State Senator Looking for Fallen Soldier's Faces

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Over 1,500 Georgians who were sent to Vietnam to battle communist forces in that country’s decades-long civil war never returned. Now, a Cobb County state senator wants to ensure their legacies live on for the next generation.

The effort to give a face to just under 750 missing or killed Georgia soldiers is part of a nationwide effort to collect photographs of all 58,300 people honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Sen. Judson Hill told the Marietta Daily Journal that adding a face to the name of a missing or fallen soldier brings his story to life and helps make the memory of the war more personalized.

Photos of missing or fallen troops will be used in a multimedia display coming to a new educational center at the famous memorial in the nation’s capital called the Wall of Faces, the MDJ says.

According to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the following Cobb County soldiers do not yet have photographs associated with them.

• Fred Buffington of Smyrna
• John Crisp of Marietta
• Danny W. Fann of Marietta
• Roy E. Fickling of Marietta
• John L. Gambrell of Powder Springs
• Willie E. Glover of Marietta
• Kirby L. Hamby of Marietta
• Ronald H. Howard of Smyrna
• Roger Hulsey of Powder Springs
• Paul E. Kelly, Jr. of Smyrna
• Robert H. McCollum of Marietta
• Roy M. McWilliams of Mableton
• Mitchell E. Norton of Marietta
• Timothy J. O’Keefe of Kennesaw
• Charles D. Smith of Marietta
• Howard W. Stewart of Kennesaw
• David E. Thomas of Mableton
• Robert W. Wood of Smyrna

Anyone with photographs of any of the men listed above can submit a scanned copy of the photo to the Wall of Faces at this link. Additionally, physical copies of photos of the above men can be mailed to the organization at:

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Attn: Call for Photos
2600 Virginia Ave., NW, Suite 104,
Washington, DC 20037