Johnny L. Copeland, age 19, from Burlington, North Carolina, Alamance county.
Parents: Donald
Service era: Beirut bombings
Schools: Cummings High
Date of death: Sunday, October 23, 1983
Death details: Among more than 200 military personnel killed in the terrorist bombing of Marine headquarters in Beirut.
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, UPI (1983)
William Robert Bray, age 25, from Burlington, North Carolina, Alamance county.
Parents: Ethel Whitt Bray and William Herbert Bray Jr. (preceeded in death)
Spouse: Marcia Leypoldt Bray
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Walter M. Williams High graduate, Burlington
Military history: 35th Infantry Regiment
Date of death: Monday, October 9, 1967
Death details: Died while on a search and destroy mission near Phuoc Son.
Cemetery: Person Memorial Park, Roxboro
Source: National Archives, Times-News, 35th Infantry Regiment Association
Robert H. Baggett, age 33, from Burlington, North Carolina, Alamance county.
Parents: Joseph W. Baggett
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, March 16, 1962
Death details: Among 93 soldiers aboard a transport plane on a “secret mission” to Vietnam. Wreaths Across America in 2021: “Very little is known about what happened to the plane and its passengers, and due to the circumstance surrounding this mission, the names of those lost have not yet been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.”
Cemetery: A memorial honoring the lives lost was dedicated in 2021 in Columbia Falls, Maine
Source: Atlanta Counstitution (1962), MauiNow (2021), UPI (1962), Frederick News (1962)