October 13, 2003 - Fallen Peace Corps Volunteers: Families create Internet Memorial to Fallen Volunteers

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By Admin1 (admin) (pool-141-157-6-190.balt.east.verizon.net - 141.157.6.190) on Monday, October 13, 2003 - 1:12 am: Edit Post

Families create Internet Memorial to Fallen Volunteers





Read and comment on the Internet Memorial that has been created to honor fallen volunteers, to aid friends and families in making connections with each other, and ultimately to commission a permanent, physical memorial to fallen volunteers. Visit the web site at:

Fallen Peace Corps Volunteers Memorial Project*

* This link was active on the date it was posted. PCOL is not responsible for broken links which may have changed.



Fallen Peace Corps Volunteers Memorial Project

One morning over scones and coffee, my mother and I came up with an idea, an idea for a healing project, the beginning of which is this website.

On May 12, 1997, my brother, Jeremiah Mack, died in a car accident, on a dusty road in Niger very far away from home. He was a Peace Corps volunteer doing masonry work, driving to a job site in a friend's village.

Since then, we have struggled to make sense of his death, struggled to move forward. We established a scholarship in his name at his high school, but still we wanted to do something more. Recently, we learned how many other volunteers have died during their time in the Peace Corps and how many families there are like us. At this time, fallen volunteers are collectively honored by only a simple plaque hanging on a wall in the D.C. office of the Peace Corps. It is our belief that these special, unique, and very giving individuals deserve to be remembered in a way befitting their contributions to their families, friends, and to the strangers they reached out to in so many far corners of the world.

So, we are beginning a journey, just as they did. We hope you will join us.

~Chelsea Mack

Our Mission

First, to celebrate the lives and service of fallen Peace Corps volunteers through the creation of an Internet Memorial. We hope to eventually include stories and pictures of every volunteer whose family members or friends would like to share them. See Fallen PCVs.

To create a network of support for the families and friends of fallen PCVs. We would like to aid willing families in connecting with each other. See Making Connections.

To ultimately raise funds to establish a permanent, physical memorial honoring each Peace Corps volunteer who has died while in service. We are currently exploring possibilities and will share what we find as soon as details become available. See News.




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By Anonymous (tulip.tpl.toronto.on.ca - 192.30.226.31) on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 - 11:44 am: Edit Post

Good luck in getting the names and information.

By bankass.com (0-1pool136-32.nas12.somerville1.ma.us.da.qwest.net - 63.159.136.32) on Thursday, October 16, 2003 - 9:04 pm: Edit Post

Thank you. I support your efforts. Every one of these volunteers should memorialized properly for their service.

By ralpharchung (1cust12.tnt1.port-townsend.wa.da.uu.net - 67.250.16.12) on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 8:39 am: Edit Post

Thank you for putting some tooth to this wonderful idea. I believe that there were five Volunteers killed in service in Ecuador when I was there. Two were in my group and died in a plane crash, the other three were in a prior group. One died in a truck accident and two others drowned. I will certainly support your efforts.
Ralph Archung
RPCV, Ecuador, 1964-66

By Kathie Birdsell (cache-mtc-aa05.proxy.aol.com - 64.12.96.10) on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 9:20 pm: Edit Post

Dear Chelsea,

I am so very sorry for family's loss. I served in Niger 1983-85 and during that time, we also lost two of our volunteers to vehicle accidents, both of them were named Mark. Please e-mail me if you think I can help in any way.

Sincerely,
Kathie Birdsell, RPCV
Niger, 1983-85

By Kim Tocco (cache-ra07.proxy.aol.com - 152.163.252.7) on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 - 8:03 pm: Edit Post

As the mother of a recently returned PCV, I am so very sorry for your loss. I support your efforts and would be willing to help if needed

By Jackie Mackay (cache-ntc-aa06.proxy.aol.com - 198.81.26.11) on Friday, October 31, 2003 - 5:48 am: Edit Post

As a returned PCV who lost a fellow volunteer while in service (Kenya, 1981-83), I can appreciate how much this will mean to both the families and to the RPCV's who served with those who never needed that ticket home. I just hope this memorial will include all those who died in service without regard to the cause, without judgement or blame.

By MarySchauer (cache2.cdc.gov - 158.111.4.26) on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 10:24 am: Edit Post

This is a wonderful idea. My friend and colleague Robert Long of Humboldt Iowa died in a fire in April of 1983 in Liberia. I would be happy to help support your efforts both with legwork and finances. Please contact me.

By MarySchauer (cache2.cdc.gov - 158.111.4.26) on Monday, December 08, 2003 - 10:24 am: Edit Post

This is a wonderful idea. My friend and colleague Robert Long of Humboldt Iowa died in a fire in April of 1983 in Liberia. I would be happy to help support your efforts both with legwork and finances. Please contact me.

By Pam Cameron (216.175.148.2) on Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - 4:44 pm: Edit Post

I am the mother of a current PCV who is in Chad. I am so sorry for your loss. Please let me know how I can help.

By DEADHEADAHEAD (cache-mtc-ae01.proxy.aol.com - 64.12.117.5) on Tuesday, November 16, 2004 - 6:37 pm: Edit Post

I WAS VERY CLOSE TO NANCY COUTU, A MURDERED PCV.I THINK THAT NANCY, AS WELL AS ALL OTHER FALLEN PCV'S WHOM ARE WITH US IN OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS EVERYDAY, WILL MOST CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THIS MEMORIAL, AS WELL AS THEIR FAMILIY AND FRIEND'S. AFTER ALL THAT THEY HAVE DONE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL WALK'S OF LIFE AROUND THE WORLD, THIS IS THE LEAST THAT COULD BE DONE TO REMEMBER THEM.THEY WERE ALL TRULY HERO'S.

By Anonymous (cache-ntc-ac07.proxy.aol.com - 207.200.116.136) on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 5:19 pm: Edit Post

i AM DEEPLY GRIEVED BY THE COVERUP OF THE MURDERER OF DEBRA GARDNER BY DENNIS PRIVEN AND MORE APPALEED THAT HE IS EMPLOYED BY THE SOCIAL SECUIRTY ADMIN FOR 78,000 A YEAR. HE IS ALLEGEDLY MENTALLY ILL WHY ISNT HE IN A STATE HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE RATHER THEN FREE TO MURDER AGAIN WITH HIS SCHIZOPHRENIA? iF INDEED HE IS MENTALLY ILL.
THIS WAS A CASE OF GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER AIDED AND ABETTED BY THE PEACE CORP WORKER THERE/ SHAME ON THEM.

By David Wiley (user-31f46a.user.msu.edu - 35.10.132.90) on Monday, August 13, 2007 - 11:44 am: Edit Post

This Tuesday, August 14, 2007 is the one-year anniversary of our loss in a vehicle accident in Ghana of Kimberly Rosario Perez, a RPCV from her years in South Africa and an MSU Ph.D. candidate in Sociology and an African Studies graduate fellow.

We have created a memorial website with photos, remembrances, and documents to help us to remember her and her truly unique and wonderful 30 years of life - as well as the loss that we have experienced in this last year. You can see it at: www.africa.msu.edu/kimperez.

David Wiley, Michigan State University

By abdulla sona (59.93.10.235) on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 3:18 am: Edit Post

peace aremedy for all problems of the world

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