Texas Capitol Vietnam Veterans Monument

No further away than a picture, a smile or remembered phrase…

I Joined the US Marine Corps Sept ’65…

I am sure every aviator remembers his first combat mission…

On September 13 ,Company D had undergone its baptism by fire…

Ontos A-11 ( NCOIC Cpl Smith and driver PFC Powell ) took the lead…

As is paramount in Naval Fighter Aviation, “there are no points for second place”.

Cpl. George Allen Alford, Jr. was born on March 7,1948, in Alvin, Texas…

Vietnam was just starting to raise it’s ugly head…

I often wonder how things might be now…

I landed in Plieku, South Vietnam on December 22, 1967…

Myron G. Peterson was a member of the 5th Infantry Regiment…

Luther “Buster” Newberry was a U.S. Marine Corporal assigned to MAG 12…

JD Hennig joined at 22 , leaving a wife and baby.

I arrived in Vietnam on or about February 26, 1969…

…I reported to D Trp, 1-4 Cav (Darkhorse) in the Republic of Vietnam…

Nickie Wayne Gage, a Vietnam veteran, has been a resident of Vernon, Texas for the past 27 years.

It was March 5th, 1966, eight days before my first birthday…

In February 1969, it was determined that additional security was needed to cover the 26 mile perimeter…

I was with the 38th Scout Dog plt. and served as a dog handler…

I served aboard the USS Whitfield County LST- 1169 at a place called Vung Tau…

In memory of Captain Loyd V. McCarthy, a Borger resident who died in the Vietnam War.

Gary Heeter of Fritch, Texas is a proud American. He served his country in Vietnam, carrying his gun and…

I joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1970. I went to Boot Camp in Beaufort, SC.

Though my husband passed on December 4,2010 due to Agent Orange complications

My name is Johnny Hubbs and I served in the US Army in the Vietnam War as a door gunner

Houston veteran Wayne Aurich remembers whispered radio calls that would make his hair stand on end.

First of all I joined the Navy in Oklahoma, not in Texas, although my parents lived in Fredericksburg…

My name is Mike Grijalva and I am a member of the VVA Post 844 El Paso,TX

Manny Moreno arrived in Vietnam as Airman First Class. He worked on loading…

Erwin Massengale’s tank might have been the only one in Vietnam wearing a set of longhorns on its bow

Sam Floca is a sixth-generation Texan, as proud of his Lone Star State heritage as he is of his two tours in Vietnam

I’m a graduate of Temple High School and Texas A&M and I served in Viet Nam in 1964 and 1966.

Richard Fuentes son of the late Mr & Mrs Guadalupe Fuentes enlisted in the United States Marine Corp in 1966.

On June 20, 1969 I reported to Armed Forces Examining and Entrance Station, 701 San Jacinto Street, Houston, Texas.

Two weeks prior to my nineteenth birthday, I was drafted. I was sent to Ft. Lewis Washington for my basic

“Some impressions I want to remember. Some I do not. But I have got them all, burned somewhere deep in my mind…”

MSG Keefe was the Senior S2 NCO (Sergeant) for the 2/12 Cavalry in the Que Son Valley. On 7 Jan 68

As the three young Texans rode over the South Vietnam treetops, they expected a minor engagement….

In 1967, Deer enlisted in the Army so that he could apply for flight school, and it wasn’t long before he was at the stick

They grew up together, doing all the things boys did in small Texas towns in the 1950’s…

San Antonio native Raul Herrera was slim as a beanpole when he joined the United States Navy….

Texan Joyce Rice Denke turned grief into action by joining the American Red Cross.

Stan Sellers of Bandera had a single mission in Vietnam: to save the lives of wounded U.S. Marines.

My brother Lt. Col. Kenneth Burkett served on an Army advisory team in Pleiku…

Ron and Don Dorsey of Port Neches, Texas didn’t have to go to Vietnam. Both were college students…

On his first day in the Army, Laredo, Texas native Juan Jose Gonzalez met a fellow new recruit…

Tomas Gonzales’ nickname was “El Gato” because he looked like a cat…

When President Ronald Reagan awarded Texan Roy Benavidez the nation’s highest honor…

Bob “Budgie” Romines was drafted into the Army when he was just nine hours…

Houston native Jimmy Johnson saved lives. As a Dustoff medic in Vietnam…

When Ramon Rodriguez of Beeville joined the United States Marine Corps…

U.S. Army Specialist Five Don Rose of Wichita Falls was a Huey helicopter crew chief…