Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Kenneth Jerome Jackson, age 22, from Concord, North Carolina, Cabarrus county.
Service era: Gulf War
School: Northwest High (1987), Concord
Child: Cherie Jackson, 1
Date of death: Sunday, February 17, 1991
Death details: Died in Saudi Arabia when he lost control of the tractor-trailer truck he was driving and it crashed into another vehicle
Source: White House Commission on Remembrance, Department of Defense, Charlotte Observer
Joe Wofford Eubanks, age 25, from Concord, North Carolina, Cabarrus county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, June 2, 1972
Death details: Eubanks was flying as aircraft commander on an ARVN resupply run near Kontum. They came under heavy fire that shot out all cyclic control. As they went in they made a hard landing that put the rotor through the windshield in Eubanks lap. He had no visible injuries, but all attempts to release him failed due to the tangled wreckage and spreading fire. The A/C exploded and Eubanks burned to death in the wreckage
Cemetery: Oakwood Cemetery, Concord, North Carolina
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, The Citadel Class of 1969, Carolina Military Academy
Melvin Lee Weaks, age 21, from Concord, North Carolina, Cabarrus county.
Parents: John M Weaks
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Wednesday, August 18, 1971
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1971)