Saturday, May 24, 2014

Two Names on a Wall (4)

Once again this Memorial Day weekend, I am re-posting my original "Two Names on a Wall" in memory of two of my classmates and friends that we lost in Vietnam. Their names are Dorian Jan Houser and Michael
Vinassa.


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Dorian Jan Houser (1946-1967)
Michael G Vinassa (1946-1966)


As I have been doing on Memorial Day, I am re-posting an article I did originally in 2007 paying tribute to two of my high-school friends who were killed in Viet Nam.

http://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2012/05/two-names-on-wall-re-post-and-update2.html

Since both of my parents-in-law are interred at the same cemetery in Los Angeles (Holy Cross) where Dorian is buried, I had a chance to once again visit his grave during the past year.
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4 comments:

  1. Siarlys JenkinsMay 24, 2014 at 7:56 PM

    You meant "interred," right?

    A cemetery is not a Japanese relocation camp.

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  2. Gary FouseMay 25, 2014 at 9:26 AM

    Oops, corrected. Well, you know the old saying about the broken clock being right, twice a day.

    First time I ever used that one.

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  3. Siarlys JenkinsMay 25, 2014 at 10:16 AM

    Its not the first time, but never mind. Grammar and spelling aside, whatever one thinks of the policy that sent your classmates over there in the first place, all honor to those who faithfully served, and especially those who gave their lives.

    (Considering that Mao would have preferred alliance with us to alliance with Stalin, Chou En-Lai would have taken General Stilwell's orders, where Chiang Kai-Shek's generals would not, Ho Chi Minh would have preferred alliance with us to alliance with Stalin or the Chinese (any Chinese), and we all think there's something not quite right about the French... there is so much more the sacrifices of our front-line troops could have brought us with more discerning leadership.)

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  4. elwood p sugginsMay 27, 2014 at 7:57 AM

    Siarlys--see below.

    Siarlys Jenkins said...

    Yes, its the atmosphere, not the criminal.

    May 24, 2014 at 8:00 PM

    Siarlys Jenkins said...

    Straw man squared. I did not say the possibility that anti-Semitism contributed to the killing of Jewish people at a Jewish cite is horse manure.

    May 26, 2014 at 7:50 AM

    Surely you meant "it's" and "site" respectively, right?? "Its" is a possessive pronoun while "it's" is a contraction of either "it is" or "it has", which would have been the proper usage in this instance. The difference between "cite" and "site" is obvious.

    Need to be careful whose Gore you ox and to be sure that your own house is in order first, as it were.

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