Who Are The Presidio 27?
Who are the Presidio 27?
We remember their names and honor their service, sacrifice, and courage to resist injustice.
Richard “Rusty” Bunch
b.1949 – d.1968
An AWOL soldier shot and killed by a guard at the Presidio stockade for skipping away from a work detail, October 11, 1968. Growing up in Ohio he played Little League baseball, bowled, rode a motorcycle, dated a lot of girls. He enlisted at seventeen when his best friend was drafted.
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