US PARAS 2 Pogue, Michael Alan

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Pogue​

• FORENAME

Michael Alan​

• UNIT

506 Infantry Regiment (Airmobile) (Company A,2 Bn)​

• RANK

Private First Class​

• NUMBER

18909805​

• DATE OF DEATH

31st January 1968​

• AGE

19​

• GRAVESITE

Colusa Community Cemetery,Colusa,Colusa County,California​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

from Colusa,California​

born 12.10.1948 Butte County,California​

son of Gloria Pogue​

single​

1 year service​

2 Bn Basic Training Brigade,Fort Lewis 1966​

8 Bn 3 Advanced Infantry Training Brigade,Fort Gordon 1967​

4 Airborne Training Bn,Fort Benning 1967​

506 IR (HHC,2 Bn + Company E,2 Bn) 1967​

506 IR (Company A,2 Bn) 1967-68​

KIA Bien Hoa Province,South Vietnam​

Vietnam Veterans Memorial,Washington,D.C. Panel 36E Line 31​

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[M Brown]

Michael Alan Pogue was a really good guy. He was a Junior when I met him. He gave this lowly freshman a ride to high school on mornings when he saw me walking. We talked about normal things. I admired him. I was hugely sadden when word came of his death. I would go on to enlist. Went to Fort Lewis for basic, Fort Gordon for AIT, and later to the area around Bien Hoa. I think of him every year on this the eve of his passing. The memory of the sacrifice and the lost benefit he would have made to the world and the world he would have built around him, disappoints. Lest we forget.