Campaign aims to collect photos of every American who died in Vietnam

[douglas9]

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly on Tuesday handed a disk with 100 digital photos of New Yorkers killed in combat to organizers of an effort to round up pictures of every American who died in Vietnam.

"We owe it to those that died that we remember," said Kelly, who fought as a Marine in Vietnam.

"We owe it to them that we tell their stories of how and why they gave their lives."

Kelly's photos, along with pictures contributed by Mayor Bloomberg and Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano, will be displayed at an education center planned for the National Mall near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Groundbreaking on the $85 million privately funded center is scheduled for November 2012.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/12/2011-10-12_collect_photos_of_every_american_who_died_in_the_vietnam_war_honoring_our_heroes.html?r=news

[Historic NY]

1. Wouldn't the government still have photos....from

those photographer's who took the picture for the soldiers to send home when in basic training. There must be a list of official photos and negatives stored somewhere.