JACKIE D STOGSDILL
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HONORED ON PANEL 3W, LINE 53 OF THE WALL

JACKIE DEAN STOGSDILL

WALL NAME

JACKIE D STOGSDILL

PANEL / LINE

3W/53

DATE OF BIRTH

01/21/1952

CASUALTY PROVINCE

BINH DINH

DATE OF CASUALTY

05/24/1971

HOME OF RECORD

ORANGE

COUNTY OF RECORD

Orange County

STATE

CA

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

PVT

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REMEMBRANCES

LEFT FOR JACKIE DEAN STOGSDILL
POSTED ON 11.14.2023
POSTED BY: John Fabris

honoring you....

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. The remembrance from your brother Carl is touching and reflects his admiration and respect for you. As long as you are remembered you will remain in our hearts forever….
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POSTED ON 12.3.2022

Ground Casualty

On May 16, 1971, a New York Times article described heroin use by American troops in Vietnam had reached epidemic proportions. The piece reported that 10 to 15 percent of lower-ranking enlisted men were heroin users, and military officials working in drug‐suppression estimated that as much as a quarter of all enlisted personnel, more than 60,000 men, were hooked. They added that some field surveys reported units with more than 50 percent of the men on heroin. In Vietnam, the drug was plentiful, cheap, and 95 percent pure. Its effects could casually be achieved through smoking or snorting, as compared to the U.S., where the drug was impure, only about five percent heroin, and had to be main-lined or injected into the bloodstream to achieve a comparable high. The habit, which cost a hundred dollars a day to maintain in the U.S., cost only five dollars a day in Vietnam. PVT Jackie D. Stogsdill joined the Army from California and trained as a Combat Engineer, serving with A Company, 299th Engineer Battalion, 937th Engineer Group. During 1971, the drawdown of American forces in Southeast Asia was well underway with most combat engineer battalions departing Vietnam. The 299th continued to carry out combat and operational support missions primarily geared to the remaining U.S. combat forces as they shifted their defense roles to the Vietnamese. These operations included building firebases and upgrading local roads. In May 1971, Stogsdill was admitted to the 67th Evacuation Hospital at Camp Townes in Binh Dinh Province, RVN, for health complications associated with heroin addiction. He expired May 24th from acute bacterial endocarditis, a condition where bacteria or other germs in the bloodstream travel to the heart damaging the organ’s valves or tissue. In heroin addicts, the infections can arise from non-sterile intravenous drug injections. Stogsdill was 19 years old. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org, “G.I. Heroin Addiction Epidemic in Vietnam.” New York Times (New York, NY), May 16, 1971, and “Engineers at War” by Adrian G. Traas]
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POSTED ON 5.20.2022
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik

Thank You

Dear PVT Jackie Stogsdill, Thank you for your service as a Combat Engineer. Your 51st anniversary is in 4 days, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Memorial Day is soon, and we honor you. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 1.16.2022
POSTED BY: ANON

Burial Information

PVT Jackie Dean Stogsdill is buried in Garden of Remembrance, Section 15, Lot 692, Grave 3 of the Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, CA.

Your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH
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POSTED ON 1.20.2021
POSTED BY: ANON

Never forgotten

On the remembrance of your 69th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.

HOOAH
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