The Vietnam roll: thirty-one names

1966 – 1971

The roll: for Vietnam, the home-of-record rolls exist whole. Under the official city of South Bend, Indiana, the Virtual Wall's Indiana roll carries thirty-one names — the city's dead of that war as the services recorded their homes: MSG James Earl Austin; Cpl Tadeusz Jan Borowski; SP4 Robert L. Conley; CWO Charles Forak Creamer III; PFC Ernest Elwood Freund Jr.; 2LT Michael Jennings Hall; Cpl Michael Leroy Harris; PFC Jonathon Jeffrey Hawkins; Capt Dewey William Heroy; SP4 Allen L. Higginbothan; Maj John Russell Hills; Capt Lee Charles Hitchcock; Sgt Lonnie Michael Holmes; Pvt Larry Floyd Jankowski; Sgt Robert Walter Jaronik; SSG Kenneth Eugene Kasa; SP5 Mark Steven Lennon; PFC Dennis Michael Mead; PO2 David Louis Merrill; PFC Russell Perry Miller; PFC Joseph Steven Nemeth; Pvt Paul Michael Roberts; SP4 John Rozow; LCpl Ronald Lee Runkel; SP4 William Julius Safrit; Cpl Robert Paul Sheely; SP4 Lawrence Sklodoski; SP4 Robert Harry Soden; Sgt Eveans Jerry Stults; SSG Tim Leroy Walters; SP4 Robin Ray Yeakley. The same names stand on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, each with its panel and line, carried in full by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's Wall of Faces.

A count conflict, printed: the Memorial Fund's city search returns thirty-two records under the name South Bend — one of them a man whose home of record was South Bend, Washington. The Indiana home-of-record roll's thirty-one governs this entry, and the discrepancy is printed rather than silently resolved: the two rolls count by different rules, and a reader checking the Fund's search will find the thirty-second record.

Sources:

1. The Virtual Wall, "Vietnam War casualties from Indiana" — the South Bend block read and counted in full (the state roll carries 1,544 names); ranks as the roll carries them.
2. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Wall of Faces — the South Bend, Indiana home-of-record records, including dates of casualty and panel/line for the names above; its city-name search count (32 records, one of South Bend, Washington) as noted in the entry.