DENNIS DAY HARRIS

Birth 15OCT44 Rank SGT Date of Death 13OCT66 P. of birth   Service Marines Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Mulino Unit CO F 2 BN 5TH MAR 1ST MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died; Guns, Small Arms Fire; Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2049279 Panel 11EAST - 71 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Willamette National Cem., Portland OR

     DAREL LEE SILLS

Birth 01SEP41 Rank SP4 Date of Death 13OCT66 P. of birth   Service Army Place S. Vietnam Town of Record Salem Unit USARV 246th Psy Opns Co 571st Military Intelligence Grp Death Code Hostile, Died; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 19817666 Panel 11EAST - 72 Married Single In Service   Medals Purple Heart   Tour Date 27JUN66 Comment   Cemetery

     DON EDWARD DARNALL

Birth 09MAY46 Rank LCPL Date of Death 22OCT66 P. of birth Portland Service Marines (Draft) Place Quang Tri S. Vietnam Town of Record Bend Unit G CO 2/5TH MAR 1ST MAR DIV Death Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Multiple Fragmentation Wounds Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2231193 Panel 11EAST - 97 Married Married In Service   Medals Purple Heart  Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Bend

First casualty BEND MARINE KILLED IN VIET NAM ACTION
    A Bend Marine, Lance Cpl. Don Edward Darnall, 20, was killed in action in Viet Nam on Saturday (22 Oct 1966). Details of his death have not been released by the Marine Corps. It was the first reported death of a Bend serviceman since the beginning of the war.
    Cpl Darnall's wife and family were informed of the death on Saturday by two Marines sent here from Eugene.
    Cpl. Darnall had been in Viet Nam for five months.
    His wife is the former Phyllis Ann Sigmund. They were married on 18 Sep 1965.
    His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Darnall, 1304 Kingstone Ave. He is also survived by two brothers, Jerry Howard Darnall, Portland, and Montey Darnall, Bend. Maternal grandmother is Mrs. B. A. Nelson of Portland and paternal grandmother is Mrs. Mae Darnall of Yreka CA.
    His wife's parents are Mr. and Mrs. Everett Sigmund of Bend.
    Cpl. Darnall was born in Portland on 9 May 1946. He came to Bend with his family in 1956. Following graduation from Bend High School, he attended Central Oregon College, where he was in the top ten of his graduation class.
    He had been in the Marine Corps since January, 1965.
    Funeral services will be held in Bend. Details are still pending and will be announced later by Niswonger and Reynolds Funeral Home.
    His father is the local representative for Austin Brothers, a wholesale firm. (The Bulletin, Bend OR, 24 Oct 1966)

     TIMOTHY JAMES MEEKER

Birth 21DEC46 Rank CPL Date of Death 29OCT66 P. of birth Klamath Falls Service Marines Place Quang Nam S. Vietnam Town of Record Redmond Unit 3rd Marine Div B Co 1st Bn 9th Mars Death Code Hostile, Died Wounds; Other Explosive Devices Ground Casualty Hometown   service # 2139035 Panel 11EAST - 127 Married Single Event Date 1SEP66 Medals Purple Heart  Navy Commendation Medal Tour Date   Comment   Cemetery Redmond Memorial Cemetery

Born in Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon the son of Robert Waldo Meeker and Barbara (Shopshire) Meeker; brother of Janice, Ann, Rae, Earl and Ralph Meeker. Tim went to school at Redmond Union High School and was voted outstanding football lineman and was captain of the wrestling team. Tim enlisted in the Marine Corps in June, 1965 and was sent to Vietnam in November 1965. He was gravely injured in South Vietnam on Sept. 1, 1966 and died from injuries 58 days later at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Oakland, California. He was a 19-year-old corporal and was awarded the Purple Heart and Navy Commendation Medal