About Kiss Lori For Me by Lori Gross-Reaves
On Valentine’s Day 1968, Kilo Company3/9 left Ca Lu Combat Base in Vietnam on a combat patrol mission. Suddenly, as the Marines scaled the ridge in search of the enemy, chaos erupted. During a ferocious, fiery attack from the North Vietnamese Army, ten Marines and Senior Corpsman HM2 Larry Jo Goss were killed. Two more Marines died later. While Larry’s body lay in a humid jungle for twenty-one days, his young wife, Marty, was only told that her husband was “MIA” and possibly taken by hostile forces. Desperately hoping and praying that Larry was still alive, Marty waited in agony with their six-month-old daughter, Lori Jo, for the good news that would never come.
As she grew into adulthood, Lori Goss began a decades-long search for her father’s comrades and the truth about her father’s death. It would take two trips to Vietnam and many long conversations with veterans of the battle to finally piece together the puzzle she had been aching to complete her whole life.
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Dr. Lori Goss-Reaves is a professor of social work and an advocate for individuals with special needs. Through her work as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Dr. Goss-Reaves inspires families to tell their own stories of resilience, hope, and love. As the only daughter of a Navy corpsman killed in action in Vietnam, she believes that the entire family serves when a loved one joins the armed forces. Dr. Goss-Reaves is married to syndicated cartoonist Eric Reaves, who draws the “Hi and Lori” comic strip. Lori and Eric reside in Indiana, where they raised their five children. Five grandchildren now filled their lives with joy.