Community Remembrance
Photos from Ferndale Cemetery in Johnstown New York on a wet day before Memorial Day 2025
Pictured rain drops on a memorial “Dedicated to the memory of the Veterans of Fulton County” erected in 1947. Among the heroes buried at Ferndale is Orson Harold Case of Johnstown who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1966. Born on May 26th 1941, Corporal Case’s heavenly birthday fittingly falls on Memorial Day this year. He would have been 84 years old.
Case enlisted in the US Marine Corps in 1963 and was a rifleman with the 1st Marine Division, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines, E Company when killed in action on July 15, 1966 at twenty five years old in northern Quang Tri Province. Corporal Case, may your sacrifice, story, and family and loved ones you left behind never be forgotten by your community. Cpl. Chase is also honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. on Panel 9E, Line 21. Additionally, he is remembered on the virtual Wall of Faces “a page dedicated to honoring and remembering every person whose name is inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial”. The virtual wall can be found at vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces.
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