24 Aug 2004 "So much the better, for we shall fight them in the shade." - Leonidas, Spartan King - - Battle of Thermopylae, 480BC - From his brother, Ron Steidler nortac7@comcast.net

 

21 Sep 2004 We were once 19, Johnson Steidler will always be 19. "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori" - Horace - From his brother Ron's friend and fellow soldier, PFC Frank Dunn HQ Co, 2nd Bn, 69th Infantry, 42nd Infantry Division attached to Alpha Co, 3rd Bn, 2nd Brigade, Fort Dix, NJ commchsaa@aol.com

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall On 22/23 June 1967, three platoons of A Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, were effectively wiped out in a meeting engagement with a battalion of North Vietnamese Army regulars. Seventy-four men from A Company died, 43 of them previously wounded men who were executed by close-range gunshots to the head during the night of 22/23 June. PFC Johnson Steidler was one of the men who died in the fighting which became known as the Battle of the Slopes

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