Vietnam: the county's fifty-four, allocated by city — and the townships inside the cities' names

1964 – 1973

The county roll, reconciled: the Virtual Wall's home-of-record lists give St. Joseph County's Vietnam dead at 54, and the count reconciles city by city, as the Mishawaka pass verified three ways: 31 South Bend, 16 Mishawaka, 6 Walkerton, 1 Osceola. No name carries a Granger home of record. Home of record, for the townships' sons in 1965–73, was the address a young man gave at enlistment — and a Harris Township farm boy's address ran to a rural route of Mishawaka or South Bend, so that this ground's Vietnam dead, where they exist, are counted in this roll under the cities' names, exactly as its First World War dead are. The county's one unaccounted-for of the war — Major John Russell Hills, lost over Laos 14 February 1966, at Active Pursuit status in the DPAA's Indiana report of 11 February 2022 — is South Bend's, and is printed as the county frame and no more.

The index check: the county veterans index's Vietnam rows — 271 of them county-wide — attribute none to Granger, against burials that run heavily to the cities' cemeteries. The townships' Vietnam generation served, as their fathers had, out of the farmhouses and the new subdivisions both; the record reached names none of them as this ground's. The settling sources are the same standing pair: the Service Notes index, which runs to 1979 and covers the Vietnam years, and the obituary record of the county's papers, from which a township attribution can be built name by name.

Sources:

1. The Virtual Wall — Indiana home-of-record lists, as counted in the Mishawaka pass (54 = 31 / 16 / 6 / 1).
2. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency — Vietnam (PMSEA) Report for Indiana, edition of 11 February 2022 (Hills).
3. The St. Joseph County veterans index — the Vietnam rows swept for a Granger attribution.