There are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...thousands of those American dead were only letters cut in black granite. This Veterans Day, type any name from the Wall into the Wall of Faces online. A face looks back at you. All 58,281 of them.

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ransomnote: Here's the link to the online Vietnam Memorial website: https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/ 

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There are 58,281 names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and for decades thousands of those American dead were only letters cut in black granite.

Even the man who founded the Wall doubted a photograph could be found for every one. On August 9, 2022, the last face was found.

It began small. Janna Hoehn, a floral designer on Maui with no personal tie to the war, visited the Wall, picked a name at random and made a rubbing of it.

She wanted a photo of that man and could not find one. A cousin who knew genealogy finally did.

She sent it to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, and the Fund asked her to find the 42 fallen from Maui County. She went through old high school yearbooks and had all 42 in six months.

Then she kept going, state by state.

In 2014 more than 24,000 faces were still missing.

That year a Wisconsin newspaper publisher named Andrew Johnson joined the hunt. His son, 1st Lt. David Johnson, had been killed in Afghanistan in January 2012 at age 24.

Johnson said many Vietnam veterans "embraced me and let me know how much they loved my son." He rallied newspapers across his state, and in 2016 his own paper printed a section showing every Wisconsin face.

In western New York the final man had no picture anywhere. No school and no library had a copy of his high school yearbook.

A researcher found one for sale on eBay and bought it.

Puerto Rico was harder still. Hoehn said Hurricane Maria had destroyed libraries and high schools there, and New York libraries had no old yearbooks. Sometimes volunteers found the family and the family had no photo to share.

So for the last names the team got each man's basic training location from the national records center, and a volunteer searched old basic training books.

Hoehn's team posted about 8,000 photos. She found about 5,000 of them herself.

Hundreds of volunteers did the rest: cold calls, obituaries, library visits, small-town newspapers.

This Veterans Day, type any name from the Wall into the Wall of Faces online. A face looks back at you.

All 58,281 of them.

 

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one thing I didn't know for years: the names aren't alphabetical. they're in the order the men were lost, so people who died together are still next to each other on the wall

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[FamiliarFace]

Very cool. Thank you.

[SunkenCiv]

This isn't getting added to the GGG catalog, just pinging the lists.

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[left that other site]

Paul Francis Reid
Lance Corporal
H CO, 2ND BN, 5TH MARINES, 1ST MARDIV, III MAF
United States Marine Corps
West Roxbury, Massachusetts
November 11, 1948 to November 06, 1967
PAUL F REID is on the Wall at Panel 29E, Line 34
See the full profile or name rubbing for Paul Reid
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Combat Action Ribbon

Paul F Reid
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[SunkenCiv]

https://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/

[Adder]

Oh wow...that’s awesome.

[lee martell]

That’s a remarkable and practical use of modern technology, one that the average American can personally benefit from right now.

[montag813]

Now THAT’S how you honor their sacrifice. Wow!

[Inyo-Mono]

I had a young shop teacher while in high school who was drafted into the Army in 1967 and less than a year later was KIA in Vietnam. I’ll have to pull out my old high school year book to get his name and look him up.

[RobertoinAL]

Great site!!!

[Chainmail]

I'm happy that so many folks have gone to so much trouble to find faces and memories of the thousands of young men who died in Vietnam. It's a wonderful thing and means a lot to those of us who were lucky enough to return; those were our friends.

Please also remember those additional young men who were killed in training on their way to Vietnam. We lost hundreds, maybe even thousands, in flying accidents, vehicle accidents, explosive training, weapons accidents.

When I got back from Vietnam, I was assigned to a helicopter advanced training squadron and we lost 11 dead in one month due to flaws in the design of the CH-46 while I was there -I was very nearly one of them.

Please remember them in your prayers too on this Veteran's Day.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Wow, never knew this existed. Found the helicopter pilot husband of a widowed neighbor from my childhood just from the last name and also his story on that site from the Remembrances. All we kids ever heard about him was that he was killed in Vietnam in a chopper “accident”. Amazing.

[kawhill]

https://www.virtualwall.org/ds/SouthallJG01a.htm

[Cen-Tejas]

Thank you for posting this. I was able to find my boyhood buddy, Bobby Roberts, 21 years old and killed in August 1969. I was stationed in Sasebo and did not know that I was in Sasebo the day he was killed in Nam. Thanks again. He was a fantastic buddy and human being!