Nebraska XXI

Prospect Hill Cemetery is in Norfolk, Nebraska. I have featured it elsewhere on this site. 

Today, I will honor several of the fallen from the area.

As you may be able to see there are nine heroes remembered here. The first three are:

Sp4 Strube was guiding mortar track and strayed slightly off course. He hit a land mine and was killed by the blast. He gave his all on February 24, 1970, at Binh Thuan.

Buel E. Andersen

SGT Andersen was lost to "multiple fragmentation wounds" on April 21, 1969, at Binh Duong. I am sure, if you are a regular here, that you may be tired of my complaining about the lack of information available about these men and women who gave their all for their country.

James R. Schultz

Sp4 Schultz was lost to "other explosive device" on September 20, 1968, at Binh Duong.

If you read this or any other post here and know something more about the men and women I try to honor, please let me know. The available info is scarce, and we may be running out of time to do justice to them.

Next time, on March 15th, we will return to Nevada to honor a few who were lost from the state, so join me there, as usual 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 and join the group.

Nebraska XIV

While browsing through my files, at least thinking about organizing them better, I stumbled across this memorial. I knew it was in Nebraska, but could not remember exactly where.

Usually, I find some sign or street sign or something to remind me, but there was just nothing here. I noticed the three dedication marks near the bottom, VFW, DAV, and American Legion, so I looked up their numbers and called but no one could help me, or I haven't heard back from them as of today.

I was eventually able to determine that it is located in Norfolk, Nebraska and then, later, learned that it is in Prospect Hill Cemetery.

It is a combined Korea and Vietnam memorial, listing names of the lost from each.

When I was checking all this out I was surprised to see the Prospect Hill is located on Johnny Carson Blvd. (at Maple Avenue) I guess only those of us of a certain age will consider that interesting. I thought that maybe he was born in Nebraska, but it turns out he was born in Iowa. So...

On our next visit, we will be in New Mexico, so join me there at 9:00am on October 6th..

To see other memorials from Nebraska, or any other state, click the state name on the left side of this page.

Pennsylvania IV

I really liked this memorial, so I decided to include it, even though it does not precisely meet the criteria of Vietnam Memorials.

The Prospect Hill Cemetery, in York, Pa. built this site to honor anyone who had been awarded the medals of Valor. It sits high on a hill overlooking the cemetery. The most intriguing component, I suppose, is that the lintel across the top is an actual piece of the World Trade Center. So, you might say that the site also pays homage to the 9-11 victims and heroes, as well.

You can find more information at;

http://www.prospecthill.org/CourtOfValor.htm