THE WALL OF FACES

Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. I am heartened you returned home after the passage of so many years though I wish it had been under very different circumstances. May you rest in eternal peace.

Dear LTJG Norman Roggow, Thank you for your service as a Pilot. Glad you were identified in 2007. Welcome home. Your 54th anniversary is in 2 days, sad. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. It is Agent Orange Awareness month. Time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage, guidance, and faithfulness, especially now. Rest in peace with the angels.

According to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) website at the below link/URL, the remains of former MIA Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Norman Lee Roggow, USN, were positively identified using modern forensic techniques on 17 September 2007:

https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000qQS3TEAW

As of the most current DPAA update (20 August 2021), the remains of 1,055 Americans from the Vietnam War have been identified:

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_acc_ALL_20210820.pdf

As of the date of this entry, DPAA lists 352 sailors amongst the 1,584 Americans still MIA (unaccounted for) in Southeast Asia (SEA) and contiguous waters from the Vietnam War:

https://www.dpaa.mil/portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_NAVY_20210820.pdf

https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/VietnamAccounting/pmsea_una_ALL_20210820.pdf

The DPAA has accounted for all Navy crewman on the E-1B Tracker with LTJG Roggow, i.e., LTJG Zissu, LTJG Wolfe, CPO Pineau and JO3 Guerra.

Former MIA Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Norman Lee Roggow, USN, has his name chiseled into one of the stone "Courts of the Missing" at the Honolulu Memorial (Vietnam War Section - Navy Court "B") in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (the "Punchbowl") on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii. See the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website at this link:

https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/roggow%3Dnorman

Information about the loss of an E-1B Tracer from Detachment 34, VAW-111 launched from the USS Oriskany on which former MIA Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Norman Lee Roggow, USN, was a crewman, in Southeast Asia (SEA) (over South Vietnam) on 8 October 1967 is available at this link/URL on the Vietnam Air Losses website:

https://www.vietnamairlosses.com/loss.php?id=1390