THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS – OCTOBER 30, 2007
SEE BELOW – Taken from a post on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website vvmf.org
RICHARD FLAGIELLO
At Flagiello’s funeral, the line of cars filled with mourners stretched on for blocks. “He had a bazillion friends,” his brother Joe Jr. said. Pfc. Flagiello was 19 when he was killed in an artillery attack in Tay Ninh province on May 12, 1969. He was born and raised in Southwest Philadelphia. He attended West Catholic High School but transferred to Monsignor Bonner High School his junior year. He worked as a laboratory technician at Smith, Kline & French, and had just purchased a 1967 Camaro, “his pride and joy,” before entering the Army in October 1968. He was survived by his parents and two brothers.
“In 1987, when Philadelphia’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated, the Daily News published a special section. In it, we briefly described each of the 630 who were thought to have died in the conflict.
Since then 16 more names have been added to the monument, men who’d been missed at that dedication. Today we honor them by telling their stories.”