An emotional Gov. Charlie Baker joined the South Boston Vietnam Veterans for the forty first rededication of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial Sunday, one of many first such memorials established after the tip of the Vietnam Battle.
The monument, positioned at Medal of Honor park, holds the names of the 25 males from South Boston who died within the Vietnam Battle between its begin in 1955 and the autumn of Saigon in 1975.
The monument was initially devoted in September of 1981, greater than a 12 months earlier than the opening of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
November 1 will mark 67 years since then President Dwight Eisenhower despatched advisory teams into the nation in South East Asia with the purpose of coaching the Military of the Republic of Vietnam. The close to 20 12 months U.S. involvement value the lives of over 58,000 troops.
BOSTON, MA September 18: Veteran Edmund Powers of Boston salutes the flag as the consideration guards open the ceremony honoring the twenty-five fallen South Boston troopers on the forty first anniversary of dedication of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial, Sunday, September 18, 2022, in Boston, Mass. (Picture By Jim Michaud/ Boston Herald)BOSTON, MA September 18: South Boston Vietnam veteran Tom Irwin leaves a rose on the base of the monument for his comrades through the ceremony honoring the twenty-five fallen South Boston troopers on the forty first anniversary of dedication of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial, Sunday, September 18, 2022, in Boston, Mass. (Picture By Jim Michaud/ Boston Herald)BOSTON, MA September 18: Commander B.J.Farrell, who’s the primary girl commander of the USSConstitution, Governor Charlie Baker, Mayor Michelle Wu and Congressman Stephen Lynch, at the beginning of the ceremony honoring the twenty-five fallen South Boston troopers on the forty first anniversary of dedication of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial, Sunday, September 18, 2022, in Boston, Mass. (Picture By Jim Michaud/ Boston Herald)BOSTON, MA September 18:through the ceremony honoring the twenty-five fallen South Boston troopers on the forty first anniversary of dedication of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial, Sunday, September 18, 2022, in Boston, Mass. (Picture By Jim Michaud/ Boston Herald)
BOSTON, MA September 18: Commander B.J.Farrell, who’s the primary girl commander of the USSConstitution, speaks through the ceremony honoring the twenty-five fallen South Boston troopers on the forty first anniversary of dedication of the South Boston Vietnam Memorial, Sunday, September 18, 2022, in Boston, Mass. (Picture By Jim Michaud/ Boston Herald)
