Birthday of David Willis Terrell and Manolo Briones Agnes -- KIA Vietnam on the Fourth of July

Today is the birthday of two of the 167 American servicemen who died in Vietnam on a Fourth of July.

Marine Corporal David Willis Terrell, born Jan. 18, 1944, was killed in action by fragmentation wounds on the Fourth of July, 1966. He was among nine Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were killed in an ambush at My Loc. Corporal Terrell was 22 and unmarried. He is buried at Centuries Memorial Park in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Navy Electricians Mate Manolo Briones Agnes, 23, was born this date in 1948 and was from San Pablo City in the Philippines. He died in an accident on July 4, 1971 when struck by a South Vietnamese Navy ambulance near the Vietnamese Navy Dispensary at Cat Lo. He is one of 27 men in the American armed forces killed in Vietnam whose Home of Record is the Philippines. Many more men of Filipino descent who lived in the United States served in the war. A Facebook page dedicated to Filipinos who served in Vietnam can be found at https://www.facebook.com/FilipinosVietnamWarMilitaryService/timeline.