 # 56 DAVID BRENNERDAVID BRENNER - deceased PARSONS, KANSAS Conway Twitty - Star Spangled Heaven DATA ALL ABOUT DAVID BRENNER IN THE VIETNAM WAR I'LL BE WAITING ON THE FAR SIDE BANKS OF JORDON - The Primitive Quartet David's Activities at PHS Basketball 62 63 School Service 63 Intramurals 64 Career Plans - Undecided April 2nd, 1946 - April 1st, 1968 DAVID ALDEN BRENNER - EAGLE SCOUT THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC STARTS AT THE 1:20 MARK From the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. honored on Panel 47E, Row 30 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. · Date of Birth: 4/2/1946 · Date of Casualty: 4/1/1968 · Home of Record: PARSONS · County of Record: LABETTE COUNTY · State: KS · Branch of Service: ARMY · Rank: SSGT · Panel/Row:47E, 30 · Casualty Province: HUA NGHIA Tribute TO DAVID BRENNER From JOHNNY LINDEN on August 22nd, 2014 DAVID BRENNER AND I WERE BEST FRIENDS. I WAS CRUSHED WHEN STEVE COOPER CAME BY MY CLASS AT PITTSBURG AND TOLD ME ABOUT DAVID. I WAS GLAD THEY DIDN'T ASK ME TO BE A PALLBEARER, BECAUSE I WAS CRYING SO HARD AT HIS FUNERAL, I COULDN'T HAVE DONE IT. PARSONS JUDGE RICK TUCKER WAS ONE OF HIS PALLBEARERS. DAVID WAS AN EAGLE SCOUT AND AS FINE A PERSON AS YOU COULD EVER MEET. WE WERE IN SCOUTS TOGETHER. I WAS SO PROUD OF DAVID, WHEN I LEARNED THEY NAMED THE NATIONAL GUARD STATION AT PARSONS AFTER HIM. YOU SHOULD STOP BY THE BUILDING AND SEE DAVID'S BIG PICTURE IN THE LOBBY, OR JUST GO BACK HERE TO PICTURE #53. I'VE STILL GOT THE PARSONS NEWSPAPER TELLING THE HORRIBLE NEWS ABOUT DAVID. I STOPPED BY TO SEE DAVID'S DAD IN THE LATE EIGHTIES AND INTRODUCED HIM TO MY TWO DAUGHTERS. HE WAS THRILLED TO SEE US. I USED TO DREAM ABOUT DAVID FOR MANY YEARS. I NOW HAVE HIS PICTURE ON MY DESKTOP PICTURES ON MY COMPUTER. GOD BLESS DAVID BRENNER. DAVID & I WENT OUT TO MY FOLKS CABIN ON THE RIVER QUITE OFTEN. ONE DAY WE TOOK MY DADS BOAT AND WENT AS FAR NORTH AS YOU COULD GO TILL YOU RUN INTO SOME SHALLOW RAPIDS. ANOTHER TIME WE WERE SHOOTING RIFLES OUT IN THE WOODS ALONG THIS CREEK AND WE SAW SOMETHING RED ON TOP OF A BIG TREE LAYING ACROSS THE CREEK. WE SHOT AT THE RED THING AND WHEN WE GOT UP TO THE LOG, IT TURNED OUT TO BE SOMEBODY'S GAS CAN LEAKING GAS ALL OVER THE LOG. DAVID SLIPPED OFF THE LOG AND SCRATCHED UP HIS BACK WITH THE GASOLINE BURNING HIS BACK REALLY BAD. ANOTHER TIME WE WENT OUT TO THE RIVER WHEN IT WAS ABOUT 0 DEGREES AND WERE WALKING ON THE ICE WHERE A CREEK MET THE RIVER. WE WERE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO GO VERY FAR OUT ACROSS THE RIVER. ON THE FRIDAY BEFORE PHS GRADUATION IN 1964, SEVERAL OF US WENT UP TO GALESBURG TO THE ROCK QUARRY. IT HAD PRETTY CLEAR WATER, COMPARED TO THE MUDDY LAKE & RIVER. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN SWIMMING, DAVID SUNBURNED HIS BACK REALLY BAD. HE MISSED BACCALAUREATE ON SUNDAY BECAUSE HE HAD BIG BLISTERS ALL OVER HIS BACK. ONE NIGHT DAVID BRENNER & I CLIMBED ON THE REAR BUMPER OF CHIPPER MARQUARDT'S MODEL A FORD, WHEN HE WAS ABOUT TO TAKE OFF DOWN THE STREET. GARY BEVINS & SHERMAN COLLINS WERE SMART ENOUGH TO GET INSIDE THE CAR. WHEN HE GOT UP TO 30 MILES AN HOUR, IT WAS ALL DAVID & I COULD DO TO HANG ON, TILL HE FINALLY CAME TO A STOP, A FEW BLOCKS LATER. YOU CAN SEE A PICTURE OF DAVID BRENNER & THE MODEL A FORD ON PAGE 60 IN OUR 1964 PHS ANNUAL. ANOTHER TIME DAVID BRENNER WAS RIDING ON THE BACK OF MY MOTORCYCLE WHEN I PULLED OUT ON MAIN STREET FROM THE BURGER SHAK IN FRONT OF MARVEL PARK. HE WASN'T HOLDING ON AND HE ROLLED OVER BACKWARDS, AND THE ONLY THING THAT KEPT HIM FROM FALLING OFF ON HIS HEAD WAS HIS FEET CAUGHT ME UNDER BOTH ARMS. ANOTHER TIME SEVERAL OF US WERE RIDING MOTORCYCLES DOWN, ACROSS AND BACK UP THIS STEEP DRY CREEK BED ON SOUTHERN BLVD AND JUDGE RICKY TUCKER GOT HALF WAY UP THE BANK ON HIS CUSHMAN MOTOR SCOOTER, AND IT DIED. HE STARTED ROLLING BACKWARDS AND CRASHED BACK DOWN THE STEEP HILL. WE NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD IN OUR LIFE. Oldest Native American footage. David Brenner & other scouts used to do Native American Dances like the ones on this video. GO BACK | ||