Vietnam Veteran Dropping Sunflower Seeds?

A vet seeks to make 58,183 U.S. casualties more than a number 
The Register-Guard
By Jack Heffernan
APRIL 27, 2015

Bruce Hindrichs, a Vietnam War veteran, holds a map of the route of the Seed Walk that he has organized as a memorial for the U.S. soldiers killed in Vietnam. He stands in front of the Lane County War Memorial in Skinner Butte Park in Eugene.
(Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard)

An 11-mile line of sunflower seeds will stretch from south Eugene to Coburg on Thursday.

The seeds — a total of 58,183, the number of U.S. military personnel who died in the Vietnam War — won’t be planted.

They’ll just be sprinkled near roadways, to be blown away by gusts from passing cars or eaten by birds and squirrels.

That’s just fine with Vietnam War veteran Bruce Hindrichs, the Eugene resident who came up with the novel way to commemorate the war.

Hindrichs, along with nine fellow veterans and two family members, plan to drop the seeds along 10 miles of the route on Wednesday.

The entire 11-mile route will begin at Spencers Crest Drive and Willamette Street in south Eugene, then snake north to cross the Ferry Street Bridge and travel along Coburg Road, all the way to the southern city limits of Coburg. The seeds will sit about 1 foot apart along the route.

Hindrichs is then inviting the public to join him to drop the final 5,300 or so seeds on Thursday, the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end with the U.S. evacuation from Saigon.
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