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17 Nov 66
Hi Ronnie,
When I get out, I guess I’ll take it easy for a couple of months and just mess around. Been thinking of buying a car, and just riding around the country to see what there is and forget the Army…
Louie
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PFC Louis E. Willett served with Company C, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division. He was killed during a firefight in Kontum province on 15 February 1967. For his actions, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military award. His citation reads in part: “PFC Willett covered [his] squad’s withdrawal, but his position drew heavy enemy machine gun fire, and he received multiple wounds. [He] struggled to an upright position and, disregarding his painful wounds, he again engaged the enemy with his rifle to allow his squad to continue its movement and to evacuate several of his comrades who were by now wounded. Moving from position to position, he engaged the enemy at close range until he was mortally wounded.” Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Richmond Hill, he was 21 years old when he died.
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