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Photographer: J. J. Prats
Taken: April 8, 2017
Caption: PFC Robert Hoyt Ruggles
Additional Description: C Co., 4th BN, 12th Infantry, 119th Infantry Brigade, United States Army.

August 06, 1948 to January 21, 1970

Buster was born in Charlottesville. He graduated from Rock Hill Academy in 1966. He married Linda McAllister and they had a son, Timothy. While employed by Michie Printing, he was drafted in the army. September 1964 he arrived in Vietnam. In 1970, his work party was assigned to unload a truck when a case of 81mm mortar shells was accidentally dropped. It exploded killing the entire work party. Jam Scruggs, the founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C. said that this event inspired him to build the National Vietnam Memorial.

Buster was awarded the Bronze Star, the National Defense Service, the Vietnam Service, and the Vietnam Campaign Medals. He is buried in Monticello Memory Gardens.
Submitted: April 15, 2017, by J. J. Prats of Powell, Ohio.
Database Locator Identification Number: p380272
File Size: 1.314 Megabytes

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