Parents: William Earl BOYMAN and Anna Florence WILLIAMS
Maternal grandparents: Alfred Preston WILLIAMS and Anna Sylvia
Graduated from Colfax High School in 1966; played on the Colfax Falcons football team, track team and wrestling team.
Served as a Corporal in the US Marine Corps during the Viet Nam War from 25 Sep 1966 to 3 Mar 1969, fought mainly in the DMZ; received a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Presidential Citation; only original member of his platoon to return home. He loved the Colfax area and lived there after the war.
Married; had 7 children (3 boys and 4 girls) and 5 grandchildren. His youngest daughter was in the Army and fought in Afghanistan; his next-to-youngest son served as a Marine in Iraq. Both made it back home.
Like a lot of servicement he had post traumatic stress and had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He was homeless when he died at age 56 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was a hero in an unpopular war and the way he was recieved when he returned home ate at him for the rest of his life. Like many Viet Nam vets, he carried a lot of mental wounds and had no place to go for help in dealing with them. Despite everything he was proud to be an American and proud to be a Marine.
Maternal grandparents: Alfred Preston WILLIAMS and Anna Sylvia
Graduated from Colfax High School in 1966; played on the Colfax Falcons football team, track team and wrestling team.
Served as a Corporal in the US Marine Corps during the Viet Nam War from 25 Sep 1966 to 3 Mar 1969, fought mainly in the DMZ; received a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Presidential Citation; only original member of his platoon to return home. He loved the Colfax area and lived there after the war.
Married; had 7 children (3 boys and 4 girls) and 5 grandchildren. His youngest daughter was in the Army and fought in Afghanistan; his next-to-youngest son served as a Marine in Iraq. Both made it back home.
Like a lot of servicement he had post traumatic stress and had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He was homeless when he died at age 56 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was a hero in an unpopular war and the way he was recieved when he returned home ate at him for the rest of his life. Like many Viet Nam vets, he carried a lot of mental wounds and had no place to go for help in dealing with them. Despite everything he was proud to be an American and proud to be a Marine.
Parents: William Earl BOYMAN and Anna Florence WILLIAMS
Maternal grandparents: Alfred Preston WILLIAMS and Anna Sylvia
Graduated from Colfax High School in 1966; played on the Colfax Falcons football team, track team and wrestling team.
Served as a Corporal in the US Marine Corps during the Viet Nam War from 25 Sep 1966 to 3 Mar 1969, fought mainly in the DMZ; received a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Presidential Citation; only original member of his platoon to return home. He loved the Colfax area and lived there after the war.
Married; had 7 children (3 boys and 4 girls) and 5 grandchildren. His youngest daughter was in the Army and fought in Afghanistan; his next-to-youngest son served as a Marine in Iraq. Both made it back home.
Like a lot of servicement he had post traumatic stress and had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He was homeless when he died at age 56 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was a hero in an unpopular war and the way he was recieved when he returned home ate at him for the rest of his life. Like many Viet Nam vets, he carried a lot of mental wounds and had no place to go for help in dealing with them. Despite everything he was proud to be an American and proud to be a Marine.
Maternal grandparents: Alfred Preston WILLIAMS and Anna Sylvia
Graduated from Colfax High School in 1966; played on the Colfax Falcons football team, track team and wrestling team.
Served as a Corporal in the US Marine Corps during the Viet Nam War from 25 Sep 1966 to 3 Mar 1969, fought mainly in the DMZ; received a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Presidential Citation; only original member of his platoon to return home. He loved the Colfax area and lived there after the war.
Married; had 7 children (3 boys and 4 girls) and 5 grandchildren. His youngest daughter was in the Army and fought in Afghanistan; his next-to-youngest son served as a Marine in Iraq. Both made it back home.
Like a lot of servicement he had post traumatic stress and had a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He was homeless when he died at age 56 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was a hero in an unpopular war and the way he was recieved when he returned home ate at him for the rest of his life. Like many Viet Nam vets, he carried a lot of mental wounds and had no place to go for help in dealing with them. Despite everything he was proud to be an American and proud to be a Marine.
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