Posted on May 26, 2015
Denied for decades, Vietnam vet has place on the wall - Was this right?
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His name never appeared on the gleaming black granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington — though he died in 1967 at age 39 from an illness contracted in Vietnam.
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/denied-for-decades-vietnam-vet-has-place-on-the-wall-1.348502
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/denied-for-decades-vietnam-vet-has-place-on-the-wall-1.348502
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Yes this is right. He contracted an illness serving in Vietnam and deserved to have his name on the Wall from day one. Finally "they" got it right and fixed this grievous oversight/slight.
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I would have to say it's the right move. It may have been a non-combat fatality, but this service member did succumb to an illness he probably would have avoided had he not been in country. The veterans of Vietnam have been through a lot and it seems that in the wake of the GWOT, they're finally getting their due.
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