HONORED ON PANEL 41E, LINE 45 OF THE WALL
MONTE EUGENE VAN SKIKE
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MONTE E VAN SKIKE
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41E/45
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LEFT FOR MONTE EUGENE VAN SKIKE
POSTED ON 3.15.2024
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you.....
Remember to 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...
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POSTED ON 9.21.2022
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Thank You
Dear PFC Monte Van Skike, Thank you for your service as an Infantryman. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Today is the last full day of summer. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it still needs your strength, courage, guidance and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 2.28.2019
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Ground Casualty
SP4 James W. Nichols Jr., PFC John L. Stewart, and PFC Monte E. Van Skike were infantrymen serving with C Company, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry, 11th Infantry Brigade, Americal Division. Since December 1967, the 11th Infantry Brigade had been participating in Operation Muscatine, an Americal operation conducted west of Duc Pho in the lower tip of Quang Ngai Province, RVN, with its three battalions going after the 2nd and 22nd Regiments of the 3rd Viet Cong Division. On February 26, 1968, an old ammo box was located near some trees five miles southwest of Binh Son. While the discovery was being reported to their squad leader, Nichols, Stewart, and Van Skike, despite be admonished not to, decided to open the box. An explosion occurred as a booby-trap detonated, critically injuring them. A medic provided first aid and they were dusted off (medically evacuated); however, the three Americal soldiers succumbed to their injuries. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Craig Wentling (November 2008) at vvmf.org]
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