HONORED ON PANEL 56E, LINE 17 OF THE WALL
JOHN ROBERT VELASQUEZ
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JOHN R VELASQUEZ
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56E/17
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LEFT FOR JOHN ROBERT VELASQUEZ
POSTED ON 2.25.2024
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you.....
Some may think you are forgotten
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….
Though on earth you are no more
But in our memory you are with us
As you always were before….
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POSTED ON 1.27.2024
POSTED BY: ANON
Never Forgotten
On the remembrance of your 75th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.
Semper Fi, Marine
Semper Fi, Marine
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POSTED ON 9.27.2022
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Thank You
Dear Lcpl John Velasquez, Thank you for your service as a Field Artillery Cannoneer. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart . Autumn has begun. 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 5.13.2022
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Ground Casualty
Fire Support Base Alpha-3 was located just south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along Route 605, three miles west of Gio Linh village in Quang Tri Province, RVN. On April 30, 1968, Marines from W Battery, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division were conducting a night fire mission at FSB Alpha-3 when a munitions accident occurred. Reportedly, the fuze of one round hit the primer of another causing an explosion at approximately 10:00 PM. Two artillerymen were critically burned in the incident. LCPL John R. Velasquez received second and third degree burns over ninety percent of his body, and CPL Jerry L. Andrews sustained second and third degree burns to his head and body. Both men were treated in Vietnam, afterwards medically evacuated to the burn center at the U.S. Army’s 106th General Hospital in Yokohama, Japan. Velasquez succumbed to his injuries on May 6th; Andrews expired on the early morning of May 11, 1968. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and the Fort Collins Coloradoan (Fort Collins, CO), May 23, 1968]
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