I went through ROTC at the U of W with Dave.  He died just days
 before he was about to come home from Viet Nam. Like many in our class who went to Viet Nam and were killed, Dave never was 
able to fulfill his potential.

Died in Vietnam April 1966. Information about David can be found 
at The Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial website..https://www.thewall-usa.com.
 In the section of the website titled messages, I paraphrased the
message written by fellow Roosevelt alum, John NePage. I also 
incorporated information extracted from a fellow officer who was 
one of the few who last saw David alive.
 “A friend I will not forget---Dave and I were in school together from the 6th grade through high school. We served in Vietnam at the same time, he in the Army, I was in the USAF. He was billeted at the Hotel Victoria in downtown Saigon, a hotel that the US had taken over for housing. He was asleep in his hotel room when a grenade/bomb blew up in the room next to his.  He died a few days later in the hospital of severe head wounds.
 Dave gave his life to keep America free.”