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Personal story not directly related to article.

I do genealogy research for my family. One of the first lessons learned was that names are not unique. What I mean is many people share the same name, you can not go just by name you need additional facts to go with a name to know if the person with the name belongs in your family tree.

A good example is that I found my name on the Vietnam memorial wall! First, middle initial and Last are the same. The age was off by a year and the date he was killed was after I was there but to someone doing casual research could think it was me.

I researched the young man and found we did not share much of anything except a name and having been in Vietnam.

Looking back I was an infantryman and I often wondered just how close I came to being a name on the wall.

Followed closely by why did I live and he died.