It is a somber day and a day to remember. On Memorial Day there are flags, a soldier plays taps, the saddest of bugle calls; and sometimes there is a reading of the names of the dead — men and women who have given their lives for their country.
But more often than not,http://www.agrolangeland.dk/phpinfo.php?landsholdstrojer-647/holland-674, there are no faces to go with names, no pictures of the young people who went off to war and never came back.
, a onetime Californian who now lives in Hawaii, wants to change that, at least with regard to the Vietnam War — and she needs help. She’s asking people in the Bay Area, and particularly in San Francisco, to find pictures of those who died in Vietnam. She wants the fallen service members to be remembered, and she wants Chronicle and SFGate readers to help.
Hoehn has been interested in the Vietnam War since she was in high school, in the years when the unpopular conflict was winding down. She thinks Vietnam veterans got a raw deal and is helping with a museum being planned near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., that would display pictures of those who died to go with the names on the memorial’s wall.
Her part of the project is to find photographs. So far, Hoehn said, she’s been featured in over 100 newspaper stories, and has found more than 1,300 photos of service members who lost their lives.
166 San Franciscans
According to government records, 166 San Francisco residents were killed in the war. They had families,http://electricvibesstore.com/wp-feed.php?football/equipes-nationales/suisse, wives, children and friends who lived in the city. Hoehn has photos of all but 57 of them — and these missing 57 are the ones she wants to find.
Hoehn believes that by finding pictures to go with the names on the wall, those from the city who lost their lives won’t be forgotten. Most of them were young — some only 19 or 20 years old. A few were older. The oldest was , who was born in 1916. He would have been a very old man now, but he was 49, still in the prime of life,http://www.rockpocketgames.com/fantversion.php?Arizona_Cardinals_Jerseys_Throwback, when he died in Vietnam in 1965.
Hoehn wonders what he looked like, who his family and friends were in San Francisco. She does not think he should be forgotten.
She is asking that friends, relatives or even old classmates who knew Sorensen or the other faceless San Franciscans who died to contact her.
“Any information helps,” she said. “Even if we find only what high school someone went to, it helps.”
Successful search
Hoehn and her helpers have had a great deal of success so far. She has found pictures of more than half the fallen service members who came from San Francisco. She has located more than 100 photos of Alameda County’s dead, more than 200 of the fallen who came from Santa Clara County and the photographs of all 59 from Sonoma County who died in Vietnam. She has the photos of all but 31 of the 111 fallen service members from San Mateo County.
“When I find these people and their pictures, the families are all very, very grateful that their loved ones are not lost and not forgotten,” she said.
But some cases are perplexing. For example, there is Sgt. 1st , who came from Marin County, served in the military and was killed at the age of 36 in 1969. Hoehn has never found a contact for him, though she does know he attended San Francisco’s in 1949 and 1950. But he did not graduate, so there is no yearbook picture of him,http://tsgs-net.de/wp-diff.php?wm-trikots-2014, only a name without a face from long ago.
Hoehn was in high school in the Riverside County town of Hemet when she became fascinated with the Vietnam War,http://cspain.dk/wp-feed.php?fodboldstovle_position/attack/.
“I had always hoped I could do something for the Vietnam veterans and the way they were treated when they returned,” she said. “It was disgraceful.”
On a trip to Washington with her husband in 2008, they visited the Vietnam memorial, with its list of 58,300 names carved on a black stone wall.
Started with one name
“I stood there and cried,” she said. She picked one name at random, of Michigan, who is missing in action. She made a rubbing of his name and tried to contact his family in the hope of finding out more about him and, perhaps,http://neopianroyalty.com/wp-pass.php?sport-business/les-10-agents-de-foot-les-plus-influents-au-monde-98410, a picture.
She searched for six months. Nothing. Finally,http://catamarcainfo.com/wp-title.php?otros-equipos-santos-c-275_272_36.html, she enlisted one of her cousins — “the family historian,” she calls her — in the search, and found Crossman’s college yearbook picture.
Months went by, and back in Maui, where she has lived for 25 years,http://www.producteursdemaregion.com/vars.php?borussia-dortmund/, Hoehn saw a report on local TV news — the was trying to find photographs of all people whose names are on the wall. The project is called Faces Never Forgotten, and she was hooked.
So far the project has located 41,000 photos. Hoehn started with her adopted hometown, and, using yearbooks,http://www.kombatkungfu.it/loader.asp?7131_Maglia_Pantaloncini_Kit_Away_Divisa_AC_Milan_Riccardo_Saponara_2014_15, newspaper files,http://dgrmarcomms.com/layout-styles.php?Dante_Fowler_Jersey, and a lot of hard work, found photographs of all 42 Maui County service members who had died in the war.
She now is working on California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Montana.
A total of 5,579 Californians died in Vietnam; 1,206 from the Bay Area. Hoehn is tireless; she has found thousands of photos, and wants more. She wants help, too. Anyone can join up — librarians, ordinary citizens, anybody. “I need boots on the ground to help me look,” she said.
Faces Never Forgotten hopes to break ground for a museum near the Vietnam memorial in two years,http://www.rockpocketgames.com/wp-title.php?product/129953.
The work, she said,http://www.argentinos.nl/phpinfo.php?vrouwen-voetbalshirts-c-576.html, “does your heart good.”
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