Northern Kentucky Marine honored 44 years after going missing in Cambodia

"His life was cut short, he was just 18," Janet Meadows, Hall’s sister, said. "He would have made the marines his life. He loved it. That’s all he wanted to do was be in the marines. And he was and that’s what he did. He was a good kid. He would have been the boy next door that everybody loved. "

On May 12, 1975, Cambodian soldiers seized a U.S. container ship, the SS Mayaguez. The Marines came to the rescue but suffered causalities. In the end, Hall and two other marines were left behind. The three were eventually captured and later executed.

"When we found out there are 14 POW, MIA’s from Vietnam here in Kentucky we started doing the research, started pulling their bios,” Todd Matonich of Rolling Thunder KY 5 said. “It’s important for us to really make sure the families know that we don’t forget."

Hall’s family hasn’t forgotten.

"My brothers remains need to come back home and be buried here in the united states not where he was at,” Meadows said.

Members of the Rolling Thunder KY 5 will be back in our area later in the week for a memorial ride in Fort Thomas.