Help Find The One Remaining Virginia Veteran

Press release from the City of Norfolk:

May 27, 2020

There are 1,307 Virginian Vietnam veterans listed on The Vietnam Veterans Memorial best known as “The Wall”. In the fall of 2015, WHRO Public Media launched the ‘Wall of Faces’ project with 500 veterans still needing a photo. Today, only one photo is missing: Sergeant Walter Williams, Jr. of Portsmouth is the remaining name on “The Wall” without a photo. We are asking the public to help find the photo of Sergeant Williams.

“As we’ve worked with individuals and community partners to locate photos for this project, we’ve learned the incredible stories of some of the veterans who served, “said Bert Schmidt, President and CEO of WHRO Public Media. “We would love nothing more than to report all have been found.”

WHRO Public Media has honored veterans through several initiatives, with the longest-running project being the Wall of Faces.

To help find photos of the last Virginia veteran, visit WHRO’s Virginia Stories from The Wall.

This press release was produced by the City of Norfolk. The views expressed here are the author’s own.