Remembering the Fallen: Jerry Corp, Vietnam War

This was not written yesterday I was just getting home from Indianapolis.

From the May 27, 2019, Chicago Sun-Times "Memorial Day is to the fallen" by Neil Steinberg.

"The Jerry Corp Memorial Highway is not long.  A section of U.S. Highway 160, it runs 2 1/2 miles through Ozark County, Missouri, 250 miles southwest of St. Louis.

"A green highway sign flashes by, the name registers and some drivers may feel a passing curiosity:  Does anybody remember Jerry Corp?"

"Tom Dier remembers him.

""We weren't really close or anything like that, said Dier, 70.  "He wasn't in my platoon."

"A mortar platoon in Company C, First Battalion, 52nd Infantry.  Corp was a radioman attached to the command post in Quang Ngai province, Vietnam."

" 'We got to know each other that way,' said Nier, who grew up in Nortbrook and has returned home to speak at the northwest suburb's Memorial Day commemoration after the parade Monday.  'You didn't really get close to people too much.' "

This will be continued on my Not So Forgotten: War of 1812 blog and will finish in my Down da Road I Go blog of this date.