[brazzaville]

Good evening.

My first platoon leader, 1st LT John Lattin was a VMI graduate.

He was a superb officer for the 3 months I knew him. He was killed 12/15/1967 after a long fight between the 12 man team he was leading and an enemy reinforced platoon. The pointman of the reaction force sent to relieve them shot him by mistake. It wasn't the poor grunt's fault, just bad luck on a bad day. So much of life in the '60s seems to have been about luck.

Michael Frazier

[CatoRenasci]

I didn't know him, but I vaguely remember the flag at half-staff after he was killed - we did that in those days - and his name was read in the general orders.