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Sergeant Larry W. Maysey, Rescue Specialist, United States Air Force - Awarded posthumously for actions during the Vietnam War.

I never met Larry but my life intersected his.

He quit his job with a local mason and went to Vietnam.
A year or so later I took that job.
Around then He was shot down and listed MIA.
~1970 I was visiting a friend and mentioned that I was going to move to San Diego. His older sister asked if she could ride out with me. She wanted to visit a helicopter pilot in LA. (I still did not know who Larry was at the time)
On the drive out I found out that Larry was her fiancé and LA was his pilot when the chopper went down. I stayed in SD she went to LA. During her visit She found out Larry was thrown out as they went down and pilot was trapped and subsequently rescued.
They never found Larry so MIA.
Recently I heard reclassified to KIA? Do they do that after so many years or would remains have to be found?

35 or so years later I was in spinal cord rehab and one of the techs was Larry’s niece who told me that there was a statue for Larry in a little park front of the firehouse, on Main Street Chester.

I went down to that park and sat on a bench next to the statue this morning, Felt kind of weird.