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1964 – 1975 · the federal file swept whole
Lakeville's share of the county's Vietnam dead is none — and unlike most zeros in this build, this one was dug, not defaulted. The county's total stands at 54 in the sister builds, allocated by town: South Bend 31, Mishawaka 16, Walkerton 6, Osceola 1, New Carlisle 0. Lakeville's share had never been extracted, and a share merely assumed to be zero would be a defect in the county's accounting: a man can hide in an unexamined remainder. This pass closed the remainder. The carrier is the same official file the county's other allocations rest on: the National Archives' Indiana casualty list, whose stated source is the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (Record Group 330, as of 29 April 2008) — the successor file to the Combat Area Casualties Current File — carrying each man's home of record by city and county. Two complete sweeps were run. A search of the whole Indiana list for LAKEVILLE returns zero matches, under any surname. A search for the county field returns exactly 54 matches, every one read individually; their home-of-record cities are only South Bend, Mishawaka, Walkerton, and Osceola. The reconciliation is exact:
South Bend 31 · Mishawaka 16 · Walkerton 6 · Osceola 1 · Lakeville 0 · New Carlisle 0 · North Liberty and every other county place 0 — total 54, difference nil. There is no unallocated remainder in which a Lakeville man could sit. The sweep was cross-checked against two independent republications of the same federal data (the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center's Indiana Vietnam deaths database — its blank for Lakeville is a partial check only, since that interface caps broad searches, and it is used as nothing more — and the CACCF-era state list as republished in 1997) and against the Virtual Wall used strictly as an index, which carries no Lakeville heading at all and town counts identical to the official file. No name in this article rests on an aggregator.
The residence question was worked separately, because home of record and residence are different instruments. The county-line watch was run where it had to be run: LaVille school draws from both sides of the Marshall County line, and the federal file carries four Plymouth home-of-record dead (Terry Wayne Dickerhoff; Marvin Lee Dipert; Robert Lynne Long; Glenn Airen Pranger). No source read ties any of the four to Lakeville, Union Township, or LaVille school; they are therefore not moved — they stand as Plymouth, Marshall County, outside the 54 and outside this town's allocation, with the school-attribution settler named's note. Indiana's state Vietnam memorial (1,525 names, chronological, no town attribution) prints no Lakeville line either way, and the county's own memorial stone at Howard Park, South Bend (granite, by Jed Eide, 1989) has no name transcription in any source searched — the check against the stone itself stands as a named gap, with the expected result stated in the note: the federal sweep from which any 1989 county list was drawn leaves it no Lakeville name to carry.
One date conflict inside the county's file is printed whole, though the man is Walkerton's: Samuel Eugene Hewitt's death stands at 23 March 1966, remains not recovered, in the 2008 DCAS extract, and at 1 December 1975 — the later presumptive finding-of-death date — in the CACCF-era list. The two dates are the two instruments' answers about one missing man; neither is corrected into the other, and Walkerton's file owns the man.