[ Front ]

For the Veterans of Vietnam

For the M.I.A.s

For you fallen comrades

For those who came home

For your Heroic efforts abroad

For your Greater efforts at home

With belated acknowledgment

of your duties performed,

for God and Country;

We offer our heart-felt

gratitude in saying - -

at long last

Welcome Home

[ Bronze Plaque ]

This memorial is dedicated to the glory of Almighty God

in memory of men from Vigo County who gave their

lives in the Republic of South Vietnam who by their

unselfish Patriotism have advanced the American

ideals of Liberty and the Universal Brotherhood of man

1965 - Capt Eugene R. Fowler - Army

1965 - Sgt Paul L. Lemay - Army

1966 - PFC Herman R. Meneely - Army

1966 - SSGT Robert R. Myles - USAF

1966 - SSGT James W. Sims - Army

1967 - CWO Quentin R. Beecher - Army

1967 - CPL James E. Gish - Army

1967 - SGT Stephen P. Jones - Army

1967 - PFC Pearl W. Myers - USMC

1967 - PFC William H. Richardson, Jr. - Army

1968 - SGT Paul M. Ash - Army

1968 - SP4 Michael W. Chaney - Army

1968 - 1Lt John C. Dougherty - Army

1968 - SSGT Franklin M. Ellinger - USMC

1968 - SSGT James C. Haugh - Army

1968 - PFC John E. Heyen - Army

1968 - PFC Jack J. Kupferer - Army

1968 - SP4 Karl W. Lawson - Army

1968 - SP4 Franklin A. Sappingfield - Army

1968 - SP4 Theodore A. Sweatt - Army

1969 - PFC Leonard C. Ivy, Jr. - Army

1969 - LCPL Leslie W. McKillop - USMC

1969 - 1LT Steven G. Schimmel - Army

1970 - CPL Larry J. McDowell - Army

1971 - LT Paul R. Foltz - Navy

1971 - CPL Mark J. Houston - Army

1972 - SSGT Donald F. Yeryar - Army

Plaque donated by VFW Post 972

Dedicated May 27, 1996

Marker is on Ohio Street south of South 3rd Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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