KXAN News: Dog Tags to Honor Texas Vietnam War Heroes

“When I’m looking through the list,” said Hart, “I’m just amazed because there are so many privates, which means that they were pretty young in age.

“To see so many — 18, 18, 18, maybe 19 — and then you start, every once in a while, to see a 20- or 21-year-old. But most of them are under 20. And this is just Texas. You see sheets and sheets, just line after line of nothing but 19- and 20-year-olds — kids.”

Don’t miss Austin KXAN’s Jim Swift’s great story about the Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument 3415 Project!

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