Drafted into the U.S. Army and sent to Vietnam in 1968, Corporal Wesley Roy Potter was killed in action at just 20 years old. His story honors the sacrifice of America’s infantrymen and the families who bore the cost of war.
Killed aboard a covert Air America flight in 1969, Sgt. Stephen F. Robar’s mission was never acknowledged — but his sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Drafted from Michigan and sent deep into enemy territory, Specialist Four Reynaldo Arenas served as a combat engineer with a Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol. He was killed by hostile small arms fire in Binh Duong Province on December 31, 1968, just 20.
At Suối Tre in March 1967, American artillery and infantry stopped a major enemy offensive. One of the fallen was SP4 Herman E. Anders Jr., remembered today on his birthday.
A Detroit-born infantry NCO with the 1st Cavalry Division, Staff Sergeant Terrence L. Harris served in Vietnam until his death on December 24, 1970. His story reflects the constant danger and quiet sacrifices of war.
In December 1972, during Operation Linebacker II, Major Thomas Waring Bennett, Jr., a decorated B-52 bomber pilot, flew into the most dangerous airspace of the Vietnam War and did not return, giving his life in the war’s final days.
