do you know any names on the vietnam memorial, the wall?

know some because as former infantryman and f.o. in arty battry, nearly got on that wall myself

Names on the Wall are listed chronology. If you do not know the date of "Hill's" death there is a book at the end of the Wall that will assist you in locating the individual. I have been to a lot of memorials during my life, but my first visit was so awe inspiring and almost spiritual in nature. When we crossed the line to see the Wall, it seems that all noise just stopped. It was quite an experience. Such a simple memorial but so full of meaning and sad.. And one that you won't forget. So many young lives given up for our country. Regardless of how you might feel about the VN War they made the ultimate sacrifice when there country called them to duty. The Halls of Valhalla must be teeming with members of the American military from all generations.

As a teenager back in the mid 60's, I bowled in a junior league with a guy by the name of Steve Bowersock. Guess we were about 15 at the time. Anyway, his name is on that wall. Or, atleast, I presume it is, as I have never actually seen it.

Thankfully, no. I used to work in downtown Washington and would walk by the Wall on a daily basis. Even though there's no one on the Wall I know, I would still get choked up by the large number of names and the obvious heartache of some of the visitors.

It was in a nearby town recently. I had the opportunity to go and view it.It is beautiful,but yet it seems to cry out at you the lost of all those young lives,God Bless My husband lost a relative during that war and was able to make a rubbing of his name as it appears on the wall.

Yes. He was that kid in everyone's class who was a little bit slow and who struggled and was picked on all the way through school. He was drafted just days after graduation and was killed his first week in Vietnam. Today he probably wouldn't be able to pass the test to get into the armed services, but back then they were taking just about everyone, putting them through boot camp and shipping them off as quickly as possible.

Yes

No, but my husband, who was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam and miraculously came home in one piece though greatly disillusioned, would. Walking down and past the Memorial Wall was one of the most profoundly moving experiences of my life.

Not anyone personally but there were a few from my county, and I knew their families. I learned today that the 'traveling wall' will be in my hometown soon. I would like to see it, but am not able to make the trip.

I'm sure I do, was writing to several during the war who all of a sudden stopped writing. One was John McDonald, came from a large family in New York. I suspect he never made it home.

Unfortunately 1, a 19 year old neighbor.