Hawai'i VII

Beautiful Hawai'i'. I managed during this journey to visit our 50th state on two different occasions.

Once to visit the state Vietnam memorial in Oahu and the second time to attend the dedication of a new memorial at the cemetery at The Punchbowl.

Today, I want to revert to the state memorial which seemed to take a back seat to the Punchbowl here and highlight just a couple of names from it.

There are 276 names etched here on individual blocks and today, I will honor just three.

 

These three, for now, must represent the total. I am sure that at some point I may feature a few more but until then these must suffice: heroes all.

Next time, on the 6th of April, I hope to highlight a few of the features from the memorial in Ennis, Ireland. Join me, as always, at 9:00 am.

If you are following along at all, you will have seen that a number of you, like Joan from Wisconsin, Tony from Texas, Mike from Maryland, Ron from Florida, Tim from Virginia, Molly from Florida, Colleen from Pennsylvania, Elli from Maryland, and Peg and Ray from Florida, among others, have responded to my request to send me memorials you have seen in your area or where you may have traveled. I even got one from Ireland! These submissions help expand the knowledge of how we have remembered the men and women who served and/or were lost in 'Nam and you help to honor them. If you have any such photos, I would love to see them. Please send them along to the email at the left and I will gladly share them here.

I hope all those listed here will encourage you to send along photos.