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For Cass War VictimA Marine camp at the mouth , of the Cua Viet River in Vietnam has been dedicated in honor of a Cass County Vietnam war victim.Camp Kistler was dedicated to Sgt. Jaines L. Kistler, 1425 Wright St., who had written in a letter he would “rather diethan know that my friends andrelatives would have to someday live under the communists.”A sign bearing the new camp name was placed on a concrete Torii near the camp along with a marble monument to Kistler.Kistler was the first man of the First Amphibian Tractorbattalion togtve his life in Vietnam. He died-Tune 9,1967, after sustaining fragmentary wounds while on patrol in Kuang Tri, Republic of Vietnam.The Marine’s commanding officer, Lt. Col. E. R. Toner, praised the sergeant as a dedicated man and Marine,“He knew what he was in Vietnam for/' he said, “and he died for his beliefs.”Kistler entered the Marine Corps in I960, shortly after graduating from togansport High School. 1 •He w'as the son of Mrs. Stella Kistler and the late Howard Kistler.
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Logansport Pharos Tribune and Press
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 01, 1968
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