Donald Renay Workman

West Point, 1968

Be Thou At Peace

Posted by Michael S. McGill on December 16, 2005:

I went to Kirkwood High School with Don. We were good friends. He did not have time to participate in after school activities, because he held down two jobs to help support his mother. But we would go camping together, and to jazz concerts, and to watch the modified stock cars race at Valley Park. He loved his old car, and tinkered with it all the time. Kirkwood was a pretty idyllic place, an upper middle class suburb of St. Louis, where most high school grads went to college. But Don could not afford to go to college, so he went into the Army, where his commanding officer sensed his potential, sent him to West Point prep school in New Mexico, and then Don finally got to have the college experience he deserved. The Don I remember was high energy, cheerful, boisterous. Hardly a day goes by when I do not remember him, grieve for him, and rage against the war in which he died.

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