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HONORED ON PANEL 30E, LINE 81 OF THE WALL
HECTOR LOPEZ RUIZ
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HECTOR L RUIZ
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30E/81
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LEFT FOR HECTOR LOPEZ RUIZ
POSTED ON 10.27.2021
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Thank You
Dear Sp4 Hector Ruiz, Thank you for your service with the 577th Engineer Battalion. Your 75th birthday just passed, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Halloween is this weekend. Time moves quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
POSTED ON 11.1.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]
Remembering An American Hero
Dear SP4 Hector Lopez Ruiz, 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
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
POSTED ON 7.19.2012
POSTED BY: Don Cooper
High School
This is Hector Ruiz's senior class picture from the OHS 1965 school annual.
POSTED ON 2.2.2012
POSTED BY: Don Cooper
Hector L. Ruiz Obituary
Othello Outlook, Othello, WA 30 Nov. 1967.
Rites Pending for Othello Vietnam Victim: Full military funeral rites have been tentatively set here for an Othello Army enlistee who died last Friday in a hospital in Japan where he had been taken for treatment of injuroes suffered in Vietnam. Funeral arrangements are pending for Hector L. Ruiz, 21, Othello, until his body is returned from Japan. The Muscott Funeral home reported arrangements are pending at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will be at the Bess Hampton Memorial Gardens with an honor guard scheduled to be present from Ft. Lewis to accord Ruiz full military honors. The Funeral Home reported Ruiz died of severe gasoline explosion burns suffered in support of combat troops. Ruiz was born 15 October 1946 in Fort Schute, MT. He came here five years ago with his parents and graduated from Othello High School in 1965. He enlisted in the U.S. Army a year and a half ago and held the rank of Specialist 4th Class. He had been in Vietnam for about three months. Survivors include his father, Benito of Othello; mother Maria Rafaeda of Othello; two brothers, Narcisco and Armando, both of Othello; and four sister, Mrs. Gregoria Rodriques and Mrs. Consuelo Ortiz of Othello, Mrs. Jasinta Martinez of Eagle Pass, TX and Mrs. Maria Mendoza.
Rites Pending for Othello Vietnam Victim: Full military funeral rites have been tentatively set here for an Othello Army enlistee who died last Friday in a hospital in Japan where he had been taken for treatment of injuroes suffered in Vietnam. Funeral arrangements are pending for Hector L. Ruiz, 21, Othello, until his body is returned from Japan. The Muscott Funeral home reported arrangements are pending at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will be at the Bess Hampton Memorial Gardens with an honor guard scheduled to be present from Ft. Lewis to accord Ruiz full military honors. The Funeral Home reported Ruiz died of severe gasoline explosion burns suffered in support of combat troops. Ruiz was born 15 October 1946 in Fort Schute, MT. He came here five years ago with his parents and graduated from Othello High School in 1965. He enlisted in the U.S. Army a year and a half ago and held the rank of Specialist 4th Class. He had been in Vietnam for about three months. Survivors include his father, Benito of Othello; mother Maria Rafaeda of Othello; two brothers, Narcisco and Armando, both of Othello; and four sister, Mrs. Gregoria Rodriques and Mrs. Consuelo Ortiz of Othello, Mrs. Jasinta Martinez of Eagle Pass, TX and Mrs. Maria Mendoza.
POSTED ON 12.15.2006
POSTED BY: Bill Nelson: Nam Vet 101st Airborne
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 and patriots 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
"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 and patriots 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