute” Krulak dies at 95

Jan 7, 1913 - Dec 30, 2008
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In The News

Stolen Memorial Plaque Honoring
Lang Vei MIA,
SFC. James L. Moreland

Replaced.

Army Medic
SFC James L. Moreland
MIA
07- feb-68

 

 


 

NEW WEB SITE ADDITIONS

The membership and major units at Khe Sanh rosters have just been added.

The Membership roster lists members name, unit and home state. Roster has 3243 entries, more will be added soon.

The Units at Khe Sanh roster lists major units  that were at Khe Sanh from Jan to Apr '68. Roster has about 7820 entries at this time, soon to be updated with another 1000 entries

All units that were at Khe Sanh from 1962 to 1970 will be added in the near future.

Rosters can be searched by Last Name, Unit, Branch, Casualty and Date of Casualty.

The Khe Sanh Veterans News Blog. All the current and historical news articles related to the Khe Sanh experience will be posted here on a regular basis.

 

     

 

     

 

 

     

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