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HONORED ON PANEL 5W, LINE 92 OF THE WALL
BLAKE DOMINIC WHITNEY
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BLAKE D WHITNEY
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5W/92
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LEFT FOR BLAKE DOMINIC WHITNEY
POSTED ON 12.30.2022
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Thank You
Dear PVT Blake Whitney, Thank you for your service as a Field Artillery Basic. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is the 5th Day of Christmas (date on this site is wrong), Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.
POSTED ON 2.9.2022
POSTED BY: Dean Whitney
To my bro
I will always remember this day it is when I lost my brother
POSTED ON 3.29.2021
POSTED BY: Mary DeWitt
For his family
Chicago Soldier Dies on Duty in Viet Nam [Chgo Trib 17 Feb 1971]...
Pvt. Blake D. Whitney, 20, of 650 W. 43d Place, was killed Feb. 9 in South Viet Nam near Laos when his artillery position came under attack, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Whitney, a loader of heavy artillery guns, had been in Viet Nam since November. A 1969 graduate of Tilden Technical High School, he was drafted by the Army last February after quitting his job as a truck driver for a cartage firm. He received his advanced training, at Fort Sill, in Oklahoma, said his father, Jon M. Whitney, a retired machinist. Other survivors are his mother, Rose, and seven brothers, Jon Jr., Richard, Wayne, Anthony, Keith, Dale, and Dean, as well as two sisters, Mrs. Phillis Cecil, and Mrs. Linda Harnish.
Pvt. Blake D. Whitney, 20, of 650 W. 43d Place, was killed Feb. 9 in South Viet Nam near Laos when his artillery position came under attack, the Defense Department announced yesterday. Whitney, a loader of heavy artillery guns, had been in Viet Nam since November. A 1969 graduate of Tilden Technical High School, he was drafted by the Army last February after quitting his job as a truck driver for a cartage firm. He received his advanced training, at Fort Sill, in Oklahoma, said his father, Jon M. Whitney, a retired machinist. Other survivors are his mother, Rose, and seven brothers, Jon Jr., Richard, Wayne, Anthony, Keith, Dale, and Dean, as well as two sisters, Mrs. Phillis Cecil, and Mrs. Linda Harnish.
POSTED ON 12.14.2020
POSTED BY: ANON
Never forgotten
On the remembrance of your 70th birthday, your sacrifice is not forgotten.
HOOAH
HOOAH
