A piece of History

This past week Ogden has had the privilege to have a replica of the Vietnam war wall on display. I called my dad when I heard of this event asking him if he knew anybody who would be on the wall. Well he gave me a couple of names and then talked about this one guy who came back from the war and was into drugs and such and got into a shootout with the cops and well that dude died. Another one who he began to tell me about actually died of an drug overdose after the war. I am beginning to question my Father's friends.

He did give me two names and off I went in search of them one is Raymond Borrago and Bill Grimes. I began to look them up in the directory that they had and well they weren't listed in the book so I went to the information booth and the guy on the computer couldn't find them either. So to say the least these two mean were fortunate souls who supposedly made it back. Sorry dad, I don't know how these two fellows died. Perhaps a little more watching of C.S.I. could help solve this mystery.

There was a vet who was very excited to find his buddies on the wall. His expression was priceless and he kinda had a moment of silence for each of his friends he lost at battle. I felt bad for him as he had two pages of names.

I called aunt Betty and she said that the Wallace family was very fortunate as we had no family members lost in this war.

Here's some pictures of the replica.