THE WALL OF FACES

The “Friends of Rocky Versace” remember one of the 68 * men whose name is chiseled into stone beneath a Gold Star at the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Major Carl Louis Young, U.S. Army, on what would’ve been his 90th birthday – 4 August 2021.

* 68th name - for MIA 1LT Larry Lilly - added on 15 November 2018

During the COVID panic in spring 2020, the “Friends of Rocky Versace” conducted a "spontaneous, clandestine happening" on Memorial Day (25 May) at the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial to remember the 68 Alexandrians whose names are chiseled into stone beneath their individual Gold Star. MAJ Carl Louis Young's name was one of the 68 names read that day. Remembered also today on what would’ve been his 89th birthday – 4 August 2020.

Shown is an artist's rendering of Alexandria's Vietnam Veterans Memorial - the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial. MAJ Carl Louis Young is one of 67 men from Alexandria, Virginia who will be remembered on the Memorial.

The “Friends of Rocky Versace” remember one of the 67 men whose name is chiseled into stone beneath a Gold Star at the Captain Rocky Versace Plaza and Vietnam Veterans Memorial, MAJ Carl Louis Young, on what would’ve been his 86th birthday – 4 August 2017.

MAJ Carl L. Young was a pilot with the 68th Assault Helicopter Company, 145th Combat Aviation battalion. On December 24, 1966 he was serving in the Bien Hoa Province in South Vietnam when he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 35 years-old. [Taken from vhpa.org]