Rudy Ramirez:  

DEL RIO TEXAS BIRTH TO 1970 MARRIED MELINDA MORALES MY JR YR OCT OF 68 MELINDA BECAME ILL IN NOV OF 69 AND DIED MAY 15TH 70 10 DAYS AFTER HER 18TH BD JOINED THE ARMY SUMMER OF 70 FT LEWIS WASHINGTON BASIC 1970 A-3-1 FT ORD CALIFORNIA AIT 1970 ERLANGEN GERMANY 47TH MED 4TH ARM DIV 1971,I MET GENERAL WESTMORELAND WHILE AT THIS POST MOVED TOFURTH GERMANY 47TH MED 1ST ARM DIV 1971 VOLUNTEERED FOR VIET NAM LONG BINH 1971 RETURN TO STATES IN 72 ASSIGNED TO 11TH MED CO FT HOOD TX ,WHILE HERE OUR UNIT ALSO WAS MOBILIZED AND FLOWN TO NICARAGUA TO SUPPORT THE COUNTRY AFTER A DEVASTING EARTHQUAKE. IN JAN 73 I WAS AWAKEN IN MIDDLE OF NIGHT AND TAKEN TO A FIELD IN MIDDLE OF NO WHERE WHERE A HELICOPTER PICKED US UP WE FLEW TO A DISTINATION UNKNOW NO ONE WOULD TELL US ANYTHING.WE LANDED AT A BIG HANGER AND TOLD TO GO INSIDE.NO ONE WAS THERE FOR HRS WE WAITED THEN AT DAWN YOU COULD HERE MANY MANY HELICOPTERS COMING IN ON THE HORIZON THE SKY WAS FULL OF THEM.IT WAS ONLY THEN THAT WE LEARNED LBJ HAD DIED.THAT WE WERE SUPPOSE TO CARRY HIS COFFIN.HOWEVER THAT FELL THROUGH AND AFTER A LONG DAY THAT ENDED WITH US HAVING NO PART OF HIS FUNERAL.BUT JUST TO BE CONSIDERED WAS AN HONOR FT DIX NEW JERSEY TRAINING CENTER 1974 FT BLISS TEXAS 2/5...Expand for more