Carl Frederick Hynek III (1945-1967)

Born on August 14, 1945, Carl Hynek was from Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. He graduated from La Salle College High School in Philadelphia and entered Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1963 with the class of 1967. He became a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity during his two years but left the College in 1965.

He arrived in South Vietnam in July 4, 1967. Private First Class Hynek was killed in action on October 5, 1967 by automatic weapons fire while fighting as a parachute infantryman with the 101st Airborne in Quang Nam province. He received the posthumous promotion to the rank of corporal.

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Paul J. Neely (c.1945-1969)

A political science graduate of the class of 1967 at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Paul Neely served as a sophomore member of the Student Senate, was the president of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and played three years on the lacrosse team.

Neely was drafted in November 1967 and went to Vietnam in 1968 as a sergeant with the 1st Air Cavalry Division. He died in Vietnam on April 27, 1969 from wounds he had suffered a day earlier.

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