RICHARD R ARSENAULT
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HONORED ON PANEL 1W, LINE 33 OF THE WALL

RICHARD ROLAND ARSENAULT

WALL NAME

RICHARD R ARSENAULT

PANEL / LINE

1W/33

DATE OF BIRTH

10/06/1943

CASUALTY PROVINCE

HUA NGHIA

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/26/1972

HOME OF RECORD

SOUTHBRIDGE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Worcester County

STATE

MA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SSGT

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Contact Details

REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR RICHARD ROLAND ARSENAULT
POSTED ON 2.26.2018
POSTED BY: JIm Reece

Burial Information for this Vietnam Veteran.

Ssgt Richard Roland (Sonny) Arsenault is buried at Mount Zion Cemetery Route 12 Webster, Ma. 01570
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POSTED ON 10.6.2017
POSTED BY: Dennis Wriston

I'm proud of our Vietnam Veterans

Staff Sergeant Richard Roland Arsenault, Served with Advisory Team 43, Headquarters, Military Assistance Command Vietnam Advisors, Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV).
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POSTED ON 10.2.2016
POSTED BY: Lucy Conte Micik

Remembered

DEAR STAFF SERGEANT ARSENAULT,
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS AN ARMY GRUNT. REST IN PEACE.
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POSTED ON 7.13.2016

Final Mission of SSGT Richard R. Arsenault

On May 26, 1972, a reconnaissance-in-force along Route 7 in Hau Nhia Province was conducted by Duc Hue militia forces which sought to determine the extent of a North Vietnamese presence remaining in villages that they had recently invaded from their sanctuary in nearby Cambodia. The recon force was supported by several armored personnel carriers of the ARVN 25th Division. Two MACV U.S. advisors from Advisory Team 43 accompanied the operation, CAPT Ed Schwabe and SSGT Richard R. Arsenault. Moving east along Route 7, the ARVN unit met light resistance from North Vietnamese regulars in an enemy bunker. Coming from the west, the column that Schwabe and Arsenault moved with encountered a well-laid ambush. While they passed a graveyard, the North Vietnamese attacked with a B-41 rocket. Arsenault, who was carrying a radio, was killed instantly by the blast. The explosion knocked CAPT Schwabe off his feet and peppered him with shrapnel. North Vietnamese soldiers then poured heavy fire on the stunned militia troops, who took cover behind sandstone grave markers. Several government soldiers died as the dazed and wounded CAPT Schwabe struggled to gain the meager cover offered by the cemetery. The American officer was saved only because a brave Vietnamese interpreter dragged his boss to safety. [Taken from “Silence Was a Weapon: The Vietnam War in the Villages” by Stuart A. Herrington, Presidio Press, 1982]
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POSTED ON 2.17.2016

Still

Although it has been 44 yrs since you have been gone, sometimes it seems like yesterday. I still hear your voice and see your smile. I (your loving wife) will always love you my Sonny boy.
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