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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Jeri Calvin Seeman.

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JERI CALVIN SEEMAN

Sergeant · U.S. Army

September 24, 1946 – December 7, 1967

Service record

Jeri Calvin Seeman, of San Bernardino, California, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 7, 1967, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 31E, Line 60 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 31E · Line 60

Position of Panel 31E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
4 INF DIV
Born
September 24, 1946
Home of record
San Bernardino, California (San Bernardino County)

Casualty

Date of death
December 7, 1967
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

29 names on the Wall carry the date December 7, 1967. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 46 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 31E, Line 60

From San Bernardino

All 53 names from San Bernardino →

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.