Re: Looking for Reasoner (Frank S?)
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Looking for Reasoner
Cheri Reasoner 2/01/05
Cheri,
You may be looking for Frank S. Reasoner, for whom a destroyer was named after his heroic death [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Reasoner_(FF-1063)]
He was a native of Spokane, Washington, according to the Wikipedia article. Plus, there's this:
31 January 1967
Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas), No. 246, Section 1, page 2
Highest Honor Goes to Widow of Marine Hero
WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor today to a Marine lieutenant killed in a third attempt to rescue a wounded comrade in Vietname.
The lieutenant was Frank S. Reasoner of Kellogg, Idaho. The comrade was James G Shockley, 22, Darby, Mont, a radioman. The action took place on a dusty dirt road sough of Da Nang on a hot July day in 1965 during a reconnaissance patrol.
Reasoner's widow, Sally Jo, received the medal as their three-year-old son Michael stood quietly by.
"He was a good Marine," Shockley told newsmen after the ceremony in Nitze's office. "I didn't think he was going to make it. . . I told him not to come and said I'd try and crawl. . .
But he said there wasn't time," Shockley said. "He came anyway." Shockley is now a history student at the University of Montana.