Oct 13
David H. McNerney Dies
Posted by Slobokan @ 19:15 · 102 words · print
David H. McNerney, a retired Army first sergeant who was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading soldiers out of a Viet Cong ambush in 1967, died of lung cancer on Oct. 10 at a veterans hospital in Houston. He was 79.
Sgt. McNerney was not supposed to be in Vietnam on March 22, 1967. At 35, he'd already served two tours in those jungles and had spent most of the previous year training young troops to go to war.
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His wife, the former Parmelia "Charlotte" Moeckel, died in 2002. Survivors include a brother and a sister.
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