Patrick Joseph Michael, age 33, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Service era: Vietnam
Parent: Edna Radford
Date of death: Sunday, January 28, 1979
Death details: Michael was shot in the head by the Viet Cong on February 23, 1967 while his squad traveled at night down a river. He wasn’t expected to live, but was airlifted to a field hospital and later transferred to hospitals in Japan and California. Two years after the injury, he started having seizures. He died in 1979 in Michigan. Doctors said he died from a degenerative neurological disease from the wound. His name was added to the Wall in 1996.
Cemetery: White Chapel Memorial Park, Troy
Source: National Archives, findagrve.com, Detroit Free Press