Kentuckians lost: 1055
Average age: 23 yrs, 7 months : Youngest: 18 yrs, 1 month
Lexingtonians: 47
Lexington teens: 1 eighteen, 8 nineteen
Kentuckians killed on their birthday: 3
Source: National Archives Vietnam U.S. Military Dead
The memorial on the National Mall has a special ambiance
that is captured exquisitely in
"50,000 Names"
Sung by George Jones, but written by Jamie O'Hara,
whose own rendition is much more evocative.
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