KENNETH L MCCARTY
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HONORED ON PANEL 11W, LINE 1 OF THE WALL

KENNETH LEON MCCARTY

WALL NAME

KENNETH L MCCARTY

PANEL / LINE

11W/1

DATE OF BIRTH

03/12/1951

CASUALTY PROVINCE

THUA THIEN

DATE OF CASUALTY

04/13/1970

HOME OF RECORD

HANFORD

COUNTY OF RECORD

Kings County

STATE

CA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

SP4

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR KENNETH LEON MCCARTY
POSTED ON 7.23.2017

Ground Casualty

On April 13, 1970, A Battery on FSB Bastogne in Thua Thien Province, RVN, received two enemy mortar rounds which impacted in one of the gun pits. Two men from Service Battery, SP4 David A. Barbarino and SP5 Larry E. Francis, and three men from A Battery, SP4 Troy V. Canady, SP4 Clifford J. Earnhardt, and SP4 Kenneth L. McCarty, were killed. Five personnel in the area were wounded. There was no damage to equipment. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and 1stbn83rdartyvietnam.com]
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POSTED ON 4.13.2015
POSTED BY: A Grateful Vietnam Vet

Thank You

Thank you Spec. 4 McCarty for your leadership and courage.
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POSTED ON 4.5.2014
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SP4 Kenneth Leon McCarty, 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, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 11.19.2012
POSTED BY: Robert Sage

We Remember

Kenneth is buried at Hanford Cemetery, Hanford, CA. BSM ARCOM PH

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POSTED ON 2.6.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson

Never Forgotten

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers

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