22 Dec 2001 Ken and Paul Olenzuk are brothers, natives of Detroit. Lance Corporal Ken Olenzuk died on 25 December 1967 of wounds received earlier. Private First Class Paul Olenzuk was killed in action on 10 August 1968. "Not for fame or reward, not for place or for rank, but in simple obedience to duty, as they understood it." Confederate Memorial Arlington National Cemetery A memorial from a friend. E-mail address is not available.

 

A Note from The Virtual Wall Five men from the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry, died in an action in Thua Thien Province on 10 August 1968: SP4 George E. Valker, Minot, ND, A Company SP4 Raymond G. Kriskovich, Butte, MT, B Company SP4 Michael B. Snyder, Ferguson, MO, E Company PFC Paul G. Olenzuk, Detroit, MI, A Company PFC Albert R. Haynes, Philadelphia, PA, E Company Eight months earlier, Lance Corporal Kenny Olenzuk had been fatally wounded in Thua Thien Province. This memorial used to stand in Utica, Michigan. It carries the inscription TO THE MEN AND WOMEN IN THIS COMMUNITY WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES THAT WE MIGHT REMAIN A FREE NATION The memorial lists the names of 17 men who died in Vietnam. Paul Olenzuk's name is on the memorial; Kenny Olenzuk's name is not. Photo courtesy of Mark Hodgins.

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