James Wallace Rudd
Specialist Four
E CO, 5TH BN, 46TH INFANTRY, 198TH INFANTRY BDE, AMERICAL DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Halifax, Virginia
July 28, 1947 to April 21, 1968
JAMES W RUDD is on the Wall at Panel 51E, Line 25

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03 June 2003

James was a close friend, we trained together in Fort Hood Texas and went to Nam, with our units, at the same time. We were in different companies, so I wasn't nearby when he died.

To his family and friends, he was a great man, who always had a smile on his face, no matter how bad it got. His friendship with me spanned the racism which was rampart in the 60's, Black or White didn't matter to him or me.

He was one of the first, of many, of our unit that died over there and his death probably impacted me more than any of the others. To this day, whenever I travel to Washington DC, I visit him at the Wall and break down and cry for him.

Sgt Patrick C. Ryan
Co C 5/46INF 198 LIB
Americal Division
pcryan@us.ibm.com


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