AFTER 41 YEARS Troopers gather to honor fallen Platoon Sergeant 

Blackhorse Trooper PSG Glenn E. Nicholson (H Company, 2/11ACR), a former faculty member of Kansas University’s Army ROTC department prior to his Viet Nam deployment, was honored September 10^th on campus, forty-one years after he was killed in battle in Vietnam May 5,1968. During the ceremony, held in front of a formal cadet battalion formation, an engraved portrait of Nicholson was unveiled and will be permanently hung in the university’s Military Science Building. As a tank platoon sergeant Nicholson was responsible for 19 troopers and five M-48A3 tanks. During his nine month Vietnam tour Nicholson earned two Bronze Stars for Valor and two Purple Hearts.

 “Mom raised all eight of us by herself. She would have been proud at what happened here today. She always bragged about dad being on the faculty and I felt it fitting his portrait should be kept here” his daughter Judith Dietz said after the ceremony. Nicholson’s wife died November 30, 2008.

 Two former Blackhorse officers who served with Nicholson flew in and participated in the ceremony. From California came former 1LT Kent Hillhouse (MG, USAR retired) who led Nicholson in battle that fateful day. Former CPT Louis Reymann traveled from Maryland. He was Nicholson’s Acting Company Commander. The host for the event, LTC John Basso, Professor of Military Science at Kansas University, was the Executive Officer of Nicholson’s unit, twenty-four years later.

 Three Blackhorse officers - each having served in the same company at one time or another - gathered in mid-America to pay tribute to a fallen trooper who was killed 41 years ago. That’s Blackhorse kinship at its best – running deep, running long and running true.

 Allons!