Louisiana X

One of the two memorials in New Orleans

Louisiana, as recently posted here, has dedicated their State Vietnam Memorial north of New Orleans.

 You can see more about this here.

Today, however, we will pay tribute to a few of those honored and remembered on this latest tribute. 

JamesThomas Hilton Cordova

SSGT James Cordova as lost on January 3, 1965, at Binh Dinh Province. He was lost while missing by "drowning or suffocation." I could find no other information.

Thomas Simon Malmay

SP4 Thomas Malmay was in Military Region 1, offshore in 'Nam. He was lost in an "air loss, crash at sea" on September 26, 1970. His chopper was lost in what is considered a non-hostile " incident. No other details were found.

Richard Jarrell Remedies

PFC Richard Remedies was lost at Bein Hoa on August 1, 1967, to "friendly fire." He was caught in a crossfire during a fire fight.

All of these men were from Zwolle, Louisiana.

Next time, on October 15th, join me in Maine. See you, as always, at 9:00 am.

If you have been 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 (several times now), Colleen from Pennsylvania (now three times!) Elli from Maryland and Peg and Ray from Florida (more than once!), among others have responded to my request to send memorials you have seen in your area or from where you have traveled. I even got one from Ireland.

These generous submissions have helped to expand the knowledge of how we remember and honor the men and women who served in or were lost in Vietnam.

I thank all who have participated.

If YOU have any such photos or knowledge about these memorials and sites not already here, I would love to know of them. Please send them along to the email address on the left side of this page and I will gladly share them here.

I hope all these listed here will encourage YOU to send along photos and join the group.