Official Memorial Day Roll Call 2023
In memory of SP4 Thomas Washington Lipsey III, while serving in 4th Gun section, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, attached to the 101st Airborne Division. A battery was located on FSB Bastogne, in the Thua Thien Province in the Republic of South Vietnam, approximately 18 miles southwest of Camp Eagle/Phu Bai in I Corp.
On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.
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Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
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You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.
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On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.
Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.
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In memory of SP4 Thomas Washington Lipsey III, while serving in 4th Gun section, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, attached to the 101st Airborne Division. A battery was located on FSB Bastogne, in the Thua Thien Province in the Republic of South Vietnam, approximately 18 miles southwest of Camp Eagle/Phu Bai in I Corp.
On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.
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Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
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You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.
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May God have mercy on his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed.In memory of SP4 Thomas Washington Lipsey III, while serving in 4th Gun section, A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 94th Field Artillery, attached to the 101st Airborne Division. A battery was located on FSB Bastogne, in the Thua Thien Province in the Republic of South Vietnam, approximately 18 miles southwest of Camp Eagle/Phu Bai in I Corp.
On the morning of Feb. 6th 1972, while on a fire mission in support of the 196th Infantry Brigade in the Thua Thien Province, as the fire mission was proceeding, the next round was fired from the 8" self-propelled M110 Howitzer, the barrel (tube) split in half and drove the breech (weighing several tons) backwards into Tom who was standing directly behind the Gun and into the berm, the explosion also injuring three other crew members (Crew Chief, Gunner and Assistant Gunner) who were on top of the Gun platform at the time of the accidental explosion.
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Tom's name is engraved on Panel 02W - Line 104 at the Vietnam Memorial located in Washington D.C. and on the 2nd Battalion 94th Field Artillery Memorial Monument on display, at the Memorial Park in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
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You're not forgotten Tom, Godspeed.
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An Official Journal Of The NRA | The Price Of Memorial Day
The military and firearm industries, more than any others, understand freedom is not free. Some paid the ultimate price while serving in this great republic’s armed forces and their willingness to go in harm’s way to protect our freedom is honored each year on Memorial Day.
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