Burial Site: SFNC, Section O, Site 584

Ramon Leyba

Raymond joined the Navy in March of 1967.  He had been in Vietnam for only two and half months. On June the 7th 1968 he was involved in a battle with North Vietnamese, a fellow Marine fell wounded, Raymond was a Navy Corpsman, ran out to tend to the Marine, when he was fatally shot. Raymond wanted to become a doctor after his service in Vietnam.

In his senior year at Albuquerque High in 1965 he won the very first La Luz Trail Run, he was 17 years old.1

 

Notes:

  1. “Navy War Victim WAS Track Star, Honor Student,” Albuquerque Tribune, 17 June 1968, Newspaper.com

 

Prepared by, Steve Martinez Ph.D., Santa Fe Community College

  

Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Legacy Memorial, Find Your Veteran

https://www.vlm.cem.va.gov/RAMONLEYBA/06A7016