Veterans’ Unlikely Stories

Tom Keating spent a tour in the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1969–1970, returned home, and said very little to others about his experiences over there
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. After the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans’ War Memorial in 1982 (called by Veterans “The Wall”) in Washington, D.C., Tom decided he had to visit and look up the inscribed name of his friend who had been killed in the war.