Time To Honor The 74 From 69...Lest We Forget
Time to honor the 74 sailors who gave their lives for their country on June 3rd, 1969 after their ship, the Frank E Evans 774 collided during war maneuvers and sank in the China Sea.
Because you care and want to always right the wrongs that have been done by those who came before you...it is time to take action on this issue.
74 souls have failed to be recognized as combat veterans in the Vietnam War.
74 sailor's names have been left off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
74 families have suffered this travesty of justice for 44 years...some themselves have went on to Heaven having failed to get this taken care of during their lifetime.
74 brave men died serving their country onboard the Frank E Evans 774 destroyer in the South China Sea...yet are not counted as having died in wartime?
These men deserve the recognition their country owes them for their unselfish service.
Please please read what happened that warm June night during war maneuvers and the collision that followed.
Heroes died that night...yet they are refused entry into the institutions reserved for such men.
For God's sake and for momma's like Poofanny Box in Athens, Alabama (mother of Thomas Belue Box) who is in her 90's and has lost her sight already...right this wrong!
BEFORE she too goes to her grave grieving over the injustice of political correctness and the plain refusal of a Congress and a nation to recognize and honor her little boy's sacrifice in 1969.
Give her and all the others like her peace...by placing the names of those 74 on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
At least she may be able to rub her frail feeble fingers over the engraved name of her lost son and know he has been placed alongside the names of his comrades who like he, gave their all in a war that most have forgotten.
Lest we not forget.
Lest YOU not forget!
74 souls have failed to be recognized as combat veterans in the Vietnam War.
74 sailor's names have been left off the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
74 families have suffered this travesty of justice for 44 years...some themselves have went on to Heaven having failed to get this taken care of during their lifetime.
74 brave men died serving their country onboard the Frank E Evans 774 destroyer in the South China Sea...yet are not counted as having died in wartime?
These men deserve the recognition their country owes them for their unselfish service.
Please please read what happened that warm June night during war maneuvers and the collision that followed.
Heroes died that night...yet they are refused entry into the institutions reserved for such men.
For God's sake and for momma's like Poofanny Box in Athens, Alabama (mother of Thomas Belue Box) who is in her 90's and has lost her sight already...right this wrong!
BEFORE she too goes to her grave grieving over the injustice of political correctness and the plain refusal of a Congress and a nation to recognize and honor her little boy's sacrifice in 1969.
Give her and all the others like her peace...by placing the names of those 74 on the Vietnam Memorial Wall.
At least she may be able to rub her frail feeble fingers over the engraved name of her lost son and know he has been placed alongside the names of his comrades who like he, gave their all in a war that most have forgotten.
Lest we not forget.
Lest YOU not forget!
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