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rrREFUGIO THOMAS "TOM"TERAN 101st AIRBORN DIVISION HOME CITY  WESTLAND MI Every week while he was in vietnam, Refugio Teran got a package from his mother containing 30 pounds of oatmeal, canned fruit and sugar, which Teran gave to the Vietnamese family near the base where he was stationed. On May 4th, "back in the world"' National Guardsmen had been called in to control rioting at Kent State and then Governor Ronald Reagan ordered ordered California Universities closed for the rest of the week. During the night of May 5, 1970 (12 hours in time behind Vietnam time), Mrs. Anna Teran woke up screaming, Knowing she would lose her son. On May 6, 1970, PFC Larry G. Kier and PFC Refugio T. Teran were assigned to seperate companies of the 101st Airborn division as riflemen defending an artillery fire support base in Vietnam. At about 0500 hours on May 6, 1970, Viet Cong forces overran a guard station at an ammunnition dump near Henderson Hill in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, killing 33 Americans. Kier and Teran were last seen running toward a barricade, and when not seen again, were presumed dead. Kier's position was reportebly hit by a rocket propelled grenade (RPG),  and then napalm ignited in his location which was leaking from a nearby position. PFC Teran had been located in another firing position along the camp perimeter. The next day, a graves registration detail collecting bodies was unable to find any trace of Kier and Teran. Five others in the unit who had been believed dead were found alive, but injured. When 591 Americans were released from Vietnam in 1973, Kier and Teran were not among them. There has been no word surface about them since they disappeared.  BACK TO MIA:s

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