Robert Charles Ohara

Clinton County native Robert Charles O’Hara was raised in a large family near the town of Lost Nation. He graduated high school in the class of 1967 and joined the Army the same year at the age of 17. SP5 O’Hara was sent to South Vietnam in May 1968. He was assigned to the 1st Aviation Brigade where he worked in a UH-1 Huey unit. On February 6, 1969, while serving as a crew chief aboard a Huey, his chopper went missing over enemy territory in the Quang Tri Province. The area was infamously held by NVA soldiers. The crew was listed by the Army as missing in action and later classified in 1979 as presumed killed. Over the next 25 years several conflicting reports indicated the crew may be alive. Yet in 1996 a joint team of Vietnamese and American investigators located the crash site and recovered human remains. These remains were later identified as SP4 O’Hara and his crewmen. In 2002 the remains were laid to rest in a group burial site at the Arlington National Cemetery. O’Hara was 19 years old at the time of his death and was posthumously promoted to a Sergeant.