By WAYNE FORD | The Athens Banner-Herald | Published: April 9, 2021 ATHENS, Ga. (Tribune News Service) For two years, a steady effort to find a photograph of a Georgia soldier killed in the Vietnam War failed to provide an image. But recently, a series of conversations between cousins and a former classmate ended the long search. Last week, Janna Hoehn of Hawaii told the Athens Banner-Herald she had received a photo of Fred L. Thomas, a U.S. Army private who died Aug. 15, 1966, on a battlefield in South Vietnam. Hoehn is a volunteer for the Wall of Faces, an online project that links a photo to every name engraved on the black granite wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.
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A survivor of Operation Babylift
Chris Colgan (center) with his adoptive parents Len and Carol Colgon.
Colgan has worked with Special Olympics participants for 18 years.
April 4, 1975, will forever be etched in my memory.
At a Tulane University convocation on April 23, 1975, President Gerald Ford declared that the war in Vietnam was “finished as far as America is concerned.” But getting those who had supported the U.S. involvement out of the country in those last days as the North Vietnamese Army surrounded Saigon was another matter and there was the issue of the orphans, some who had been fathered by American military men and who would certainly suffer even more following the U.S. exit.
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BLUEWATER BAY The day his ice cream truck wrecked on an Alabama highway rolling five times after running into a washout and hitting another car was, believe it or not, just the next-to-last straw for Ramon Pulliam.
The last straw came shortly after, when he and a friend thought they were close to getting jobs at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Alabama. Both were told, in fact, that they would be hired, except for one thing both were classified 1A by the Selective Service System, meaning they were available for military service.
Should they be drafted, Pulliam and his buddy were told, their jobs would have to be held open for three years, a gamble the plant wasn t willing to take. It was 1960, and U.S. involvement in Vietnam, under terms of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization agreement signed six years earlier, was ramping up.