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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Leader

Honored by:
Ms. Heather L. Ross

Lt. Clyde Edgar gave his life in service to his country during the Vietnam era. He was killed piloting a Navy Skyhawk jet during a training mission at the Naval Air Station, Fallon, Nevada on August 4, 1965.
Lt. Edgar was the son of William Edmond and Mary Glancy Edgar of Rumford, Rhode Island and later Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He graduated from Yale University in 1963, where he was a member of the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps and active as a varsity athlete. He began his Navy career with a posting at Virginia Beach, Virginia, and a tour of sea duty, followed by flight training at Pensacola Naval Air Station. He was finishing his training as a Naval Aviator in preparation for flying combat missions in Vietnam when he was killed.
Lt. Edgar is buried in Arlington Cemetery, Section 37, Grave 3228, between the Kennedy gravesites and the Tomb of the Unknowns. If you go there on Memorial Day, you can hear the military bands and the commemorative prayers and speeches from the national service of remembrance nearby. You will also notice the constant flow of National Airport-bound jets flying low overhead, as they have these many years.

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air”. William Shakespeare, The Tempest