David Reese Young, Jr

Second Lieutenant
B CO, 1ST BN, 5TH INF RGT, 25 INF DIV
Army of the United States
27 March 1944 - 15 March 1968
Fairbanks, Alaska
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25 INF DIV

5TH INF RGT
Armor

National Defense, Vietnam Service, Vietnam Campaign

The database page for David Reese Young, Jr

15 Aug 2004

David R. Young
Photo courtesy of Wayne Goza

REMEMBERED

by his comrades in the
5th Inf Rgt
5th Infantry
30 Sep 2004

Years have not diminished the memory of kindness and friendship extended by "Skip" and family during my early months in Alaska.

I am standing upon the seashore. A Ship at my side spreads her
white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her
until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud, just where
the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at
my side says, "There, she is gone!" "Gone where?" Gone from my
sight - that is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and
spar as she was when she left my side, and she is just as able to
bear her load of freight to her destined port. Her diminished
size is in me, not in her. And, just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!", there are voices ready to
take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!" - And, that is dying.
- Henry Van Dyke -

From a friend,
Scott Freeman
Litchfield, New Hampshire
scott157@aol.com

A Note from The Virtual Wall

On 15 March 1968 Companies "A" and "B", 1/5th Infantry, were conducting search operations near Bao Trang. While searching a well a man from Company B passed out. A second man was lowed into the well with belt links fastened to his own belt, but he too passed out and the belt broke, dropping him into the well. A third man attempted rescue, wearing a gas mask, but he too passed out. He was pulled out and a fourth man was lowed in with a gas mask, but he also passed out. Another man was lowered down and holding his breath, retrieved the men in the well one at a time.

Two of the Bobcats could not be revived and died, and a third died while enroute to hospital on a dust-off. The three were

  • 2LT David R. Young, Fairbanks, AK, "B" Co
  • CPL Edward A. Lionetta, Springfield, MA, "A" Co
  • SP4 Paul A. Young, Mishawaka, IN, "B" Co




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