Rushing was killed in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam on February 14, 1967 and his remains were returned to Leake County Cemetery, Lena Mississippi on permission of his wife Jessie M. Rushing.
He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and the Good Conduct Medal. His name is also inscripted on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. on Panel 15E Line 27. In Mississippi his inscription is on the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Ocean Springs on panel 10W and in Rankin County in the Confederate Monument in Brandon, Mississippi. |
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