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Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970.
Troopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade, watch a UH-1D land, March 1970. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Pablo Isreal Seda.

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PABLO ISREAL SEDA

Private · U.S. Army

November 26, 1948 – September 15, 1970

Service record

Pablo Isreal Seda, of New York, New York, served as a Private in the U.S. Army. He died on September 15, 1970, in South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 66 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 7W · Line 66

Position of Panel 7W 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
Private (PVT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
173 AIRBORNE BDE
Born
November 26, 1948
Home of record
New York, New York (Kings County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 15, 1970
Age
21
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Infectious Disease

Context · from the records

What was happening

16 names on the Wall carry the date September 15, 1970. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 30 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 7W, Line 66

From New York

All 1370 names from New York →

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.