Young Americans from the Coachella Valley who made the supreme sacrifice in the Vietnam War and were killed in action included P.F.C. Dennis Read, Army Spl./4th Class Edwarxd Angiano Escobar, Army Cpl. Renaldo Olegania Fernandez, Marines Cpl. Eddie Austin, Marines P.F.C. Otto Paul Meyer III, Army Sgt. Gerald Baylis, Army Sgt. Carl Roy Smead, Army P.F.C. Terry Allen, Army Pvt. Michael S. Grannon, Marines Cpl. Adan S. Najar, Marines P.F.C. Walt "Butch" Peters, Army L.Cpl. Gary Saxton, Marines S. Sgt. Cornealus Pumphrey, Jr., Army Spl./4TH Class Leveret Prosky.