Thirteen casualties have the home city of record attributed to Story county in service records. Of these, 12 were clearly Story County, one had relatively minor links to Story and is more accurately attributible to Nebraska. There were three not attributed to Story County which had strong local links. One was correctly attributed to Boone county and another to California, but both had strong links to Story County. Another death was attributed to Arkansas which actually had stronger links to Story county. All sixteen are included below.
Information about Vietnam casualties can be found in a number of sources. The government site archive.gov has detailed records and links are provided for each casualty below. Another popular site is "The Virtual Wall" which presents online information about the service members who are found on the Vietnam Veteran's memorial in Washington, D.C. Links are included for each casualty below.
Clicking on the service member's name will take you to the obiturary for that person.
| Name (Obituary Link) |
See Note |
Service | Rank | Born | Died | Town | Virtual Wall Link Archive.gov | Link Cemetery |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Evan ANTILL | Army | PFC | June 25, 1945 | December 28, 1967 | Huxley | Virtual Wall (Antill) | Archive.gov (Antill) | Palestine Cemetery, Huxley | |
| Gary Wayne BARTMESS | Army | SP5 | February 26, 1946 | October 22, 1970 | Nevada | Virtual Wall (Bartmess) | Archive.gov (Bartmess) | Nevada Municipal Cemetery, Nevada | |
| Larry Dean BLEEKER | Marine Corps | 2LT | June 22, 1943 | October 26, 1967 | Ames | Virtual Wall (Bleeker) | Archive.gov (Bleeker) | Ames Municipal Cemetery, Ames | |
| Richard Russell BUTTRY | [1] [5] | Marine Corps | LCPL | January 31, 1949 | November 18, 1970 | Anaheim, CA | Virtual Wall (Buttry) | Archive.gov (Buttry) | Westminster Memorial Park, Westminster, California |
| Dick E CUFF | Army | SP4 | April 16, 1947 | March 20, 1968 | Maxwell | Virtual Wall (Cuff) | Archive.gov (Cuff) | Maxwell Cemetery, Maxwell | |
| Dennis Dean FERGUSON | [1] [2] | Marine Corp | CAPT | October 7, 1939 | March 20, 1966 | Boone, Iowa | Virtual Wall (Ferguson) | Archive.gov (Ferguson) | Paton Cemetery, Greene County, Iowa |
| Chuck Herbert GRAHAM | [3] | Army | CPL | January 22, 1948 | February 4, 1968 | West Memphis, AR | Virtual Wall (Graham) | Archive.gov (Graham) | Nevada Municipal Cemetery, Nevada |
| Philip Boyd JONES | Marine Corp | 2LT | September 8, 1947 | January 28, 1969 | Slater | Virtual Wall (Jones) | Archive.gov (Jones) | Bethlehem Cemetery, Slater | |
| James Alan LASCHE | Army | PFC | May 23, 1947 | February 6, 1967 | Ames | Virtual Wall (Lasche) | Archive.gov (Lasche) | Ames Municipal Cemetery, Ames | |
| James Lee Jr MERRICK | Navy | LT | September 21, 1943 | October 3, 1968 | Ames | Virtual Wall (Merrick) | Archive.gov (Merrick) | Ames Municipal Cemetery, Ames | |
| David Wendell MYERS | [4] | Marine Corp | CAPT | July 7, 1938 | November 20, 1968 | Ames | Virtual Wall (Myers) | Archive.gov (Myers) | Rose Hill Cemetery, Albion, Nebraska |
| Jon Owen OSHEIM | Army | PFC | April 26, 1943 | January 16, 1969 | Story City | Virtual Wall (Osheim) | Archive.gov (Osheim) | Fairview Cemetery, Story City | |
| David L PEARSON | [1] | Army | SP4 | July 24, 1946 | January 5, 1967 | Maxwell | Virtual Wall (Pearson) | Archive.gov (Pearson) | Graceland Cemetery, Knoxville, Iowa |
| Stephen Abram RUSHING | [1] | Army | SGT | November 26, 1949 | July 30, 1970 | Ames | Virtual Wall (Rushing) | Archive.gov (Rushing) | Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Tampa, Florida |
| Edward W STRAIN | Air Force | SSG | July 17, 1945 | April 10, 1970 | Story City | Virtual Wall (Strain) | Archive.gov (Strain) | Fairview Cemetery, Story City | |
| Richard Mark WELCH | [1] | Air Force | 1LT | April 12, 1944 | October 2, 1968 | Maxwell | Virtual Wall (Welch) | Archive.gov (Welch) | Graceland Cemetery, Knoxville, Iowa |
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