Statistics of the Vietnam Memorial Wall

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[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]A little history most people will never know. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth, Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1965. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on Sept. 7, 1965. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]8,283 were just 19 years old.
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The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.[/B]
12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]1,448 soldiers were killed on their last assigned date in Vietnam. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]31 sets of brothers are on the Wall. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons. [/FONT][/FONT]





[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I wonder why so many from one school. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]8 Women are on the Wall. Nursing the wounded. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War; 153 of them are on the Wall. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation. There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall. [/FONT][/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest. And in the patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps. Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home. [/FONT][/FONT]




[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field. And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967, all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. [/FONT][/FONT]






[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~ 245 deaths. [/FONT] [/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415 casualties were incurred. [/FONT][/FONT]





[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain that these numbers created We are, until we too pass away, haunted with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands, wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble warriors. [/FONT][/FONT]






[FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=helvetica]Please pass this on to those who served during this time, and those who do care.[/FONT][/FONT]
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I still shed a tear..... But after [for me] 48 YEARS I ask;'
[size=3]WHAT THE HELL WERE WE DOING OVER THERE.........:AGGHH:[/SIZE]

[QUOTE=rhino 2;292306]I still shed a tear..... But after [for me] 48 YEARS I ask;'
[size=3]WHAT THE HELL WERE WE DOING OVER THERE.........:AGGHH:[/SIZE][/QUOTE]


Well, I was too young and I was told to go, so i went. Glad I made it back to the World.

Enemies of freedom profess their philosophies are founded in religion and are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice promoting it.

Lovers of freedom profess their philosophies are founded in religion are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to preserve it.


Lord, let the Lovers of freedom prevail.

[QUOTE=Sully;292307]Well, I was too young and I was told to go, so i went. Glad I made it back to the World.
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I also was too young, But the ones who sent us were old enough ,or should have been old to know. Eisenhower sent advisers, They got picked off, Kennedy sent his prize Green Berets, And they got picked off, Johnson came up with the Tonkin/Domino B/S, And the rest is tragic history... And don't get me into the fake body count......:AGGHH:

I have been to The Wall and to the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown.

Both places are sacred and the silence and reverence displayed by people who are there shows that the general public does care. Even the kids seem subdued. I rubbed my hand across the names of two "kids" that were in my class in school. They were good guys and I still miss them.

Our town I believe lost 8 young men. They were all a year or two older than me, but I knew them all.
The Moving Wall came to our town in August of 95. I got to help build the base for it to set on and help put it up. This was a great and humbling experience. The men that brought it in handled it with kid gloves putting it up and taking it back down.
This was awesome. This is kind of strange, but for several years where the wall was standing you could see the impression of the base and the grass just barely grew there. I know this wasn't the real wall, but it represented those fallen young Americans. :(

It still really hurts

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Larry Pollack and Lance Sijan. May you rest in peace.

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The moving wall was here last week. I have been to Washington and went to Arlington and it is a place where you start thinking your name could be on the wall, and by the grace of God it's not. I try to remember and thank all of my fellow service personnel for their service and the sacrifice they have made.