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Re: New Names on Wall

To: ALL

From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Date: June 17, 2002

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The names of three service members who died because of their Vietnam War
service will be inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Tuesday,
May 21, 2002 at 9 a.m (RAIN DATE: Wednesday, May 22 at 9 a.m.).

Expert stone workers from Denver, Colo.-based Great Panes Glassworks,
Inc. are flown to Washington, D.C. to perform the process of adding
names to the black granite panels and changing the status designations
of existing names from missing in action to killed in action. The highly
technical procedure requires meticulous work matching the stroke and
depth of the surrounding names to within one thousandth of an inch.

With the three new inscriptions, the Memorial displays the names of
58,229 men and women who were killed in Vietnam or remain missing in
action. James Cummings, AIA, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Architect of
Record, and James Lee of Great Panes will provide brief remarks about
the newest additions and the inscription process.

The newest additions to The Wall are:

*U.S. Army PFC William E. Johnson, Sr. (Cleveland, Ohio), Birth Date:
July 18, 1948, Incident Date: February 17, 1969, Date of Death:
September 1, 1998, Wall Location: Panel 27 West, Line 30

* U.S. Army SGT Richard E. Toney (Bogalusa, La.), Birth Date: October
28, 1946, Incident Date: February 22, 1968, Date of Death: August 31,
1970, Wall Location: Panel 40 East, Line 58

*U.S. Army PFC Paul P. Zylko (Passaic, N.J.), Birth Date: October 25,
1947, Incident Date: June 30, 1968; Date of Death: September 8, 1999,
Wall Location: Panel 54 West, Line 24"