Roger Nester

Roger Nester

Company C 1/22 Infantry

4th Infantry Division

KIA April 28, 1968

CPL - E4 - Army - Selective Service
Grade at loss: E3
Rank: Corporal
Note: Posthumous Promotion as indicated
MOS: 11B10: Infantryman
4th Infantry Division
23 year old Single, Caucasian, Male
Born on Oct 22, 1944
From MT STERLING, KENTUCKY
Length of service 1 year.
His tour of duty began on Dec 18, 1967
Casualty was on Apr 28, 1968
in KONTUM, SOUTH VIETNAM
HOSTILE, GROUND CASUALTY
ARTILLERY, ROCKET, or MORTAR
Body was recovered
Religion
BAPTIST

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Roger Nester was killed in action while on Operation Mac Arthur/Binh Tay,
during the Battle of Chu Moor Mountain, approximately 25 kilometers west of Polei Krong.

CPL Roger Nester's decorations

My name is Phillip Anthony Good. I became a member of the U.S. Army in August, 1966, from Circleville, Ohio.
In the years 1966 and 1968 I served as an honor guard from my unit at Ft. Knox, Kentucky.

I was a Specialist 5th Class (E-5) in the spring of 1968 and I was serving on our honor guard unit for military funerals
in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.
I was the ranking pallbearer for the funeral of Cpl. Roger Nester---giving the commands to the other pallbearers;
folding the American flag and presenting it to the Army captain in charge of our honor guard.

I remember going to the home of Cpl. Nester...the funeral and the burial on a hill behind his home...the ceremony at the burial site
and the six of us pallbearers lowering Cpl. Nester's casket into the ground.
Now, at age 52 and a resident of Columbus, Ohio, I have always considered it to be the honor of my life to have served
in that capacity for Cpl. Nester and the other soldiers we buried in 1967 and 1968.
I have always thought that it could have been so easily that I was the one to die serving my country in Viet Nam
and the soldier that I was buring could have been the honor guard for me.
We were all just kids with our entire lives ahead of us. So many lives that were yet to be lived...
Cpl. Roger Nester and the other's who sacrificed and died for our country will always be a part of my life.

Phillip Anthony Good
Columbus, Ohio
(SP/5, HQ & HQ Battery, 3rd Howitzer Battalion, 3rd Artillery, 1967 - 1968)

Posted by: Phillip Anthony Good
Email: Tony4765@webtv.net
Relationship: U.S. ARMY 1966 - 1968
Wednesday, March 1, 2000

VVMF website

Roger Nester was killed in action during the Battle for Chu Moor mountain.
The website is grateful to John McKee and Charlie "Doc" Shyab
for contributing the rubbings they took of all the names
of the 1st Battalion Killed In Action during the battle for Chu Moor.

Roger is buried at Old Grassy Cemetery in Mize, KY

Grave of Roger Nester

Photo courtesy of Allison Ennis Assistant Director, Morgan County Public Library

Grave marker for Roger Nester

Photo courtesy of Allison Ennis Assistant Director, Morgan County Public Library

Church in Mize, Morgan County, Kentucky
where Roger Nester was buried

Photo courtesy of Allison Ennis Assistant Director, Morgan County Public Library

Church in Mize, Morgan County, Kentucky
where Roger Nester was buried

Photo courtesy of Allison Ennis Assistant Director, Morgan County Public Library

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