RAMON CASTRO-MORALES
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HONORED ON PANEL 36W, LINE 33 OF THE WALL

RAMON CASTRO-MORALES

WALL NAME

RAMON CASTRO-MORALES

PANEL / LINE

36W/33

DATE OF BIRTH

09/10/1947

CASUALTY PROVINCE

QUANG TIN

DATE OF CASUALTY

12/17/1968

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SANTURCE

STATE

PR

BRANCH OF SERVICE

ARMY

RANK

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LEFT FOR RAMON CASTRO-MORALES
POSTED ON 3.31.2018

Air Loss - Fixed-Wing

On December 17, 1968, a USAF Fairchild C-123K Provider (#54-0708) from the 309th Special Operations Squadron crashed shortly after takeoff from Chu Lai Air Base after reportedly encountering an engine failure following fuel transfer problems. Three crewmen and nine passengers were killed in the crash. The lost crewmen included aircraft commander LTC Richard A. Brown, co-pilot 1LT Roger H. Strout, and flight engineer SSGT Jesse J. Bradshaw. The lost passengers were U.S. Army personnel: 1LT John A. Blaco Jr., PFC Bradley J. Bourque, SGT Ramon Castro-Morales, CPT Richard C. Drewes, CPT John K. Hayward, CWO John P. Koob, 1LT John D. Krouslis, SSGT Wallace F. Simpkin, and CPT Morton H. Singer. Five other passengers died subsequent to the injuries they received. They included two Marines, SGT Mancol R. Clifton, who died the following day due to burns he suffered; and PVT George W. Brown, who passed away January 13, 1969, also from burns. The three other lost passengers were soldiers: SP4 Dennis G. Benson, who died December 23, 1968, from burns after being evacuated to a burn unit at the 106th Army General Hospital in Yokohama, Japan; SFC Richard H. Sweger, who died January 2, 1969, from bilateral pneumonia due to his injuries; and SP4 Henry E. Russell, who died May 7, 1969, after spending 135 days at Brooke Army General Hospital at Fort Sam Houston, TX, where he was being treated for burns he suffered over 35% of his body. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and aviation-safety.net]
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POSTED ON 10.23.2017
POSTED BY: LUCY CONTE MICIK

THANKS

Dear Sgt Ramon Castro-Morales,
I hope your photo is put here because wall of faces needs yours. Thank you for your service as a Chemical Supply & Parts Specialist. It is important for us all to acknowledge the sacrifices of those like you who answered our nation's call. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 11.28.2013
POSTED BY: Curt Carter [email protected]

Remembering An American Hero

Dear SGT Ramon Castro-Morales, sir

As an American, I would like to thank you for your service and for your sacrifice made on behalf of our wonderful country. The youth of today could gain much by learning of heroes such as yourself, men and women whose courage and heart can never be questioned.

May God allow you to read this, and may He allow me to someday shake your hand when I get to Heaven to personally thank you. May he also allow my father to find you and shake your hand now to say thank you; for America, and for those who love you.

With respect, and the best salute a civilian can muster for you, Sir

Curt Carter
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POSTED ON 7.9.2013
POSTED BY: Marc Pacino

SP/4 Marc Pacino (Louie Gonzalez)

Ramon and I were in the same hut and would talk all of the time. He told me he was from Puerto Rico, would tell me about his Family, and what he planned to do when he "ETS'd" out of the service.

One of my other friends named Hoover came up to me and told me he was killed in one of the C-130's. I was extremely distraught as I planned to go to PR and meet his friends and family. sadly, that never happened. To this day I miss his smile, his laughter, and his friendship. I went to the Vietnam Wall and did a rubbing of his name.
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POSTED ON 1.3.2007
POSTED BY: Nam Vet 2/502 Infantry 101st Airborne

NEVER FORGOTTEN

FOREVER REMEMBERED

"If you are able, 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.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."

Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.

We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you , one of the gentle heroes and patriots lost to the War in Vietnam:

Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.

From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
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