From His Lieutenant
Posted for: RONALD JOSEPH BONERT:
I was the LRRP platoon leader for Ron and Dan Harmon. They were a package. Ron from Chicago .. Danny from Alaska. Ron was a city kid and Danny an Alaskan native American. From the formation of our LRRP unit (Nov 66) until they were KIA ... our unit had never lost a man. I had left the unit before they were KIA ... and when I heard the news I cried. Ron lived for 12 days after being wounded. I wrote to his relatives in Chicago .. but lost touch. I would hope they could re-contact me. I gave several formal speeches upon returning home. In each of them, Ron and Danny were at the heart of the theme. Mike Lapolla
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Thursday, July 27, 2000
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