Ronald David GouletSergeantA CO, 2ND BN, 12TH CAVALRY, 1 CAV DIV Army of the United States 02 October 1947 - 03 January 1968 Garden City, Michigan Panel 33E Line 028 |
 
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The database page for Ronald David Goulet
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Dear Ron: We only knew each other briefly from high school, but please know my thoughts and prayers are with you. I was in Nam too, so I can understand the hell you went through. Nobody has posted a tribute to you and I find it kind of hurtful. We lost quite a few guys from home to Nam, but none of you are lost to me. Not ever. Keep your head down and your powder dry, Ron,
Mike Minch |
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Ronnie What a hunk you were! All the girls were goofy for you, including me! The day finally came when you called and asked me to go out with you. I thought my world was going to end because I was grounded and had to say no. From time to time something will happen in my life to trigger a memory of you. I also think of your brother from time to time. My prayer is that you are with your dad and your brother right now.
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Dear Ron: Every one who knew you felt you were their best friend - you were surely mine. The night you died we recorded music, smoked, laughed and played casino. I think you sang every song out of Motown. I held you as you lay in the mud at sunrise. You are always with me...
Mike Remer |
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Ron: You and I played Little League baseball and hockey together as kids. We went to high school together, Garden City East. I finally found this website so as to pay tribute to a great guy that I knew while "growing up". You and I wrote a few letters to each other while we were both in Vietnam and then ... I was medevaced 3 Feb 68 and you were already gone! Very sad! I didn't find out until I reached stateside that this had happened. You are listed under "D" Company, 12th Cav. on the website www.thewall-usa.com. I will submit a picture of you to this website when you and I were around 11 or 12 years old. See you, friend, in a few years.
Van Scheurich (Spike) USMC 1966-69 |
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Ron, We all loved you and Armondo and we always talk about you and Mike all the time.
From a buddy, |
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Ronnie, you and I went to school from 1st grade through high school. You were never a boyfriend, but always a good friend. I remember all the good times we had as kids ... climbing the roof of Lathers ... going to your parents' store ... learning to dance to "rock & roll" in Mr. Thurston's 4th grade class ... teasing me because you rode the bus to Junior High and I had to walk ... watching you play baseball in high school ... oh, so many memories! Ronnie, you were one of kind, and proof that "only the good die young". Miss you....
Barbra Turek |
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Dear Ron...... I found this site by accident and memories flooded back. You were a year ahead of me in school and while we didn't know each other very well, we had many friends in common. You were always nice and while I agree that you were a "looker" it was your personality that struck me. It was so long ago now but when I think of the other guys lost to Nam from our little area I still feel the sadness of a teenager. I am not sure but I had thought you had been drafted to play ball for the Detroit Tigers. You will remain eternally young and never be forgotten for your sacrifice.
Catherine (Cathy) Braspennix Lehman |
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Hey Ron, It has taken way too long to wait to write you. I will always remember your care and friendship for me during those black days together. I was at the opposite end of the perimeter from you that night when the stuff came down. That night is burned deep in my brain and it will never leave my brain. God knows I have tried everything to make it go away ... I just can't. I cried like a small child when I learned that you were gone. The rage has stayed with me for too long now and I am trying to get help. I made it a few days more (until 7 January) ... then got kind of wacked and spent almost two years in various hospitals. I just wanted to say hello and hope that I will someday soon find some the peace I have meen missing since those times. It has been for so long now I don't know if I ever will. You were the best and a great loss to mankind. Rest easy, my brother ... I'll see you soon enough.
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Notes from The Virtual WallOn 2 Jan 1968, D Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, was occupying Landing Zone Leslie at the southern end of the Que Son Valley. In addition to D/2/12 the LZ garrison included a single platoon from Alpha Company, 2/12; a 105mm howitzer battery; and a quad 50 and searchlight unit. The remainder of 2/12 was at Landing Zone Ross at the opposite (northern) end of the valley.At about 1:30 AM, LZ Leslie was attacked by a reinforced battalion of the NVA 2nd Division. The NVA sappers managed to breach the defensive perimeter and overrun a part of the LZ. The defenders, supported by helicopter gunships, held out through the night and ejected the NVA force from the LZ at sunrise. However, 10 men from D Company and 2 from the A Company platoon were lost:
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The point-of-contact for this memorial is a friend, Mike Minch mminch416@aol.com |
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With all respect
Jim Schueckler, former CW2, US Army
Ken Davis, Commander, United States Navy (Ret)
Memorial first published on 27 Jun 2003
Last updated 07/20/2007