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Benjamin F. Daniels
1943–2019
Sergeant
Fire team leader, Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry; sergeant, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Vietnam)
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named in VA #VeteranOfTheDay (30 Oct 2019) among Vietnam decorations. Do not invent an oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named as a Bronze Star in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay profile. Do not invent a Combat “V” or oak-leaf count without a matching official device list on this page.
Public sources
Benjamin F. Daniels’s Bronze Star and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his Vietnam service with the 101st Airborne Division. This decorations page records those two types from that VA list. It will not invent an Air Medal chip on this awards row even though the VA paragraph also names an Air Medal — this register’s decorations row is Purple Heart / Bronze Star Medal / Silver Star only.
Daniels enlisted in January 1968, served as a fire team leader in Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, and returned wounded. The VA profile is the published official naming of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart used here. No Silver Star is invented.
He is not yet on a war-roll essay. Sacramento Valley National Cemetery burial after his death on April 1, 2019, at age 75 is public fact. It is not printed here as a medal.
This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.
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