John Andrew Burzawa, Jr

Private First Class
D CO, 1ST BN, 35TH INF RGT, 4 INF DIV
Army of the United States
29 September 1945 - 25 January 1968
Joliet, Illinois
Panel 35E Line 030

4 INF DIV 35TH INF RGT
Combat Infantry

Bronze Star, Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign
John A Burzawa

The database page for John Andrew Burzawa, Jr

23 Dec 2001

"To live in the hearts we leave behind,
is never to have died."
- Thomas Campbell, circa 1888 -

Rodger Leffler
Delta 1/35 Inf 1968
leffler.rodger.a@edumail.vic.gov.au
28 May 2005

I just don't want John forgotten. I lived next door to his father, also John, who died last month at the age of 87. He never got over the loss of his only son (John's sister, Judy, is living and a grandma now). John got married just before Vietnam and fathered a child that he never saw. I never met John, but remember when our Air Force outfit had a reunion that I threw around 1980 (in our yard as well as in a hotel in Joliet), his dad didn't want to come out, because it reminded him of too much hurt. This is the Memorial Day weekend, and I simply didn't want John forgotten.

From a friend of his father and step-mom.,
Roman Okrei
Lockport, Illinois
ok@shulinkou.com

Remembered by his fellow soldiers of the
35TH INF RGT
35th Infantry - the Cacti Regiment

Photo courtesy of the 35th Infantry Assn



The point-of-contact for this memorial is
a comrade-in-arms,
Rodger Leffler
leffler.rodger.a@edumail.vic.gov.au
23 Dec 2001



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Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
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