'In Memory Day' honors vets who live with war injuries
By Eric Connor
Greenville News
Published: June 14, 2013
GREENVILLE, SC — The names of nearly 60,000 Vietnam veterans who died in combat or were unaccounted for are etched on the memorial wall in Washington, D.C.
However, there are thousands more who have died as a result of their service in the war, even decades later, and those veterans will be honored today as part of the “In Memory Day” ceremony.
Among them is Theodore Williams Cantrell Jr., a U.S. Marine who at the time he served in Vietnam listed Greenville as his home, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
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