Joe Lewis Rivera

Corporal
B CO, 3RD BN, 8TH INFANTRY, 4 INF DIV
Army of the United States
01 December 1948 - 25 February 1970
Kermit, Texas
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4 INF DIV 8TH INF RGT
Combat Infantry

Bronze Star, Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for Joe Lewis Rivera

15 June 2005

Joe Lewis "Corky" Rivera grew up in Kermit, Texas. He was active in sports, played football, basketball and excelled in baseball. He enlisted in the Army in May 1969 and began his tour in Vietnam as an infantryman on November 25, 1969 and was killed three months later. He was buried with full military honors in his hometown of Kermit, Texas. He is remembered on the Permian Basin Vietnam Veterans' Memorial located in Midland, Texas.

From a PBVVM representative,
Billy M. Brown
bmbrown@grandecom.net





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