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JJ_BPK
04-05-2022, 17:59
With Hank's permission, I will post one story of a Gold Star Family


Captain Harry Griffith Cramer Jr.,
died October 21, 1957, near Nha Trang, South Vietnam

Hank Cramer:

It's National Gold Star Spouses Day. My mother, Anne Cramer, with us kids and our nanny at the Naha City Zoo, Okinawa on Sunday, October 20, 1957. My father was killed in Vietnam the next day. My mother taught school full-time at Fort Buckner, both my sisters attended school, but I was still at home. So Imiko, the nanny and housekeeper, had a VERY challenging job riding herd on me all day. I was very sad to part ways with her.





CPT Harry Griffith Cramer Jr.
Birth 24 May 1926, Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death 21 Oct 1957 (aged 31) Vietnam

Burial: United States Military Academy Post Cemetery West Point, Orange County, New York, USA Show Map Plot Section VII Row G Grave 316 Memorial ID 8602977

link: West Point BIO (https://www.west-point.org/users/usma1946/15816/)

Badger52
04-06-2022, 10:05
RIP and Salute.
The photo of this Gold Star family says more than I ever could.