A Battle on LZ Ike as Told by a Listening Post Trooper
This article was written by Douglas Crow who served with D/2/5, 1st Cav. This is an example of the excellent stories that are stored in the minds of soldiers who served their country so bravely. Most of the books written about war are either written by brass or taken from military reports. Doug's article gives this account from the eyes and ears of a grunt. No other person can tell Doug's story as well as he has told it. Thanks to Douglas ...
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Vietnam Medal of Honor Winner Dies
SSG David C. DOLBY, 64, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on 21 May, 1966, died August 6 in Spirit Lake, Idaho while visiting friends.
David Dolby was born 14 May, 1946 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. His father worked for BF Goodrich and was a Prisoner of War during World War II.
SSG Dolby, known as “Mad Dog” to friends that served with him was a big man who ...
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The original information taken from a “Note from the Virtual Wall” on the memorial for Robert Lane, 1st Battalion, 77th Artillery contained 23 names. As of August 12, 2009, the Coffelt database records were updated and verified to add two names from A Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.
A Note from The Virtual Wall
During the period immediately prior to the Cambodian incursion US and ARVN units conducted extensive ...
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Letters Home-Vietnam 1968-1969
The Virtual Wall
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The Virtual Wall has a new format for the website effective November 11, 2009. Visit it at http://www.virtualwall.org/index.html .
The Virtual Wall is an on-line Vietnam War memorial. The website opened on March 23, 1997 and is run by the not-for-profit organization, www.VirtualWall.org Ltd.
The Virtual Wall originally only had a separate memorial page for each casualty remembered by those requesting the creation of a memorial page.
Effective November 11, every casualty listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) in Washington D.C. now has a basic memorial page on The Virtual Wall, not just those who had one requested.
Each basic memorial page contains casualty (basic and expanded) information and graphics of military unit patches and awards. The Virtual Wall database will continue to accumulate information from relatives or friends of a casualty contributing remembrances, photographs and their own details to The Virtual Wall using the websites free-to-use facilities. For the prior existing memorial pages, the website includes a list of those awarded military honors, the use of photographs in a pictorial index and a search facility. It has enabled thousands of contacts between relatives and military buddies of a casualty. The Virtual Wall is modeled on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, DC, USA, which has the names of over 58,000 American military men.
As soon as The Virtual Wall resumes accepting requests for adding more information to the basic pages, the new memorial pages may contain one or more photographs, remembrances, citations of awards for valor, and a synopsis of the incident that caused the loss of life, the same as the older memorial pages contain.
For anyone wishing to add a link to their web site (send to any webmaster you know who may be interested), you can now add a link from your web site to lists of Vietnam War casualties from cities or towns in your area.
The state index pages of The Virtual Wall have named anchors for every city and town that had casualties, for example:
http://www.VirtualWall.org/istate/istatco.htm#denver Denver, CO
http://www.VirtualWall.org/istate/istatde.htm#newcastle New Castle, DE
All links should begin with http://www.VirtualWall.org/istate/istat // this link does not go to a page
then the two-letter state abbreviation
then .htm#
then the city of town name, no spaces, all lower case
(We read that some browsers are case-sensitive to named anchors)
Please pass this information to anyone you know who may be interested in seeing the new version of The Virtual Wall and a basic memorial page for their loved one.
Jack Morrison
LinkMaster,
The Virtual Wall.
Do You Remember 'Silver Dagger'?
Normally I would simply enter a reply on line and will do so again if you wish, but I really would appreciate it if you could send this on to Joe Hogg, if you have his email. I have been trying to reach anyone who could recall the term of "Silver Dagger" Sections that were put up for Illingworth, and particularly the team that stayed on station until they just about ran out of fuel. He siad he was the one we are looking for.
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Two Brothers United
After 32 years two Vietnam veterans, Emilio (Gabby) Luna and Charles Rushing, Jr. of Northport AL, were reunited Friday Mar. 22nd 2002 in Bay City TX
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