Russell David Watts, age 20, from Cottage Hills, Illinois, Madison county.
Parents: Earl J. Watts
Service era: Vietnam
Schools: Civic Memorial High (1968)
Date of death: Sunday, May 24, 1970
Death details: Hostile, killed in South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1970)
Richard Finisa Moody, age 18, from Maison County Cottage Hills, Illinois .
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Monday, December 20, 1965
Death details: Died in a hospital in the Philippines from wounds received in Vietnam.
Cemetery: Short
Source: National Archives, Alton Evening Telegraph (1965)
Robert Lee Brewster, age 19, from Madison County Cottage Hills, Illinois .
Parents: James Brewster Sr.
Service era: Korea
Schools: East Alton-Wood River High
Date of death: Saturday, July 8, 1950
Death details: On March 28, 2025, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Cpl. Robert Lee Brewster, missing from the Korean War. Brewster entered the U.S. Army from Illinois and served in L Company, 3rd Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On July 8, 1950, he was reported missing in action after a battle near Cheonan, South Korea. He was not reported as a prisoner of war and remained unaccounted for following the conflict. On Aug. 13, 1951, U.S. personnel recovered a set of remains from an isolated grave in the area where Brewster was lost. The remains could not be identified with the technology available at the time and were transferred to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. In October 2019, DPAA proposed a plan to disinter 652 Korean War Unknowns for further study. Scientists used modern forensic techniques to associate Brewster with the set of remains recovered near Cheonan in 1951. He is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Alton Evening Telegraph (1954)