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    Photos Sought to Complete Wall of Faces

    May 03, 2022 5 minutes
    By Zita Ballinger Fletcher

    For 11 years, Janna Hoehn has been on a Vietnam War mission. The resident of Maui Island, Hawaii, volunteered to help track down photographs of service members listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, “the Wall,” so future generations can see not just the names etched into the black granite memorial but also the faces of the fallen. The pictures will be displayed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s “Wall of Faces,” a webpage where family members and veterans can reminisce about the more than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice.

    Today the Wall of Faces is missing photos for only 18 men. Hoehn is determined to put faces with those names and is appealing to the public for help. “It’s important for everyone to get

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