When his military commitment was finished, Sasser enrolled at
Texas A&M University as a
chemistry student. Although he did not graduate, he received an honorary doctorate of letters from the university in 2014. In 1970, Sasser married Ethel Morant. The couple had three sons: Ross, Benjamin and Billy. In 1996, his wife died. His sons Ross and Benjamin also preceded Sasser in death. Sasser raised an American flag on a flagpole outside his home every day. In his later years, he turned multiple speaking engagements, saying "These are the memories you deal with better if they're not in the forefront of your mind." During a Library of Congress interview, Sasser spoke of the privilege of being a medic and how that helped explain his battlefield bravery: "There's no way I could have, in my mind, not went to see about someone when the hollered medic. Repayment of the adulation these guys heaped on you demanded that you go." Mr. Sasser provided a four year, $100,000 scholarship for one veteran medical student each year. A statue depicting Sasser in the war was created in 2010 and was placed in front of the
Brazoria County Courthouse. ==Death==