Torres to be honored with Gold Star at Knox County Veterans Day program
SSGT GILBERT TORRES Knox County’s Gold Star honoree for the county’s 2026 Veterans Day program was killed in action in Viet Nam in 1969. | COURTESY PHOTO
Staff Sergeant Gilbert Garcia Torres, C Company, 1st Battalion 26th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division, USARV Army Of the United States, has been selected to be the Gold Star Honoree for 2026.
Torres was born Jan. 30, 1946, in Bexar County, Texas, to Jesse O. and Felipa Garcia Torres. He died January 14, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam. He is buried in Johnson Memorial Cemetery in Munday, …
