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Blowing Rock, NC as mentioned in a previous post is about 40 miles Southwest of Mt. Airy.
These two names are the only ones listed from the area on the multi-war memorial there.
LTC Parsons had just left a brief reunion with his wife in Hawai'i' when an urgent mission to help rescue trapped marines was called. He never made it and was MIA for decades and is remembered here in NC as one of his lives in the area.
Please take a moment to read this wonderful article from The Washington Post about this hero:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.com/deparsons.htm
SST. Green was lost on January 2, 1967 at Binh Duong. He, and others, were killed by a tripped mine. Fortunately his body was recovered.
His home of Record was Lenoir, NC.
I ask you to join me on the 6th of July when we will return to North Dakota to add and honor a few more faces, as always at 9:00 am.
These pictures were taken from a photo sent to me by a reader. Mike Minnick has honored several memorials by forwarding them to me and I am greatly appreciative to him and all those listed below.
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 and join the group!
