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Fitzgibbon's name was added to the Vietnam Memorial Wall on May 31, 1999, and Today Show host Katie Couric interviewed members of his family for the occasion. [8] The DoD had previously moved the date of the start of the Vietnam War to include the death of Captain Cramer, who was killed at Nha Trang in a training accident on October 21, 1957. [10]
Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. became the first American to be killed in the Vietnam War. Fitzgibbon was serving as part of the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) (DET 1, 1173RD FOR MSN SQD), [18] which was involved in training military personnel in South Vietnam. Fitzgibbon was not killed in action, but rather was murdered by another United ...
Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.'s death in June 1956 was deemed to have taken place before the start of the Vietnam War. However, the family of Fitzgibbon had long lobbied to have the start date changed and their cause was taken up by U.S. Representative Ed Markey (D-MA). [10]
During the Vietnam protests, one might have seen a counter-protester calling demonstrators commies. By the 1970s, most Americans opposed the war (though an awful lot also opposed the protests ...
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Some Americans, including diplomats, remained in Vietnam until the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese in 1975. Former President Donald Trump signed the Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of ...
"Name of Technical Sergeant Richard B. Fitzgibbon to be added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial". Department of Defense (DoD). Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Dror, Olga (2018). Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965–1975. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108556163. Duiker, William J. (1981).
Due to the creation of the MAAG for Vietnam on this date, in 1998 after a high level review by the Department of Defense (DoD) and through the efforts of Richard B. Fitzgibbon's family, November 1, 1955, became the earliest qualifying date for inclusion of American combat deaths on the wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. [24]