Jonathan E. Gierke, age 19, from Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Service era: Afghanistan
Date of death: Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Death details: Killed when the 7-ton truck he was traveling in rolled over outside of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Source: Military Times
Christopher Gabriel Patton, age 21, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, Gwinnett county.
Service era: Iraq
Parents: David and Melaine Patton
School: Central Gwinnett High (2005)
Military history: Company A, 2D Battalion, 5Th Cavalry, 1 Bct, Fort Hood, Tx
Date of death: Saturday, September 1, 2007
Death details: Baghdad, Iraq
Cemetery: Georgia National
Source: Department of Defense, findagrave.com
Donny Joe Braswell, age 19, from Lawrenceville, Georgia, Gwinett county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, July 10, 1970
Source: National Archives
Henry Nelson Pate, age 32, from Gwinnett County Lawrenceville, Georgia .
Spouse: Margie L. Pate
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Tuesday, November 28, 1950
Death details: On November 27, 1950, the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT), tasked with replacing the 5th Marine Regiment on the east side of the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea, arrived at the P’ungnyuri Inlet. That night, Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) launched a massive surprise attack against the soldiers and Marines at the inlet. The 31st RCT managed to repel the numerically superior CCF’s initial attack; however, the enemy continued to attack over the next two nights. On December 1, the 31st RCT began its withdrawal from the P’ungnyuri Inlet to Hagaru-ri. Sergeant Henry Nelson Pate, who joined the U.S. Army from Georgia, served with the Headquarters Battery, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 7th Infantry Division. He was killed in action on November 28, 1950, as his unit engaged the CCF around the battalion headquarters at the P’ungnyuri Inlet. Due to conditions on the battlefield and the need to evacuate wounded, his unit was unable to recover the bodies of their fallen. After the war, Sgt Pate’s remains were not identified among those returned to U.S. custody. Today, Sergeant Pate 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, Macon Telegraph (1950)