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Welcome to the Virginia War Memorial’s Virginia Heroes database. This online resource is a comprehensive list of Veterans both in Virginia and across the country who wish to be represented.

This list includes all of Virginia’s Heroes who made the supreme sacrifice from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf and whose names are etched in stone and glass on the walls of the Shrine of Memory. Their records are indicated by a gold star.

Staffers and volunteers at the War Memorial continue to research the names and personal histories of Virginia’s fallen. As we learn more about these brave men and women, we will continue to add information to this database so that their stories may never be forgotten.

To submit your personal service record information, or that of any other Virginia veteran, living or deceased, please use the Veteran Updates form and submit to the Memorial for inclusion.

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Charles Robert Kesterson

Major, Army

Born: February 9, 1936
Hometown: Rockbridge County, VA
Casualty Date: May 4, 1966
Died In: South Vietnam

Major Kesterson graduated from Wilson Memorial High School in Augusta County in 1953 and from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1958 with a civil engineering degree; he also held a master’s degree from Stanford University. He worked for the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in California before entering the Army in …

Harold K. Ketner

Warrant Officer, Army

Born: March 28, 1947
Hometown: Norfolk
Casualty Date: March 9, 1967
Died In: Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam

WO Ketner served with the 118th AHC, 145th Aviation Battalion, 12th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade.

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Name

Hometown

Branch of Service

Served In

Birth Date

Casualty Date

Harold A. Kepnes

Lieutenant, Navy

Fenia P. Kerley

Private, Army

Curtis P. Kern

Corporal, Marine Corps

John Austin Kern, Jr.

Private First Class, Army

Cornelius R. Kerns

Second Lieutenant, Army

Budd M. Kerr

Technician, Fourth Grade, Army

Roy E. Kerry

Other

Edgar Orlin Kersh

First Lieutenant, Army

Charles Kertesz

Staff Sergeant, Army

James O. Kesler

Private, Army

Mark Kessinger

Seaman, Second Class, Navy

Charles Robert Kesterson

Major, Army

Harold K. Ketner

Warrant Officer, Army

William Parham Kevan, Jr.

Lieutenant Colonel, Army

Carl R. Keyser

Private, Army

Elbert Perry Keziah

Private First Class, Army

Virgil D. Kibler

Private First Class, Army

Luther Wade Kiblinger

Army

Kenneth Kernschan Kidd

Signalman, First Class, Navy

Leonard W. Kidd

Specialist 5, Army