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Ruth Whipple Crocker (born December 10, 1946) is an American writer and author of the memoir Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion After War, which began as a Pushcart Prize-nominated essay in O-Dark-Thirty.
Ruth W. Crocker. West Point Ring Melt. I was honored to attend the ceremony of the Ring Melt at West Point on January 19, 2024. I donated my husband’s West Point Class ring, Class of 1966, which I’ve held onto since he was killed in Vietnam in 1969.
About Ruth. “I grew up in a nursing home – the family business – perhaps that enlarged my perspective about why we should do what we want while we can. Growing up among old people and then losing my husband in the Vietnam War in 1969 provided me with an early education about grief and resilience.”.
Mar 9, 2014 · Ruth W. Crocker's essays and other nonfiction writing have been recognised in Best American Essays and as a finalist for the Literary Awards Program of the Santa Fe Writers Project.
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May 13, 2014 · Ruth Crocker’s powerful and gracefully written memoir offers readers the quintessential “coming of age” narrative. The overarching, central story of loss, remembrance, and reunion, which chronicles the too-brief life and death in war of Captain David Crocker, Jr., also traces the coming of age of the United States during and ...
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May 16, 2019 · The Vietnam War – Fifty Years Later. May 17, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the death Captain David R. Crocker, Jr. in Vietnam. We were married on June 9, 1966, the day after his graduation from West Point.
Those Who Remain by Ruth W. Crocker | Books in Review. On May 17, 1969, a North Vietnamese booby trap killed Army Captain David Rockwell Crocker, Jr., the commander of Alpha Company, 22nd Infantry, and three of his men.
