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Oregon Veterans: Remembering Those Who Died in the Vietnam War
During the Vietnam War, 710 Oregonians died. There are now pictures of all of them.
They are all there.
Roy Curry of Gresham.
Ronald Hill of Beaverton.
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Dale Perkins of Oregon City.
Andrew Abramson of Lake Oswego.
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Larry Claybrook of Hillsboro.
Larry Gifford of Portland.
There are 710 of them in all.
There were 710 Oregonians who died during the Vietnam War and now there are pictures of all of them.
For years, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - the nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to build and maintain the memorial commonly known as The Wall - has been working to collect photos of every person whose name is on The Wall.
Of the 58,000 names on the memorial, the Fund has managed to collect around 46,000.
They call the project: The Wall of Faces.
They have been keeping track by state and on Monday, Oregon came the 10th state to have photos collected for each of its veterans.
Charles Bauman of Maupin, who died in 1966, was the final piece of the puzzle.
The Fund attributes the fund to Janna Hoehn, Wall of Faces volunteer who had been working on Oregon for two years.
You can see all of Oregon's veterans here.
The fund says that the states now closest to completion are Nevada (1), Utah (3), Alaska (4), Colorado (15), and Washington (16).
All the photos - while online now - will eventually be displayed in the Education Center at The Wall.
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