Reading of names at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Channel: Stars and Stripes · 2012 · News & Politics

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He was the first American soldier killed in Vietnam; the first name of 58,282 listed on the granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. And with the reading of his name, Capt. Harry Griffith Cramer Jr. became the first to be honored Wednesday in what will be a 65-hour marathon session by 2,000 people reading all the names on the wall from now until Veterans Day. Read the full story: http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/vietnam-war-dead-honored-with-reading-of-names-at-memorial-1.196337.

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