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HONORED ON PANEL 43W, LINE 32 OF THE WALL
DENNIS EDWARD WITKOWSKI
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DENNIS E WITKOWSKI
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LEFT FOR DENNIS EDWARD WITKOWSKI
POSTED ON 5.26.2015
POSTED BY: Hank Faleski
Just a moment in time
I'll never forget when me and my friends were in 8th grade and we were playing a small game of basketball. Dennis was just sitting having a few cigarettes and watching us play. A handful of guys who were Seniors in HS came to the court and told us to beat it because they wanted to play. Dennis , who was their age told them that we were here first and they better move along. They left and Dennis just smiled and told us to play ball. I never forgot that my friend....May your soul be with The Lord.
POSTED ON 6.18.2010
POSTED BY: Robert Sage
We Remember
Dennis is buried at St Michael's Cemetery in Shenandoah, PA. BSM/OLC PH
POSTED ON 2.6.2005
POSTED BY: Jim McIlhenney
The Philadelphia Inquirer - September 26, 1968
The little mining community of Shenandoah learned of its first Vietnam casualty on Wednesday.
Pfc. Dennis Witkowski, 22, of 328 W. Atlantic st., was killed in action 18 days after his infantry unit arrived in South Vietnam. He was killed by a mine east of Saigon.
His parents, Ben, a retired coal miner, and Eva, were informed of their son's death by Maj. Thomas A. Mohan, of the U.S. Army Reserve in Schuylkill Haven.
Witkowski was drafted into the Army in February and left Oakland, Calif., on August 30. His mother remembered him telling her, "I'll be coming home soon."
He was on both the varsity football and baseball teams of Shenandoah Catholic High School, from which he was graduated in 1964. He was employed as a construction worker at Mobile House and Trailer Unit, Schuylkill Haven, at the time he was drafted.
Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Leonard, and a sister, Mrs. Joanne Drozdowski.
Pfc. Dennis Witkowski, 22, of 328 W. Atlantic st., was killed in action 18 days after his infantry unit arrived in South Vietnam. He was killed by a mine east of Saigon.
His parents, Ben, a retired coal miner, and Eva, were informed of their son's death by Maj. Thomas A. Mohan, of the U.S. Army Reserve in Schuylkill Haven.
Witkowski was drafted into the Army in February and left Oakland, Calif., on August 30. His mother remembered him telling her, "I'll be coming home soon."
He was on both the varsity football and baseball teams of Shenandoah Catholic High School, from which he was graduated in 1964. He was employed as a construction worker at Mobile House and Trailer Unit, Schuylkill Haven, at the time he was drafted.
Besides his parents, he is survived by a brother, Leonard, and a sister, Mrs. Joanne Drozdowski.
POSTED ON 5.1.2003
POSTED BY: Kelsey Zehr
Hero
Dear Dennis,
The cost of freedom has never been cheap or inexpensive. It has cost the blood
and lives of hundreds and thousands of Americans over the course of our history. Any
person that has helped defend our country will always be remembered as a hero. Even
though we have never met, I would like to thank you for defending our country’s
freedom. You will always be remembered as a hero in my heart. May God bless you and
your family.
Sincerely,
Kelsey Zehr
The cost of freedom has never been cheap or inexpensive. It has cost the blood
and lives of hundreds and thousands of Americans over the course of our history. Any
person that has helped defend our country will always be remembered as a hero. Even
though we have never met, I would like to thank you for defending our country’s
freedom. You will always be remembered as a hero in my heart. May God bless you and
your family.
Sincerely,
Kelsey Zehr