Robert Clokes
Specialist Four
40TH INF PLT SCOUT DOG, HHC, 1ST BDE, 4TH INF DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
New York, New York
September 01, 1947 to December 04, 1968
ROBERT CLOKES is on the Wall at Panel W37, Line 38

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Robert Clokes
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I was with Robert the night before he died. I hadn't known him that long, I had been in country 4 months when he died. We worked side by side, night after night and day after day, in heat and rain, sun and dark. He was my friend who always had a smile on his face. I felt no closer to anyone in Vietnam. The night before he died he was listening to a tape from home, his sister or girlfriend, someone he loved. He was happy then.

The next morning he took a convoy, to Pleiku as I recall. I don't know why I didn't go, guess it wasn't my turn to get away, to get out of Dakto. But he never came back. I guess it was a landmine. Another buddy was wounded and had a plate put in his head, but Robert was dead. All I remembered was his happiness and smile the night before. I wanted to share with his family what a fine person he was, and maybe now I can.


 
A memorial from his buddy,
John Irvine
2744 Custer, Las Cruces, Nm 88011
jirvine@nmsu.edu 
30 Jun 2001


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