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> A little history most people will never know.
> Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
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> There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall,
> including those added in 2010.
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> The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us
> by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to
> believe it is 57 years since the first casualty.
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> The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth,
> Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed
> on June 8, 1956 . His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son,
> Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Richard B. Fitzgibbon III, who was killed on
> Sept. 7, 1965.
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> There are three sets of fathers and sons on the Wall.
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> 39,996 on the Wall were just 22 or younger.
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> 8,283 were just 19 years old.
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> The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
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> 12 soldiers on the Wall were 17 years old.
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> 5 soldiers on the Wall were 16 years old.
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> One soldier, PFC Dan Bullock was 15 years old.
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> 997 soldiers were killed on their first day in Vietnam ..
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> 1,448 soldiers were killed on their last day in Vietnam ..
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> 31 sets of brothers are on the Wall.
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> Thirty one sets of parents lost two of their sons.
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> 54 soldiers attended Thomas Edison High School in Philadelphia . I
> wonder why so many from one school.
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> 8 Women are on the Wall, Nursing the wounded.
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> 244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War;
> 153
> of them are on the Wall.
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> Beallsville, Ohio with a population of 475 lost 6 of her sons.
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> West Virginia had the highest casualty rate per capita in the nation.
> There are 711 West Virginians on the Wall.
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> The Marines of Morenci - They led some of the scrappiest high school
> football and basketball teams that the little Arizona copper town of
> Morenci (pop. 5,058) had ever known and cheered. They enjoyed roaring
> beer busts. In quieter moments, they rode horses along the Coronado
> Trail, stalked deer in the Apache National Forest . And in the
> patriotic camaraderie typical of Morenci's mining families, the nine
> graduates of Morenci High enlisted as a group in the Marine Corps.
> Their service began on Independence Day, 1966. Only 3 returned home.
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> The Buddies of Midvale - LeRoy Tafoya, Jimmy Martinez, Tom Gonzales
> were all boyhood friends and lived on three consecutive streets in
> Midvale, Utah on Fifth, Sixth and Seventh avenues. They lived only a
> few yards apart. They played ball at the adjacent sandlot ball field.
> And they all went to Vietnam . In a span of 16 dark days in late 1967,
> all three would be killed. LeRoy was killed on Wednesday, Nov. 22, the
> fourth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Jimmy died less
> than 24 hours later on Thanksgiving Day. Tom was shot dead assaulting
> the enemy on Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
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> The most casualty deaths for a single day was on January 31, 1968 ~
> 245 deaths.
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> The most casualty deaths for a single month was May 1968 - 2,415
> casualties were incurred.
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> For most Americans who read this they will only see the numbers that
> the Vietnam War created. To those of us who survived the war, and to
> the families of those who did not, we see the faces, we feel the pain
> that these numbers created. We are, until we too pass away, haunted
> with these numbers, because they were our friends, fathers, husbands,
> wives, sons and daughters. There are no noble wars, just noble
> warriors.
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> Â Please pass this on to those who served during this time, and those
> who DO Care . Â
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> I've also sent this to those I KNOW do care very much, and I thank you
> for caring as you do.
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