Capt Thomas Curtis Metsker Veteran

Birth: 20 May 1939
Linton, Greene County, Indiana, USA
Death: 14 Nov 1965 (aged 26)
Vietnam
Burial: Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot: Section 35, Site 4207
Memorial ID: 8845478 View Source

Tom Metsker was a 1961 graduate of The Citadel. Tom met Catherine LaPlante on a blind date and they fell madly in love and got married. Their baby girl, Karen Doranne Metsker, was just 17 months old when Tom was killed in the Ia Drang Valley. He is featured in the book and movie "We Were Soldiers Once and Young."

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