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Casualty Info
Home Town Kankakee
Last Address Monroe
Casualty Date May 12, 1967
Cause KIA-Killed in Action
Reason Gun, Small Arms Fire
Location Binh Duong (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Mulhearn Memorial Park Cemetery - Monroe, Louisiana
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Hymn to the Fallen performed by the 451st Army Band.
Comments/Citation:
Monroe Man Killed In Vietnam Fight
"I'm over here for a purpose to keep Communism from spreading. If we weren't here they'd just keep coming and coming."
These were the words of Specialist 4th John F. Carmack in a letter to his wife just weeks before he was killed by enemy small arms fire Thursday near the Cambodian border in Vietnam.
"I wrote him telling him I didn't understand the war, and that I missed him," his tearful wife Rebecca said, "but he wrote back and balled me out for questioning the war which he so strongly believed in."
Residing at 211 80th St. in Monroe, Carmack and his young wife have a year old daughter, Tammy Ann.
Carmack enlisted in the Army the summer of 1966 and had been in Vietnam since October. During that time he had been wounded twice and received the Army's Purple Heart.
Taking part in fighting in the Mekong Delta and in recent action near the Cambodian Border. Carmack's wife said her 22 year old husband never complained about the situation.
Born in Kankakee, ILL and living most of his life in Monroe.
Carmack was a graduate of Chamberlin Hunt Military Academy in Mississippi.
Funeral arrangements were incomplete Saturday but will be under the direction of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Monroe.
Other survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs. Jack Carmack of 506 Lakeshore Dr. Monroe and two brothers, Scott Carmack and Chris Carmack, both of Monroe.
DOB 13 Dec 1944 Kankakee, ILL
KIA Bihn Duong, Vietnam/ Gun Small arms
John Edward Carmack, was proceeded in death by his Brother, Malcom, he is survived by his Mother, Fairy Jane Carmack, his Father, Jack Carmack, two Brothers, Scott and Chris Carmack. Information from his Niece, Julie Carmack [email protected]
SN: RA 18722044
SSN: 436-70-2786 Louisianna (1963)
Religion: Methodist (also Evangelical United Bretren)
