4/3/69 - 4/5/69 Dco 1/506 KIA

[Bill Farnie]

The following men were KIA in April 1969 during operations in the Ruong Ruong Valley, Thua Thien Province, RVN

4/3/69

Loundon Conaway
Robert T. Johnson
SFC D J Kelsey

4/4/69

Michael Flood (medic with Bravo Company who somehow ended up with us)

4/5/69

Chuck M. Stadel
Jonathan Collins III
Douglas Vande-Vegte
Lt. Lawrence Dudley Jr.

Hand Salute

[DMZ-LT]

Welcome Home Homie. Salute to your friends and fellow soldiers..... and you !

[Bill Farnie]

Just a bump for today, the last day of the fight.

They built a firebase on the hill we took and we named it FSB Kelsey in honor of SFC D J Kelsey but the 101st named it something else. For nearly 40 years I could not, for the life of me, remember what it was until a couple of weeks ago four of us were talking on line and the other three all said it was FSB Blaze. We were in and out of Blaze a lot and you would think that I wouldn't easily forget what it was named .. funny how I blocked that out.

[DMZ-LT]

What I said last year Homie. We have all blocked things out I think. As long as we remember they are not forgotten.