Garry Kendell Cook
Military Data
MOS 11B10 Infantryman
LenSvc Less than one year
Unit A Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
Casualty Data
Start Tour Saturday, 7 January 1967
Incident Thursday, 16 February 1967
Died of Wounds Tuesday, 28 February 1967
Age at Loss 19
Remains Body Recovered
Location Binh Duong, South Vietnam
Type Hostile, Died Of Wounds
Reason Other Explosive Device – Ground Casualty
Vietnam Wall Panel 15E Line 114
HE GAVE HIS TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW
Son of Owen Thomas & Ida June Johnson Cook.
Garry’s death notice was clipped from the Knoxville Journal by my grandmother, Della Jane McBee Burnett of Sharps Chapel
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Parents
Owen Thomas Cook 1921 – 1998
Ida June Johnson Cook 1925 – 1995
Burial
Johnson Cemetery, Sharps Chapel, Union County, Tennessee
- Rank: Private First Class
- Date of birth: 4 May 1947
- Date of death: 28 February 1967
- County: Union
- Hometown: Sharps Chapel
- Service Branch: Army
- Division/Assignment: 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
- Conflict: Vietnam
- Burial/Memorial Location: Johnson Cemetery, Sharps Chapel, Union County, TN
- Location In Memorial: Pillar XXIV, Middle Panel
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