DANNY JACKS MEMORIAL STATUE UNVEILING - Col. Ralph Tildon, retired U.S. Army Reserves, (left) and Mrs. Marcel Jacks (center), wife of the late Staff Sgt. Danny Lee Jacks of Rowell, unveiled a statue and plaque that were erected in Jacks' honor at the Cleveland County Veterans Park in Rison Saturday morning. Tildon served as an executive officer in the same Army company as Staff Sgt. Jacks in Vietnam. The two became close friends in annual reunions that the company held after the
RISON - Col. Ralph Tildon recalled the first time he ever spoke with Staff Sgt. Danny Lee Jacks said a lot about the kind of person that Jacks was.
It was in Vietnam in the fall of 1969 and Tildon was serving as an executive officer in the same Army company as Jacks.
