Raymond, Don - From Ontario OR who
served with HQ Co. (RECON PLT)
& S-5 from 65-67
Hello Mr. Fred Deverse.
“I am writing to you on behalf of
my father Sgt. Donald W. Raymond. He
passed away in March of this year.
(2022)
He was a member the 5th Infantry
Regiment Association and my mother
asked that I let you know of his passing
to maybe honor him in some way in the Bobcat Bulletin.
From my understanding my father
enlisted into the United States Army in
1964 and served time in Korea and a
tour in Vietnam in 1966.
He was wounded during that tour in
Vietnam upon a track, manning the machine gun. Though his wounds healed,
the experience was with him till the end.
He was a kind man and a good husband and father in spite of his troubles
and I wonder if his experience made him
the morning person he was.
He now rests in Boise, Idaho at the
Idaho State Veterans Cemetery. With a
cross on his marker that reads:
DONALD W. RAYMOND
SGT
ARMY
VIETNAM
JUL 30 1943
MAR 15 2023
BSM PH
HE WILL BE MISSED
Thank you, Matt Raymond”