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Hochman: This St. Louis native hit .325 in the minors. Then he died in Vietnam.

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His name was destined to be on a baseball card, but it ended up on a tombstone first.

On Saturday, a soft layer of snow coated the departed at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. Gloom loomed from the gray sky. In the 31-degree cold, the whipping wind was incessant. And inscribed on one of the off-white graves, which looked like all the others in this row, and every row, row after row, thousands and thousands of Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice, was his name:

It’s a name we should’ve known.

It’s a name we still should know.