[Loud Mime]

Robert Dean Stethem SW-2 (Diver), United States Navy

This young Navy diver was returning from an assignment in the Middle East when the commercial jet on which he was a passenger was hijacked by terrorists. He was shot to death, after being tortured, by the terrorists on June 15, 1985. He is buried in Section 59 of Arlington National Cemtery, near a number of other Americans who were victims of worldwide terrorism.

Stethem was targeted because he was part of the U.S. military. He was posthumously awarded a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. In 1995, the newly commissioned destroyer was named for him.

Source: Arlington Cemetery

The USS Stethem's Website

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thank you for posting that. Was this the diver who willingly gave his life that other Americans on that TWA flight be spared? What a great nation it is that produces Robert Stethems and that football player (whose name I cannot recall) who died in Afghanistan!