THE WALL OF FACES

Remembering you and those who didn't make it home from the Vietnam War. This year makes 50 years since America left Vietnam, but the time that you and those we lost have been gone seems so much longer.

With respect, always.

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago. That you died in the same crash with your fiancee is especially heart-breaking and poignant. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….

Thank you for your bravery and service in honor of our country.

We can tell Memorial Day is coming with the wreaths that hang on front doors, and the small red, white, and blue American flags that line the grass covered graves of the Veterans’ cemeteries all acrosse America. One of those graves is yours, and we honor your life and your memory on this Memorial day.

May we never forget your example and the true cost of our freedoms. You with those who love you paid that cost, and America will be forever indebted.

With respect, always.

SECOND LIEUTENANT ELIZABETH ANN JONES

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SECOND LIEUTENANT CAROL ANN DRAZBA

Second Lieutenant Elizabeth Ann Jones’ mother had recently mailed a wedding dress to her in Vietnam.

Jones, whom a neighbor told The Associated Press had a “ zest for life,” was planning to marry a man she had met after arriving months earlier to serve as an Army nurse.

But on 18 February 1966, Jones and her fiancé were both killed in a helicopter crash near Saigon.

Her colleague, Second Lieutenant Carol Ann Drazba, also perished.

The two women, both 22, were the first American female service members to lose their lives in the Vietnam War.

SEE FULL STORY HERE OF ALL 8 WOMEN LOST IN THE VIETNAM WAR -

== https://time.com/6051363/vietnam-war-women-memorial/ ==

REMEMBRANCE