Kenneth Duane Shoaps
Sergeant
D CO, 2ND BN, 506TH INFANTRY, 101ST ABN DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan
June 25, 1948 to May 23, 1969
KENNETH D SHOAPS is on the Wall at Panel W24, Line 90

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09 Sep 2001

I didn't know you well in high school, but I heard you died in Vietnam. I marked it in my yearbook. In 1969, I was in college and did some antiwar protesting. I wish more men knew that many of us protesting were not communist sympathizers, but just classmates, your own age, who didn't want our friends to die.

The Moving Wall came to my town, so I found your name. I'm sorry that you died so young. I appreciate the cause for which you gave your life in a way I could not understand when I was 21.

Pamela (Seymour) Weimer
GPHS Class of '66
kwe1521455@aol.com


 

A Note from The Virtual Wall

D Company, 2/506th Infantry, lost five men on 23 May 1969:
  • SSG Heriberto Marrero-Estrada, Bayamon, PR
  • SGT Douglas R. Matheson, Columbiaville, MI
  • SGT Kenneth D. Shoaps, Grosse Pointe Wood, MI
  • CPL Jose M. Galarza-Quinones, Rio Piedras, PR
  • PFC Douglas J. Sommer, Kearns, UT

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