On the occasion of your birthday and this being Fathers Day which most of your classmates were able to experience and grow to enjoy you made the ultimate sacrifice. GOD bless and keep you and your family close in His loving grace.
JOHN joined the Navy soon after graduation. He was one of the District Heights "boys". He became a Navy Hospital Corpsman and went to VietNam where he met an untimely death after being in country for just over one month. RIP John.
Joseph Herring
One can find John Pender on the Vietnam Wall site: http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/40069/JOHN-F-PENDER
JOHN FRANCIS PENDER is honored on Panel 27E, Row 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Wall Name: JOHN F PENDER
Date of Birth: 6/18/1946
Date of Casualty: 9/24/1967
Home of Record: DISTRICT HEIGHTS
County of Record: PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
State: MD
Branch of Service: NAVY
Rank: HN
Panel/Row: 27E, 6
Casualty Province: QUANG TRI
Richard Smialek
On the occasion of your birthday and this being Fathers Day which most of your classmates were able to experience and grow to enjoy you made the ultimate sacrifice. GOD bless and keep you and your family close in His loving grace.
Michael Scalise
JOHN joined the Navy soon after graduation. He was one of the District Heights "boys". He became a Navy Hospital Corpsman and went to VietNam where he met an untimely death after being in country for just over one month. RIP John.