RIATE, ALFONSO RAY
RIP 11/28/1984

Name: Alfonso Ray Riate
Branch/Rank: UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS/E4
Unit:  Company K, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division
Date of Birth: 29 April 1945
Home City of Record: DELL GARDENS CA
Date of Loss: 26-April-67
Country of Loss: SOUTH VIETNAM
Loss Coordinates: 164330 North  1065820  East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: ground
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 0655

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2021 with information from Justin Jackson-Mann.

REMARKS:  730316 RELEASED BY PRG

JOINED PEACE COMMITTEE/ACCUSED OF COLLABORATION

2021:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113127194/alfonso-ray-riate and https://www.locatefamily.com/R/RIA/RIATE-D-1.html
 
It indicates that he died in Lynwood, Los Angeles County, California on November 28, 1984.
 
Also mentioned in the book:  Dissenting POWs: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today  https://www.amazon.com/Dissenting-POWs-Vietnams-Prison-America/dp/1583679081 where it states:
 
Riate’s father immigrated from the Philippines and married a member of the Karuk tribe. He grew up with his mother’s family, before enlisting in the Marines in 1965.  After his involvement with anti-war activity, as a POW and later as part of the Indochina Peace Campaign, Riate moved to the Philippines. There, his opposition to the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos resulted in his untimely death, at the age of 39, in 1984.

 

https://www.marines.mil/Portals/1/Publications/Marines%20and%20Military%20Law%20in%20Vietnam_Trial%20by%20Fire%20%20PCN%2019000310600_10.pdf