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The Augusta-Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) Vietnam War Veterans Memorial is a granite and bronze monument placed in Augusta, Georgia, March 29, 2019, to honor the CSRA's 169 Vietnam War dead, three Ex-Prisoners of War (Vietnam), and one former Missing in Action (MIA) as well as the region's 15,000 surviving Vietnam War Veterans.
Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Papillion, Nebraska; Augusta-CSRA Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, Augusta, Georgia [2] Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Boston; Inland Northwest Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Riverfront Park, Spokane; Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Frankfort, Kentucky; National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court ...
During the summer of 2020, Augusta Mayor Hardie Davis created the Task Force on Confederate Monuments, Street Names and Landmarks.. The eleven member task force – consisting of local historians, educators, descendants of Confederate figures, and community activists – was charged with examining the renaming, relocating, or removal of places in Augusta that honor Confederate military figures.
A controversial statue of a Confederate soldier has been taken down by officials from the center of a prominent square in Georgia, leading to protests in the area. The removal of the monument at ...
Photos play an important role in our understanding of history.They provide additional details about people, places, and events from different eras that written records sometimes simply cannot portray.
Now, a veterans group is planning to build a 6 1/2-foot-high black granite monument dedicated to the 23 Harlingen soldiers killed during the war from 1961 to 1975. As part of the project, city ...
A 1995 demographic study in Population and Development Review calculated 791,000–1,141,000 war-related Vietnamese deaths, both soldiers and civilians, for all of Vietnam from 1965 to 1975. The study came up with a most likely Vietnamese death toll of 882,000, which included 655,000 adult males (above 15 years of age), 143,000 adult females ...
In Wallace Terry's book, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, Specialist 5 Harold "Light Bulb" Bryant, Combat Engineer, 1st Cavalry Division, U.S. Army, An Khe, February 1966 – February 1967, relates: [23] Well, these white guys would sometimes take the dog-tag chain and fill that up with ears. For different reasons.