...her son, Donald Sperl, similar to what she and her husband did at the memorial in the nation's capital. Like Charles F. Gamble Jr., of Juneau, Sperl didn't make it back. "He got there on his 21st birthday," his mother said. "He was...

...deaths came during the Vietnam War. Army Cpl. Donald Walter Sperl was killed in Vietnam in 1968 and Army Spc. Charles F. Gamble Jr., died in 1969 in Vietnam. Both were graduates of Juneau-Douglas High School. The men, who were 20 when they...

...building on the University of Alaska Southeast campus renamed for Army Cpl. Donald Walter Sperl and Army Spc. Charles F. Gamble Jr. They died in Vietnam and Juneau's most recent wartime military deaths. Thomas had played basketball against Sperl...