Remembering

Last week we had to opportunity to see the traveling version of the Vietnam Memorial Wall.  Tony has an uncle that died  in the Vietnam war so we thought this would be a great opportunity for us.  It was amazing.  All a bit overwhelming actually.

They had a place there you could give them the name of the person you were looking for and they typed it into a data base and printed off the location of the name on the wall and a bunch of additional information about the person.  It took her under a minute to find Tony's uncle. 

Last Name HANAWALD
First Name LEN
Middle MARTIN
Home Town ALBUQUERQUE
Home State NM

Panel 18W
Line 28

Age 33
Gender M
Branch ARMY
Rank LTC

Date of Birth 09/09/1935
Casualty Date 03-Sep-69
Tour Date 05/06/1969
Length of Service 12
Event
Cas Detail 1 HOSTILE, DIED WOUNDS
Cas Detail 2 SMALL ARMS FIRE
Cas Detail 3 GROUND CASUALTY
Major Org USARV
Division 101ST ABN DIV
Regiment 506TH INFANTRY
Battalion 2ND BN
Company HHC

The panel in the picture below list all the soldiers that died from August 29th - September 23, 1969.  That is only 26 days.  That is A LOT of names.

They also had a display of all the names of the soldiers that have died in the war since 9/11.  I hope I never see my boys name on this wall.