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Lester J Baird 1945 - 2009

Lester J Baird of Trenton, Grundy County, MO was born on May 23, 1945, and died at age 64 years old on October 3, 2009. Lester Baird was buried at Iowa Veterans Cemetery At Van Meter Section 5 Site 53 34024 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Adel, Ia.
Lester J Baird
Trenton, Grundy County, MO 64683
May 23, 1945
October 3, 2009
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  • 05/23
    1945

    Birthday

    May 23, 1945
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: SP5 Wars/Conflicts: Vietnam
  • 10/3
    2009

    Death

    October 3, 2009
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    Iowa Veterans Cemetery At Van Meter Section 5 Site 53 34024 Veterans Memorial Drive, in Adel, Ia 50003
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In 1945, in the year that Lester J Baird was born, on June 22nd, the Battle of Okinawa ended. A joint Army and Marine campaign, supported by the Navy, the Battle of Okinawa went on for 82 days. The last Japanese resistance on Okinawa was defeated. 4,907 Navy, 4,675 Army, and 2,938 Marine Corps personnel were killed in the battle on the US side. It is estimated that 110,071 on the Japanese side were killed - the estimate includes Okinawan citizens who were pressed into service and includes children. With the win of Okinawa, the United States gained an important base of operations in the Pacific.
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In 1964, he was 19 years old when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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