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WE REMEMBER
Killed In Action, Missing In Action, & Died In Service
SP4
Armando Tesillo
SUMMARY
SP4 Tesillo died in South Vietnam on 1/31/1966 during the Vietnam War - Battle for Cu Chi as a member of Bravo Company . The soldier's injury type or status was recorded as 'Other Explosive Device'. Tesillo originated from Los Angeles, California .
DETAILS
On January 31, 1966, a booby trap was detonated killing two men from Company B, 1st Bn(M), 5th Infantry. The event emotionally jolted some the men of the company and impressed upon them that this was the real thing. Not training, not practice. Soldiers get horribly wounded and disfigured in wartime. Soldiers die in wartime! These were people you knew, if only by sight. One moment they are laughing, talking, breathing, living and the next moment they are very horribly dead. How thin and delicate the thread between life and death is, was a lesson soon to be indelibly implanted in the consciousness of the soldiers of the battalion. Some wondered who would be next.