‘Faces Never Forgotten’: A nationwide search for photos of Vietnam soldiers The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation project Faces Never Forgotten is trying to collect the photos of all fallen Vietnam veterans across Texas and the nation. A few months ago, the VVMF issued a news release about its efforts to locate the photos of all 58,286 soldiers listed on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. The foundation will build a new Education Center near the existing memorial on the National Mall. Construction is planned to begin in 2016 and be completed in 2019. The Center will include an electronic Wall of Faces corresponding to the names on the Wall. So far, 34,000 photos of the soldiers listed on the Wall have been collected with more than 24,000 left to find. Of the missing photos, 1,426 are from Texas. As part of the effort to gather these photos, the Foundation has enlisted the help of the Texas Press Association and its member newspapers. Among the missing photos of Texas servicemen and women killed in the Vietnam War are the following individuals from communities in the northeastern Panhandle: From Canadian: Army SP4 Junior B. Pack (died 06/29/67) From Allison: Army PFC Willie George Lewis Jr (died 10/11/69) From Darrouzett: Army SGT Michael Edward Koschke (died 03/20/71) From Shamrock: Army SGT Russell Dan Wollard (died 2/11/69), Army 1LT Rayburn Lester Smith III (died 09/19/70) , and Army SP4 James Wesley Rowlett (died 09/27/66) From Spearman: Army PFC Lloyd Lynn Buzzard (died 06/19/69), Army CPL George Thomas Gibner (died 06/30/69) From Stinnett: Marine Corps PFC Marvin Dale Hawthorne (died 08/16/67) From Pampa: Marine Corps PFC Rickey Joe Marson (died 04/07/68), Army SP4 David Paul Roy (died 04/04/70) From McLean: Air Force CAPT James Lon McCarty (died 06/24/72) From Memphis: Army SSGT Lee Roy Hodges (died 10/16/67), Army SP4 Roger Gale Justus (died 11/30/67). From Clarendon: Air Force CAPT Dean Amick Wadsworth (died 10/08/63) If you have information that would be helpful in locating photos of any of these soldiers, please contact Laurie Ezzell Brown at The Canadian Record, by calling 806.323.6461 or via email at laurie@canadianrecord, or contact the newspaper located in the serviceman’s hometown. FOR MORE INFORMATION: To view the gallery in progress or get more information, go to vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces. The goal is to locate all missing pictures by Nov. 11, 2014. Please support this worthy nationwide effort.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:16:35 +0000
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