"You are not Forgotten Brothers, at least by those who served with you, as you look down on the Country of many who don't want to be reminded of while we have what we promised would never happen again, Two ongoing Occupations of Choice!!"
Although covered by George Jones, this song was written (and recorded) by Jamie O'Hara. There's teddy bears and high school rings, And old photographs that mamas bring. Of daddies with their young boys playin' ball. .......To More at the YouTube Post of
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial - The Wall
Memorial Day Miracle At 'The Wall'
Morning Edition, May 22, 2009 · Allen Hoe, 62, served as a combat medic in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.
His son, K. Nainoa Hoe, served as a first lieutenant infantry officer with the Army's 3rd Battalion in Mosul, Iraq. He died there on Jan. 22, 2005, at the age of 27.
On Memorial Day that year, Allen traveled to Washington, D.C., from his home in Honolulu for services being held at the Vietnam Memorial, often referred to as "the wall." Army nurses returning home from the war were being honored there that day.........
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Family perseveres to get vet's name on Vietnam memorial
Enrique Valdez, who became a quadriplegic when his spinal cord was severed by shrapnel in Vietnam, "couldn't cough by himself" and relied on others "to press on his diaphragm to help him," his daughter Tina recalls.
The Santa Fe veteran also suffered bouts of pneumonia "due to his war injury. The paralysis affected his lungs," she says.
So when the former Marine succumbed at age 56 to pneumonia in 1994 — nearly 25 years after he was wounded — his children asked to have his name added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. After all, his death certificate said his passing was directly attributable to his spinal cord injury, which he suffered in combat......
