North Carolina XX

Lawrence Joel was a medic in 'Nam. He was shot twice, bandaged his own wounds and continued to aid his fellow soldiers.

He was awarded the Medal of Honor, the first medic to ever receive it and the first African American to receive it since the Spanish American war. He was also awarded the Silver Star.

He is credited with saving more than a dozen lives.

Read more of his heroic story here, it is a remarkable story.

He was from Winston Salem, North Carolina and in the 1980s a coliseum was built and named to honor him. It was the home to Wake Forest basketball among other things.

 

Outside the stadium are hundreds of  markers with the names of those lost in numerous wars. It is an amazing sight.

 

Not sure if everyone has heard the term Carolina Blue for the sky, but this pic does a pretty good job of representing it.

About 500 lost soldiers are honored here, many from Vietnam.

Next time, on the 3rd of February, we will revisit Ohio, so meet me there, as always, at 9:00am.

To see additional memorials from North Carolina, or any other state, please click on the state name on the left side of this page.

I will ask, as I do at the end of nearly every post now, for anyone who has pictures of Vietnam memorials not seen here to please send them to me. I will give you full photo credit for the pic and any information about it you may know. Check your state, or anywhere you may have visited, from the list at the left, or any place else. Please send them to the email at the left or directly to me at Ldddad@comcast.net. Thanks!