Vietnam's rising toll includes Stratford man
Written by John Kovach
Saturday, 15 May 2010 12:07
The name of Dennis Leo Gazaille does not appear on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
He was 17 when he left with his fellow Marines, serving from 1966 to 1969.
Dennis Gazaille made it home.
It was stateside, in 2003, that cancer blamed on exposure to Agent Orange manifested itself.
It was here in December 2008 that complications of that cancer, coupled with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, took his life.
“He was the bravest man I knew,” Nancy Gazaille said of her late husband after she returned from Washington, D.C., where he was one of 97 former service personnel honored on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s In Memory Day.
The annual observance salutes those who made it home, but later died as a result of their service in Vietnam.
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Vietnam's rising toll includes Stratford man
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