US Refuses to Add Sailors' Names to Vietnam Memorial

[rangerrebew]

 US Refuses to Add Sailors' Names to Vietnam Memorial
 
Associated Press | 22 May 2017 | by Chris Carola

ALBANY, N.Y. — The Pentagon has refused a long-standing request to add the names of 74 U.S. sailors who died in a 1969 ship collision to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The USS Frank E. Evans was participating in a nighttime training exercise in the South China Sea when it turned into the path of an Australian aircraft carrier and was split in half. The World War II-era destroyer's stern section stayed afloat while the bow section sank.

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/22/us-refuses-add-sailors-names-vietnam-memorial.html

[Oceander]

What's the reason for the refusal?