Op-ed: Time to add ‘Lost 74’ to Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
By: Foster's Daily Democrat (New Hampshire)  
This photo from 2 June 1969 shows SH-3 helicopters from the aircraft carrier Kearsarge joining search and rescue operations over the stern section of the destroyer Frank E. Evans, as destroyer Everett F. Larson stands ready to offer assistance (at right). A Royal Australian Navy frigate is also present. Frank E. Evans was cut in two in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne during Southeast Asian Treaty Organization exercises in the South China Sea. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command)
It can happen and it should happen.
Last week, Seacoast Sunday shared the story of the “Lost 74,†a group of Navy personnel killed during the Vietnam War when their destroyer was accidentally sliced in half by an Australian aircraft carrier. Seventy-four men were killed in service to their country during a war.
Among those lost were 21-year-old Gary Joseph Vigue, a 1965 Dover High School graduate who left behind a wife and a 5-month-old son.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/10/06/op-ed-time-to-add-lost-74-to-vietnam-veterans-memorial-wall/
