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Donald Mcarthur Young

Chief Petty Officer
1959 – 2001
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation MedalNavy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal3Navy Good Conduct Medal2Navy Unit Commendation
Navy Meritorious Unit CommendationNational Defense Service MedalSouthwest Asia Service MedalSea Service Deployment Ribbon
Life Keepsakes Service Decorations Shadow Box Also Remembered Memorials Laid to Rest In Our Keeping

Chief Petty Officer Donald Mcarthur Young served the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations for 21 years. Donald served in the Cold War, the Afghanistan and the Global War on Terrorism, and during the years of Gulf War. Donald was 41 years old.

How He Died
Manner Homicide
Cause Multiple traumatic injuries
Place Virginia
Biography
Information Systems Technician Chief, United States Navy - a veteran of the Gulf War, on special detail at the Pentagon. He was a week short of his forty-second birthday.



He went to William Fleming High School in Roanoke, where he played football, and had a scholarship to North Carolina A&T before he enlisted. His old coach said: I know the efforts Donald put into his academics and his athletics is the same effort he put into his life as a military man.



He was Atlantic Fleet Sailor of the Year, and qualified as both an enlisted surface warfare specialist and an enlisted aviation warfare specialist.



His family say he was quiet and compassionate, that he put the safety and wellbeing of others before his own, and that whenever his mother was ill he was there looking after her. He tinkered with his computer, watched films and played sport.



He was devoted to his wife Felicia for fourteen years; she bore his long absences at sea and understood why he went.



He is a direct descendant of the Hairstons.
Survivors
His wife Felicia, his brother Edward, his sisters Addrene, Loretta, Alice, Valerie and Deborah, and his goddaughter Damiani.
Keepsakes
Arlington National Cemetery 9/11 Memorial Shared stone
Arlington National Cemetery 9/11 Memorial
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery Shared stone
The Pentagon Group Burial Marker, Section 64, Arlington National Cemetery
Donald Mcarthur Young
Donald Mcarthur Young
Service Record
U.S. Navy
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Information Systems Technician Chief
1980 – 2001
Conflicts
Cold War Gulf War Afghanistan Global War on Terrorism
Memorials
National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Line 1959
National September 11 Memorial Panel 72W · Line 1 cut as Donald McArthur Young
Pentagon Group Burial Marker Panel 05W · Line 31 cut as DONALD M YOUNG ITC USN
Also Remembered
September 11, 2001 — The Pentagon
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Burial Information
Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery
Section 64
Grave 5089
In Our Keeping
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Donald Mcarthur Young
Chief Petty Officer
U.S. Navy
1980 - 2001
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Chief Petty Officer
Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal3 Navy Good Conduct Medal2 Navy Unit Commendation
Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation National Defense Service Medal Southwest Asia Service Medal Sea Service Deployment Ribbon

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