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Photos Sought for Fallen Local Vietnam Vets
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund wants a photo for every name on "The Wall" in D.C. -- including those from Healdsburg.
What if you could put a face to every name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.?
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund hopes you can.
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The National Call for Photos is a project organized by the VVMF to match a headshot or portrait photograph to every service member listed on The Wall.
The pictures will be displayed in an exhibit at the future Education Center at The Wall, an underground visitors center to be built near the Vietnam Veterans and the Lincoln memorials. Every day, the center will celebrate the birthdays of service members who died during the Vietnam War by featuring their photos on a giant digital wall.
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So far, 25,526 veterans have complete profiles with at least one photograph, according to George Pojani, a research associate at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. These profiles are currently featured on The Virtual Wall, an online database of the Memorial's veterans.
To locate photos for the project, contributors can visit www.vvmf.org/thewall and search for veterans who enlisted in their area. The VVMF recommends contacting family and friends of the veterans to find photographs or visit local libraries and search through yearbooks or newspaper obituaries.
Among the Healdsburg area names on the VVMF website are:
CLINTON RUSSELL ANDERSON 2LT ARMY HEALDSBURG CA 7/10/1941 - 2/22/1966
SP4 ARMY HEALDSBURG CA 1/17/1947 - 8/9/1965
A1C AIR FORCE HEALDSBURG CA 8/7/1943 - 3/29/1967
BUR2 NAVY HEALDSBURG CA 6/20/1932 - 12/15/1967
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Behind every name, a story. Our goal is to collect photos for all 58,272 veterans on The Wall. It was thousands of individuals who helped build the Memorial; now we are calling on you once again.
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Today We Remember
On April 24, 162 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1964, 1 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1965, 7 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1966, 13 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1967, 28 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1968, 38 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1969, 20 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1970, 22 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1971, 26 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day in 1972, 7 service members made the ultimate sacrifice.
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To submit a photograph, contributors should obtain a high quality scan of the image and post a remembrance at http://www.vvmf.org/remembrances. The VVMF will send an email to contributors when their photograph is posted with a matching profile.
Relatives of service members with complete profiles are encouraged to submit photographs to the VVMF, even if there is already a photo available.
Pojani says that the contributors to the National Call for Photos will help improve the visitor's experience at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
"It's a place where people can go back and find stories about all the casualties on the Wall," Pojani said about the future Education Center. "It will be more personal than just names on the Wall."
Elk Grove Patch staff contributed to this report.
