David L. Hanson, age 23, from South Dakota, Perkins county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Wednesday, April 19, 1989
Death details: Killed in accidental explosion aboard the USS Iowa just off Puerto Rico
Source: Iowa Daily Press, UPI
Gordon Joseph Lippman, age 40, from Perkins County Lemmon, South Dakota .
Parents: Harold G. Lippman
Spouse: Married
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, December 11, 1965
Death details: Gordon often wrote his family from Vietnam but late in 1965 said he wouldn’t be able to write for about a week. He was going out with his men to fight the Viet Cong. The next word received was a notice he was killed in action December 11. The family at first struggled with where to bury his remains, as they wanted him close to home but he was a soldier entitled to the highest honors. The answer was found in the pocket of an extra dress uniform left at home. The note said Arlington National.
Cemetery: Arlington National
Source: National Archives, Rapid City Journal (1965)
Clarence Byron Stanley, age 21, from South Dakota, Perkins county.
Service era: World War II
Military history: Purple Heart
Date of death: Tuesday, August 24, 1943
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Memorialized in Black Hills National
Source: National Archives, grave marker