Editing William Westmoreland (section)

==Personal life==
Westmoreland first met his future wife, Katherine (Kitsy) Stevens Van Deusen (1927-2021), while stationed at [[Fort Sill]]. Westmoreland met her again in North Carolina when she was nineteen and a student at [[University of North Carolina at Greensboro]]. The couple married in May 1947 and had three children.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/international/asia/20westmoreland.html?pagewanted=print|title=William C. Westmoreland Is Dead at 91|date=2005-07-20|work=The New York Times|access-date=2011-08-04|first1=Craig R.|last1=Whitney|first2=Eric|last2=Pace}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v3ZQAAAAIBAJ&pg=4201,29382&dq=kitsy+westmoreland&hl=en|title=While the General's at War His Lady Does Hospital Work|date=1967-05-01|work=[[The Milwaukee Sentinel]]|access-date=2013-10-05|first1=Winzola|last1=McLendon}}{{Dead link|date=January 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.sc.edu/socar/uscs/2001/genwcw.html|title=Gen. William Childs Westmoreland Papers, ca. 1900–2000 (Gifts to Manuscripts Division 2001, South Caroliniana Library)|publisher=University of South Carolina|access-date=2013-10-05}}</ref>

Just hours after Westmoreland was sworn in as Army Chief of Staff on July 7, 1968, his brother-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Van Deusen, commander of 2nd Battalion, [[47th Infantry Regiment (United States)|47th Infantry Regiment]], was killed when his helicopter was shot down in the [[Mekong Delta]] region of Vietnam.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.flyarmy.org/panel/battle/68070702.HTM|title=Westy In-law Dies in Viet|date=1968-07-07|work=[[Pacific Stars and Stripes]]|access-date=2007-09-14|series=6807PSS.AVN, 68070399.KIA}}</ref>