Remembering my fellow Polecat
Richard Maxwell Arann
Helicopter Pilot, CW2, US Army
Norfolk, Virginia
July 2, 1941 to June 24, 1969
On the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, panel 21W -
line 5
Rick was an old-timer, 27 years old and on his
second tour as a
helicopter pilot. He was a funny, friendly, guy and tried to
teach
the newer pilots the important details that could keep them
alive.
Rick was killed by a claymore mine that a US Soldier had placed
on
the back of the barracks with the intent to kill the First
Sergeant.
"To live in the hearts we leave behind
is never to have died. "
Thomas Campbell
Copyright: 5/29/97 the author and the
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