Jackson Township veteran getting final wish to visit Vietnam memorial

Al Boren, 67, will make the trip of a lifetime today to Washington, D.C.

The Vietnam War veteran and his wife, Janis, will take an Honor Flight to see the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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14 names added to Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The fact that Seamans and Mauldin died of service-related causes made their names eligible for addition to the wall.

 According to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the Defense Department makes the difficult and often technical decision of whose names go on the wall.

 DoD reviews individual requests for names to be added to memorial and can, on its own, add names omitted in error.

 All 14 of the newly added service members sustained wounds within the combat zone that eventually contributing to their deaths, meeting DoD’s criteria.

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Tracing sickness back to Vietnam War

If you have a loved one who was in Vietnam and died due to complications from exposure to Agent Orange or other causes attributed to being in Vietnam, fill out an application to have him or her added to the "In Memory Honor Roll." The ceremony gave my siblings, my sister-in-law and me yet another chance to grieve the life of this remarkable man and allowed us to meet other families who lost their loved ones, too. A description of the program and the application are on this website: http://www.vvmf.org/InMemoryProgram

I thank all the veterans for their service to our country and salute them this Veterans Day and every day.

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Memorial mission continues for affected Vietnam vets

For Andreotti, adding a memorial bench alongside the existing war monuments felt like the least he could do for a group of men who have endured a unique set of challenges over the past three-plus decades.

He likened it to the national In Memory program, sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), which recognizes all of those deaths that were service-connected yet do not fit the criteria for inclusion on the Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.

"The In Memory program"” according to the VVMF website, "began in an effort to acknowledge the hardships these veterans and their families went through and the strengths they possessed after the war ended. The In Memory program honors the sacrifices these veterans and their families made"”

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Wall of Memories: Vietnam Vets take Emotional Yellow Ribbon Honor Flight

"Forty-seven years ago, I boarded a plane here to go to Vietnam. There was nobody here to send me off," said James Sitter of Oshkosh.

More than four decades after the Vietnam War came to an end, these veterans still feel a brokenness inside.

The thought of visiting the Vietnam Memorial Wall today is overwhelming for many.

"Some of them probably still won't be able to walk up to it," Mike Weaver of Kaukauna said about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. "It's all their friends, their compatriots, their classmates, their buddies are on that wall and they aren't names to them, they're human beings."

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