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Killed in Action on May 9, 1968, while serving with
Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division,
United States Army,
in the Republic of Vietnam.
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He, and others who attended
WESTERN HIGH SCHOOL,
Anaheim, California,
are remembered by their classmates
on the school's
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Robert Jacobs
rbtjacobs@earthlink.net
Friend and Classmate
Pasadena,CA
Steve Sommers was born in Beloit Wisconsin. He grew up in Orange County, California. He was a graduate of Western High School, Anaheim - class of 1965. In Jan. 1966 he entered into a 4 year apprenticeship in Sheet Metal at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Despite the vital work of servicing the fleet, he was not exempt from the draft. On Aug. 23 1967 he was inducted into the Army as an eleven bravo. He started his tour in Vietnam on Feb. 12, 1968. He served with Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division. On May 9, 1968 he was KIA in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam.
Friday, April 09, 1999
Grateful American
Fellow Californian
American Hero
Thank you for your ultimate sacrifice. Rest well brave soldier. You are not forgotten.
Sunday, May 09, 2004
doug snyder
c2555d@aol.com
FELLOW SOLDIER 25TH INF.
2555 MIDDLE WAY
EASTON, PA 18040 USA
NOT FORGOTTEN HERO
just to let you know that you are not forgotten, hero. thank you for your sacrifice. happy birthday. doug co. a ,222nd inf., 25th inf. div. 1968
Friday, July 02, 2004
ANONYMOUS AND GRATEFUL
SO YOUNG! SO BRAVE! HOW CAN IT BE THAT SOMEONE SO YOUNG CAN GIVE THEIR LIFE FOR FREEDOM AND SO FEW ACKNOWLEDGE HIS SACRIFICE. SOME OF US CARE. THANK YOU SEEMS SO INADEQUATE BUT IT'S ALL I HAVE.
Monday, April 24, 2006
09 May 2011 -- 43 years
It's been 43 years today. I think of you every year on May 9th. You were a fine man and a good soldier. Yesterday was Mother's Day -- I know they came to your home on Mother's Day 1968 to inform your family.
Posted by: Bob Jacobs
Email: rbtjacobs@hotmail.com
Relationship: We were high school classmates
Monday, May 9, 2011
We Remember
Steve is buried at Good Shepherd Cemetery in Huntington Beach, CA. PH
Never Forgotten
FOREVER REMEMBERED
"If you are able, save for them a place inside of you....and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go.....Be not ashamed to say you loved them....
Take what they have left and what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own....And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call the war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind...."
Quote from a letter home by Maj. Michael Davis O'Donnell
KIA 24 March 1970. Distinguished Flying Cross: Shot down and Killed while attempting to rescue 8 fellow soldiers surrounded by attacking enemy forces.
We Nam Brothers pause to give a backward glance, and post this remembrance to you, one of the gentle heroes lost to the War in Vietnam:
Slip off that pack. Set it down by the crooked trail. Drop your steel pot alongside. Shed those magazine-ladened bandoliers away from your sweat-soaked shirt. Lay that silent weapon down and step out of the heat. Feel the soothing cool breeze right down to your soul ... and rest forever in the shade of our love, brother.
From your Nam-Band-Of-Brothers
Posted by: Bill Nelson
Email: grite@yahoo.com
Relationship: NamVet 2/502 Inf 101 Abn 69-70
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Another Year
Today marks 36 years since Steve was KIA in Vietnam. I want those who visit to know that Steve is not forgotten. He lives in the memories of all the people who knew and loved him. His life was too short.
Here's to all who served with the 25th Division, Mechanized
Posted by: Bob Jacobs
Email: rbtjacobs@hotmail.com
Relationship: We were high school classmates
Sunday, May 9, 2004
Here's to you Steve
I remember Steve from Walker Jr. High School in La Palma CA, where we were sent the first year it was open, it was still unfinished and they only had seventh graders that year. He and I always seemed to end up in the same PE class. He was always a nice friendly kid, never talked a lot, and unlike me he never got into trouble. We went through Jr. High School and High School together and always said hi when passing in the halls but never became closer friends. I never saw him again once we graduated from High School. Steve I am sorry I never took the time to know you better. I still remember seeing your name in the LA Times in the column that stated Southland men lost in action
Posted by: Marvin Hahn
Email: tjhahn@hotmail.com
Relationship: We were high school classmates
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Biography of a friend
Steve Sommers was born in Beloit Wisconsin. He grew up in Orange County, California. He was a graduate of Western High School, Anaheim -- class of 1965. In Jan. 1966 he entered into a 4 year apprenticeship in Sheet Metal at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Despite the vital work of servicing the fleet, he was not exempt from the draft. On Aug. 23 1967 he was inducted into the Army as an “eleven bravo.” He started his tour in Vietnam on Feb. 12, 1968. He served with Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry, 25th Infantry Division. On May 9, 1968 he was KIA in the Mekong delta region of Vietnam. He is forever free
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