“Too many of our fellow Texans breathed their last in a muddy hole or a delta swamp or a tangled jungle in Vietnam. 3,417 Texans did not survive to come home from Vietnam. They are heroes by any definition of the word. They are the best of us. They are the best of Texas.” – Joe Galloway
The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument will stand as a permanent honor to all Texans who served in the Vietnam War – and it will also serve as a permanent memorial to the 3,417 Texans who never came home. This memorial will be made through The 3417 Project, which will individually honor each Texan who died in the Vietnam War.
Listing Of Texans Who Died In Vietnam
The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument 3417 Project created a set of two dog tags for every Texan who died in service to his country in Vietnam, each personalized and hand-embossed with the name, branch of service, rank, date of loss and hometown of the Texas hero. One tag is displayed in the Texas Vietnam Heroes Exhibit, and the other was dedicated for entombment in the Monument during the Groundbreaking Ceremony March 25, 2013.
As part of the 3417 Project, the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument held a public Reading of the Names on March 24, 2013 at the LBJ Presidential Library Lady Bird Auditorium in Austin.
Our Texas heroes’ 3417 memorial is being hand crafted by Texas Vietnam veterans, led by Don Dorsey, a United States Marine Corps Vietnam combat veteran and a member of the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument Committee. Click to order Hero Tags of your Texas Vietnam Hero.
I would like to read the name of my cousin at the March dedication:
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Oscar Gonzalez
512-565-4135
Mr. Gonzales – The Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument Committee will be in touch with you soon.
I would like to read some of the names on the 3415 prodject. It would be a lasting HONOR for me todo this for my Brothers and Comrades. You may reach me at 210-837-6193 3707 Charles Conrad Dr. Kirby Tx. 78219. I was with 3rd RECON Battalion, Delta Co. 1d2 recon Team Dallas Girl
Thank you for this Monument and the Honor tobethere when you break Ground on it.
Stan (doc) Sellers
Mr. Sellers – The Texas Vietnam Veterans Committee will be in touch with you soon.
I would be honored to read some of the names to be remembered at the groundbreaking of this memorial.
Scott V Smith, CPS, ITE
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If it’s not too late I would like to read some names also. I am a Vietnam veteran myself. My cousin died there and if noone has asked, I would like to read those who died from Falfurrias, Tx.
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I just read my brother’s name, Cpl. Melecio Ortiz, USMC, in the Reading of the Names Ceremony in The Wall, Washington, D.C. on Nov. 8, 2012. I read his name and those that were killed on May 13, 1967. I would love to participate in the Reading of the Names in Austin. My brother lost his life in Viet Nam on May 13, 1967. He was awarded the Silver Star for his heroic actions. Please consider my request.
I especially recall two classmates from Prairie View A.&M. University who were killed in Vietnam. The first was CPT Otha Lindsey Poole, who entered active duty the same day as myself on 7 July 1966 and were in the same Officers Basic Course at the Medical Field Service School, (MFSS), now known as the Academy of Health Sciences and he asked me to go and take the flight physical with him, but I wanted to go Airborne instead and took the Airborne physical. Otha became a Medevac Pilot and after I returned to the CONUS in January 1968, I learned that he had been killed and I attended his funeral at Sam Schwartz School in Hempstead. Otha was the only soldier from Waller County killed in Vietnam and there is no monument to his death in the town of Hempstead, Tx. My former roommate from Prairie View A.&M. University that perished in Vietnam was Clifford Nickleberry of Naples, Texas unfortunately did not get to know about the good turn he had done for a fellow student facilitated his success after college and for that, that PV graduate is forever grateful. Otha and Clifford, the good deeds that you have done for others has not gone unnoticed. I still have fond memories of you both and I’m motivated to keep the memory of you alive and be in service to other veterans that need help.