Freddy Paul Heugel, age 35, from Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Wayne County.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, May 12, 1984
Death details: He died this day in 1984 from wounds he received in 1969 at age 20. Years ago his fiancé posted this on a Vietnam memorial site: “He came home with massive injuries just five months after he left. When he found out how bad it was he refused to see me. I was devastated.” Freddy’s name was added to the Vietnam Wall in 1989.
Source: National Archives, togetherweserved, Battle Creek Enquirier (1989)