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Classmates remember soldier 55 years after his death in Vietnam
from 3-23 BC
By SUe FerrArA
On March 21st, Pfc. Joseph Thorn of Bordentown should be turning 73 years old. Instead, Thorn is forever 18, and never far from the thoughts of his surviving family members, and his classmates from Bordentown Regional
High School.
He is gone, but thanks to those classmates, he stands as a continued reminder of what it means to serve one’s country.
Thorn died on May 31, 1968, during a battle Vietnam war historians sometimes call “Little Tet.” And those same historians call
May 1968 the bloodiest month of a very bloody year for the American forces who were in Vietnam.
Peace talks began on May 10, 1968; but, according to scholar Ronald Spector, author of After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam, those talks led to more
See Thorn, Page 12
