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86, passed away . Arrangements provided by Yntema Funeral Home. Services on Nov 20, 1:00pm at Yntema Funeral Home, 251 S State St., Zeeland. Burial in Zeeland Cemetery.
87, passed away . Arrangements provided by Yntema Funeral Home. Services on Apr 20, 11:00am at First Baptist Church of Zeeland. Burial in Mountain Home Cemetery, Otsego, MI.
Gordon Douglas Yntema ( – ) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his actions in the Vietnam War.
Army Sgt. Gordon Douglas Yntema, a Green Beret, receives a decoration while on deployment to Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces Group. Yntema later gave his life protecting his platoonmates, actions that earned him a posthumous Medal of Honor.
Refusing, Sergeant Yntema stood his ground, using his rifle as a club to fight the approximately fifteen Viet Cong attempting his capture. His resistance was so fierce that the Viet Cong were forced to shoot him in order to overcome him.
Sergeant Gordon D. Yntema, United States Army, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity on 16-18 January 1968 while assigned to Detachment A-431, Company D, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, in the Republic of Vietnam.
