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KENNETH WAYNE SEIDEL
Corporal · U.S. Army
February 6, 1948 – June 28, 1968
Service recordKenneth Wayne Seidel, of Wayne City, Illinois, served as a Corporal in the U.S. Army. He died on June 28, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54W, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54W · Line 13
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
- Corporal (CPL)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- February 6, 1948
- Home of record
- Wayne City, Illinois (Wayne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
30 names on the Wall carry the date June 28, 1968; four of them were lost in Long An Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54W, Line 13
- WADE LAMAR BROOMEPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- LORENZO RAMIREZ JRPrivate First Class · June 28, 1968
- HECTOR SANTIAGO-COLONSpecialist Four · June 28, 1968
- YANCEY SMITH JRPrivate · June 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN HOUSTON BAKERCorporal · Panel 54W, Line 8
- DAVID RONALD BURKES JRCorporal · Panel 54W, Line 8
- WADE LAMAR BROOMEPrivate First Class · Panel 54W, Line 13
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.