The Viet Nam Wall

[Yoda]

Virtual Viet Nam Wall

This really is an amazing web site. Someone spent a lot of time and effort to create it.

If you think a friend or family member of a Serviceman or Woman that was KIA in Viet Nam would like to view this link, Please copy the link and forward it

 http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm 
  

The link The Viet Nam Wall is a virtual wall of all those lost during the Viet Nam war with the names, bio's and other information on our lost heroes. Those who remember that time frame, or perhaps lost friends or family can look them up on this site.

(First click on a state. When it opens, scroll down to the city and the names will appear. Then click on their names. It should show you a picture of the person, or at least their bio and medals.)

Bud Dougherty

[XLR8]

Thanks for the link Yoda. I was able to find my cousin Ted's info.

Another link which I found awhile back allows one to make a virtual rubbing of names.

Here's one I did for Ted:



And here's the link: Vietnam Wall - vietnamwall.org

May their sacrifice never be forgotten.
Jane Ann

[Z06PACE]

FedEx is actually doing something with the wall too, basically they're trying to get a family submitted photo of every single person's name that is on the wall. I've worked for fedex since '06 and have tried to get the word out about this since they started it a year or so ago, dont feel they publicized it nearly enough. Everytime I talk with people who have war stories I refer this to them. Totally free for anyone interested.
Here's the link...
FedEx Updates - vietnam memorial

[Yoda]

Thanks Jane Ann and Z06PACE for the additional information

I am making this thread a sticky

Bud

[hoosierdaddy]

Virtual Viet Nam Wall

This really is an amazing web site. Someone spent a lot of time and effort to create it.

If you think a friend or family member of a Serviceman or Woman that was KIA in Viet Nam would like to view this link, Please copy the link and forward it

 http://www.virtualwall.org/iStates.htm 
  

The link The Viet Nam Wall is a virtual wall of all those lost during the Viet Nam war with the names, bio's and other information on our lost heroes. Those who remember that time frame, or perhaps lost friends or family can look them up on this site.

(First click on a state. When it opens, scroll down to the city and the names will appear. Then click on their names. It should show you a picture of the person, or at least their bio and medals.)

Bud Dougherty

AWESOME, seen many times but never tire of it, just an awesome tribute for sure

USA 1965-1971

[hoosierdaddy]

FedEx is actually doing something with the wall too, basically they're trying to get a family submitted photo of every single person's name that is on the wall. I've worked for fedex since '06 and have tried to get the word out about this since they started it a year or so ago, dont feel they publicized it nearly enough. Everytime I talk with people who have war stories I refer this to them. Totally free for anyone interested.
Here's the link...
FedEx Updates - vietnam memorial

Thanks, I never knew this but appreciate the info.

Bill

[Yoda]

Vietnam history most people will never know, it is all on the Vietnam Memorial.

Interesting Statistics for the NUMBERS on the Vietnam Memorial Wall....


All gave some, Some gave ALL...
There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010.

The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties.

The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965.

There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.

39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.

8,283 were just 19 years old.

The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.

12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.

5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.

One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.

997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam ..

1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam ..

31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.

Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.

54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one school.

8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded.

244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall.

Beallsville , Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.

West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.

The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.

The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.

The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths.

The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred.

For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors.

Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veterans Day... and every day I wake is a GREAT DAY, THANK YOU Bro & Sis...

Bud