Rank/Branch: E3/US Marine
Corps
Unit: L/3rd Recon Battalion,
3rd Marine Division
Date of Birth: 11 May
1946
Home City of Record:
Carlisle PA
Loss Date: 18 August
1966
Country of Loss: South
Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 160338N
1081218E (AT819613)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body
Not Recovered
Category: 3
Acft/Vehicle/Ground:
Ground
Other Personnel in Incident:
(none missing)
SYNOPSIS:
Edward Rykoskey graduated from Carlisle High School in 1964, and joined
the Marine Corps rather than wait to be drafted. The second year of his
enlistment was to be spent in Vietnam, where he was shipped early in 1966.
On August 18, 1966, with four months of his tour left,
Edward served as the radio man for a reconnaissance patrol consisting of
four men which went out in the Da Nang area. Returning to Da Nang, the
patrol was ambushed. Three men survived, and reported that Edward Rykoskey
did not. Search parties were sent out to find Rykoskey's body, but after
three or four days, they stopped looking.
Edward was originally classified Killed In Action,
status changed to Missing In Action, and later back to Killed in Action.
Whether Rykoskey lived or died that day in August 1966
will not be known for certain until there is proof positive of his death
or survival. The U.S. and the Vietnamese have yet to determine the formula
which would successfully resolve the questions that linger about the nearly
2500 Americans who did not return from the war in Vietnam.
Tragically, there have been over 10,000 reports received
concerning Americans still alive in Southeast Asia, many in captivity.
While the rest of America tries to forget the war in Vietnam, these men,
and their friends and families cannot. We must bring them home. They are
America's sons.
No One Is Free When Others
Are Oppressed
It is the Soldier, not the press, that has given
us
freedom of the press.
It is the Soldier, not the poet, who has given us
freedom of speech.
It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer, who
has given us
the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the Soldier, not the lawyer, who has given
us
the right to a fair trial.
It is the Soldier who salutes the flag,
serves under the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.
Until
They're All Home . . .
Then I'll Leave It Alone . . .
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All . . .
The Honor of One is the Honor
of All . . .
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is not worth the effort to be found,
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have lost our National Honor . . .
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