Man who helped get Vietnam wall built found dead

myway.com ^ | January 4, 2011 | By RANDALL CHASE

[Albion Wilde]

DOVER, Del. (AP) - A military expert who served three Republican presidents and helped get the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built as part of his dedication to those who fought in that war was found dead in a landfill, and authorities are trying to piece together when he was last seen alive.

The body of John Wheeler III, 66, was uncovered Friday when a garbage truck emptied its contents at the Cherry Island landfill in Wilmington...

[Albion Wilde]

Shocking and sad...

[Christian Engineer Mass]

Wow this is huge. There must be so much to this story.

[BykrBayb]

OMG! Prayers up.

[Responsibility2nd]

Is this the same story that was posted 3-4 times yesterday?

This guy was a former Bush (W.) aide.

[Albion Wilde]

Unthinkable. He was a friend of a friend of mine and very well regarded. My money is on the New Jersey couple with whom they are having a property dispute. Sounds like an episode of The Sopranos.

[Albion Wilde]

Is this the same story that was posted 3-4 times yesterday?

I was unaware of that. Thanks for the heads up.

[MarkLevinFan]

It’s hard to tell. There hasn’t been much information released, yet.

[nmh]

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Wheeler followed in his decorated father’s footsteps and attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. After graduating in 1966, in the midst of the Vietnam War, he served five years in the Army, including as a staff officer at the Pentagon, and retired from the military in 1971.

In later years, Wheeler, as special assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon during the George W. Bush administration, helped develop the Air Force Cyber Command. A citation for his service in 2008 said Wheeler recognized that the military needed to combat the growing vulnerability of U.S. weapon systems to cyber intrusions, according to his biography.

Longtime friend and fellow West Point graduate Richard Radez said that in an e-mail the day after Christmas, Wheeler wrote he believed the nation wasn’t sufficiently prepared for cyber warfare.

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Wheeler’s military career included serving in the office of the Secretary of Defense and writing a manual on the effectiveness of biological and chemical weapons. He recommended that the U.S. not use biological weapons. Wheeler earned a master’s at Harvard Business School and a law degree from Yale, according to his biography.

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Wheeler also was concerned about getting ROTC programs restored at prestigious universities such as Harvard and Stanford. Schools dropped the programs as a result of Vietnam.

Robert Meadus, 85, who lives near Wheeler’s New Castle home, described the death as “exceedingly weird.”

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Yes, this was a homicide.

What a sad ending to a good person.

[Responsibility2nd]

 

• Ex-Bush aide killed, dumped in Del. River landfill

  51 posts - 41 authors - Last post: 21 hours ago

  John Parsons Wheeler 3d, a Vietnam veteran officer who served in three GOP Presidential administrations, and who chaired the committee that raised funds ...
  www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2650913/posts

• Cops: Former Bush Aide Murdered, Found in Landfill

  13 posts - 12 authors - Last post: 20 hours ago

  John P. Wheeler III, 66, was found dead in a Delaware landfill, and his death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del., police. They are asking the public ...
  freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2650936/posts

• Body of US military expert found in Del. landfill

  42 posts - 27 authors - Last post: 16 hours ago

  John Wheeler III, 66, was last seen Dec. 28 on an Amtrak train from Washington to Wilmington. His body was found three days later, on New Year's Eve, ...
  www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2651030/posts

[GraceG]

I hope they find out who did this and why. And then nail the SOB who did this to nearest wall.

[onedoug]

Pictured and featured in Rick Atkinson´s The Long Gray Line: The American Journey Of West Point´s Class of 1966.

Very sad. RIP.

[Albion Wilde]

Thanks for the links.

[rahbert]

was it an eye job? did he have a rat in his mouth?

[left that other site]

I have been to the Wall many times.

My heart aches over this strange and sad story.

[CaptainK]

I heard a mention about a property dispute on the news but they didn’t elaborate. Do you have any information about it?

[Albion Wilde]

There is a lot of info at the links in post 9.

[Albion Wilde]

LucyT sent a link leading to this extraordinary development in the Wheeler mystery:

Top US Official Murdered After Arkansas Weapons Test Causes Mass Death

This story has everything in it: Putin, biological weapons, Arkansas, the military, the environment and a body in a New Jersey landfill.

FReepmail me if you wish to be added/removed from followup pings on the murder case of John P. Wheeler .

[GoCards]

Causes mass death in Arkansas like birds and fishs??? Please keep me posted!! Thanks for the info.

[Gondring]

Oh great....now FR is a Russia propaganda mouthpiece!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!