Delaware XXIX

As I peruse my photo files I continue to find things I have not posted previously. This time it was from Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware. You may recall that Dover is where so many, many lost soldiers returned to on their way to home or Arlington or some other final resting place.

Today, just a few more names, one survivor and two lost heroes.

These all served and have earned our recognition and respect.

I posted previously about the lost plane on which the 2nd and third listed here were lost. You can see that post here.

Next time, on the 17th of March, we will return to Florida where readers have just sent me numerous photos from a memorial site there. So, as always, join me there at 9:00 am. 

To see Vietnam memorials from any state and Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico click on the individual names on the left side of this page.

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 and Molly from Florida, Colleen from Pennsylvania, Elli from Maryland, and next time 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 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.

 Thanks, once again, to all who have contributed.

Colorado XLIV

Returning, as I so often do, to Fountain, Colorado to the remarkable Railroad Park. The Wall here list dozens, if not hundreds, of names of those from the area that served our country. Not all were lost but all deserve to be remembered

All gave some, some gave all.

 I have posted from here before (and will continue to do so) and you can see a few of those other posts here, here, and here.

Today, simple three more heroes.

 

Next time, on the 12th of March, we will return to Delaware. So, as always, join me there at 9:00 am. 

To see Vietnam memorials from any state and Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico click on the individual names on the left side of this page.

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 and Molly from Florida, Colleen from Pennsylvania, and very soon Elli from Maryland, 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 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. Thanks, once again, to all who have contributed.

California XLV

This is the 55th post I have made from California. When I started this project in 2009, I thought I might post four pictures of memorials from each state.

Circumstances changed all that and now 55 from California, amazing to me.

It is fitting I suppose as California with its nearly 40 million in population is, perhaps not surprisingly, the state that lost the most of her citizens. More than 350,000 served and 5,822 were killed. These numbers vary a bit depending on whose source you read.

Today, we return to the Nixon Library, a place I never thought I would see, to visit an exhibit about bringing home the POWs. It is quite extensive and interesting. You can see previous visits here and here.

With the publication of Kristin Hannah's book The Women which tells story of the heroics of the Nurses in Vietnam, I have been thinking more lately about how women served, participated, and influenced our efforts in the war.

This brought me to this table, in a corner, at the library.

It shines a light on the efforts of the wives of the POWs, their efforts to bring home their husbands, brothers, Uncles: our comrades.

It may be impossible to ever know exactly just how much influence or weight these efforts may have had upon the history of and the lives of our captured fellows, but, most certainly, it helped.

Our gratitude and debt to these can never be overestimated.

Next time, on the 7th of March, we will return to Colorado, so join me there, as usual, at 9:00 am.

To see Vietnam memorials from any state or Canada, Ireland, and Puerto Rico click on the individual names on the left side of this page.

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 and Molly from Florida, Colleen from Pennsylvania, and Elli from Maryland, 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 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. Thanks, once again, to all who have contributed.