Nearly 60 years ago, dozens of soldiers assembled for a top secret mission to Vietnam. They never made it. Their airplane disappeared between Guam and the Philippines.
The massive Rolling Thunder ride brought tens of thousands of riders to Washington, D.C. last year, but coronavirus and event complications will mean a very different tribute this weekend.
The National Park Service has reached agreement with a nonprofit veterans’ organization allowing it take cremated remains left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and bury them will full military honors.
Lawrence Reilly Sr. barely survived the 1969 collision that sent half of the USS Frank E. Evans to the bottom of the South China Sea with his namesake son and 73 other shipmates trapped inside. The father spent the last years of his life unsuccessfully trying to convince the Pentagon to add those 74 names to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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