23 Jun 2007 To our friend and classmate - Charlie Becker. He was a nice, fun guy who drove a hot orange car! All who knew you here in Minooka and Channahon will always miss you and the life you never got to live. From a friend. cldrtd@aol.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall On 14 Sep 1969 the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry lost nine men in Binh Duong Province - one to enemy fire and eight to the accidental detonation of a US Claymore mine. The eight who died in the accident were SSG Joseph V. Mathias, Moline, IL, HQ Company SGT Daniel P. Ratledge, Mineral, CA, B Company SP4 Leonard L. Potts, St Louis, MO, B Company SP4 Jeffrey J. Johns, Anoka, MN, E Company SP4 Tony E. Scoggins, Graham, NC, E Company PFC Charles W. Becker, Minooka, IL, A Company PFC Paul W. Murphy, Atlanta, GA, D Company PFC Walter E. Heyer, Warren, MI, E Company The ninth man killed that day was SP4 Gary K. Stanfield of Chanute, Kansas; he was killed by an enemy grenade.

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