View a eulogy for Henry Mershon Spengler, USMA '68, who passed away on April 5, 1972.
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Henry Mershon Spengler
West Point, 1968
Be Thou At Peace
Posted by Michael Robert Patterson on May 16, 1999:
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The son of a career Army officer, he was born on October 26, 1946 and graduated from West Point in June 1968. He was killed-in-action on April 5, 1972 while serving with the 101st Airborne Division in the Republic of Vietnam. His body was not recovered and identified until 1989 and he was then buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery beside the gravesite of his father, Henry Mershon Spengler II, who had been killed in the crash of a military aircraft in Germany, and his his grandfather, Henry C. Spengler, who was killed in action in World War I. |
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