May 9, 2017
Do you have a photo of the serviceman or woman listed here, or know someone who does? This newspaper is joining a statewide effort to find missing photos of more than 500 Illinois servicemen and women who had either died in action or went missing in action during the Vietnam War. If you find a photo of a missing serviceman or woman, please contact the newspaper using the contact information below. The Wall of Faces, coordinated by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, is available to view online at http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/
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Your help is needed in locating photos of Illinois veterans
When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. was finished in 1983, the wall listed approximately 58,000 servicemen and women who had either died in action or went missing in action during the Vietnam War. Because of a fire at a government storage facility in 1973, the U.S. military lost millions of personnel records, including many of those who were listed on the wall. Although the military and other organizations made efforts to recover lost data, 24,000 veterans listed on the wall had no photo in their military records in 2013.