United States Military Academy Class of 1959

Proudly Remembers Our Fallen Classmate

U .S. Air ForceCaptain
Richard LeBrou Whitesides

Born on January 14, 1937

Killed in Action in Vietnam on March 26, 1964

“ Grip hands, though it be from the shadows

While we swear as you did of yore

Or living or dying to honor

The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps.”

Done at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. on the eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand and four; and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-eighth; and of our Alma Mater the two hundred and second.