Adding Faces To The Names On The Vietnam Wall

What if you could put a face to every name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?

The VVMF hopes you can.

The National Call for Photos is a project organized by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to match a headshot or portrait photograph to every service member listed on The Wall.

The pictures will be displayed in an exhibit at the future Education Center at The Wall, an underground visitors center to be built near the Vietnam Veterans and the Lincoln memorials. Every day, the center will celebrate the birthdays of service members who died during the Vietnam War by featuring their photos on a giant digital wall.

So far, 25,526 veterans have complete profiles with at least one photograph, according to George Pojani, a research associate at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. These profiles are currently featured on The Virtual Wall, an online database of the Memorial's veterans.

The database identifies four veterans as having Creve Coeur as the home of record.

• Rory Baum
• James Brennan
• Jay Clarkson
• James Klein

A home of record is where the person enlisted, not necessarily where they were born or lived last. All but James Klein still need photos for the project.