JACK E DEETER
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HONORED ON PANEL 16W, LINE 120 OF THE WALL

JACK EARL DEETER

WALL NAME

JACK E DEETER

PANEL / LINE

16W/120

DATE OF BIRTH

09/11/1948

CASUALTY PROVINCE

QUANG DUC

DATE OF CASUALTY

11/24/1969

HOME OF RECORD

MEADVILLE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Crawford County

STATE

PA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JACK EARL DEETER
POSTED ON 5.27.2015
POSTED BY: Cheryl Montero

Uncle Jack

Wow thank you so much Bob Blackwell , I never knew my uncle as he passed nearly 7 months before i was born. What you wrote makes me get to know him somewhat. I will print this out and send to my mother in meadville
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POSTED ON 1.5.2015
POSTED BY: Bob Blackwell

Remembering Jack

Hi, I am Jack Deeter. I left my home in Pennsylvania to be assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 35th Infantry, 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division in the central highlands area of Vietnam. My buddies would call me a happy-go-lucky kind of guy who got in his share of joking. They would say I was steadfast and willing to help anyone. Like my buddies, I liked to talk about cars, women, “real world” food, and other things not available in the jungle. I was just like most of the others, just a regular kind of guy that got put into a bad situation just like the others.

None of us wanted to be here but thought it our National obligation to serve our country. I left home in Pennsylvania for a journey that would tragically end on 24 November, 1969. It was a hot steamy day in Vietnam, just like so many others, but today we were getting resupplied out in the jungle while on a “search and destroy” mission. That meant mail from home, new stock of C-rations, water, ammo and whatever else we needed. The chopper came in with the supplies and they were unloaded and we went about distributing the new supplies and mail. When we got all the water we needed from the water blivot, the chopper was coming to pick it up. Chuck (Ronald) Olson and I were sent to the clearing to load the blivot on the chopper while my buddies were busy with the resupply. However, we didn’t know the VC had moved in for an ambush (probably saw the resupply chopper to locate our position). Chuck and I triggered the ambush and paid the ultimate sacrifice! Had we not done so, it could have ended in tragedy for our buddies, but we had removed the element of surprise. Two young American lives lost that day, but the only good thing is that by giving our lives, we quite possibly saved others.

Those that have not served in combat cannot understand the very close brotherhood that results from that experience, but you get as much or more concerned for your buddies as yourself. Our deaths came too quickly for our buddies to help, but at least we helped protect them.

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POSTED ON 11.4.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SP4 Jack Earl Deeter, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 6.27.2011

Never Forgotten

Rest in peace with the warriors.
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POSTED ON 11.8.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Jack is buried at Denny Memorial Cemetery in Meadville, PA. BSM PH
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