11/11/2011

We Thank You...Uncle Don

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LLOYD J HUCKS   NATHANIEL IRVING   PERRY D JOHNSON   DONALD L KIPP   ARTHUR L KLAUS
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ROBERT L HETTINGER   JERRY D JONES   ROBERT S KNADLER   GREGORY M LEINEN   ROGER A MEYERS


To my Uncle Don, I know I never met you but I have seen your picture many times and I know that you were a brave young man! Laying your life down for your brothers, parents, friends, family, and future generations... I THANK YOU! Years ago we visited the Vietnam Memorial where we rubbed your name off the wall and I will never forget that, knowing that you should have lived past 20 years old, seen his family grow and been apart of the family makes me so appreciative for what you have done. I know my Dad misses his brother, but we both thank you!

This is what his name look like on the wall...


confirmed DONALD L KIPP

DONALD LEE KIPP
is honored on Panel 33W, Row 86 
PERSONAL DATA
  Home of Record:  Montclair, CA
  Date of birth:   12/01/1949

MILITARY DATA
  Service:         Army of the United States
  Grade at loss:   E4
  Rank:            Specialist Four
  ID No:           18858291
  MOS:             11B20: Infantryman
  Length Service:  01
  Unit:            C CO, 1ST BN, 501ST INFANTRY, 101ST ABN DIV, USARV

CASUALTY DATA
  Start Tour:      07/19/1968
  Incident Date:   02/08/1969
  Casualty Date:   02/08/1969
  Age at Loss:     19
  Location:        Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam
  Remains:         Body recovered
  Casualty Type:   Hostile, died outright
  Casualty Reason: Ground casualty
  Casualty Detail: Gun or small arms fire

URL: www.VirtualWall.org/dk/KippDL01a.htm
 
ON THE WALL Panel 33W Line 086the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.



This is what people have written on his wall on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund...



The following remembrances have been left at The Virtual Wall for DONALD LEE KIPP:
Never Forgotten
Posted by Jack Ruffer
We Remember
Posted by Robert Sage
To Don Kipp
Posted by Roland P. Carriveau, We were high school classmates
Class mates
Posted by Ray Baker, We were high school classmates
Co- Captain
Posted by Fred Medina, We were close friends
DONALD KIPP A GOOD FRIEND
Posted by JOHN WESTWOOD, We were close friends
I will never forget you.
Posted by Jan Knutson(Janice Gunckel), We went "steady" in high schoo
TO DONNY
Posted by CLIFF SIMMONDS, We grew up together
TO DONNY
Posted by CLIFF SIMMONDS, We grew up together

2 comments

  1. Thank you for posting that! Even tho we never met him is still family! And we thank him for giving his life for our freedom! Love you
    Elyse

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