Vietnam still brings tears

Vietnam still brings tears

(EXCERPT) 11-7-03, by Jim Schlosser Staff Writer News & Record

Time doesn't always serve as the great healer.

That was obvious Thursday following the dedication of the new Wall of
Honor at War Memorial Auditorium in the Coliseum complex. The wall
replaces the Book of Honor and adds to the 541 Guilford County men and
women killed in World War II and Korea the names of 77 men who died in
Vietnam.

Mary Lou Nance, after spotting Benjamin Gaines Lang's name on the
Vietnam plaque, couldn't reply when a bystander asked if he had been
her brother.

Choking with tears, she tried to answer by holding up her hand and
wiggling her fingers to emphasize a ring. An elderly woman standing
nearby, Lucy Sligh -- teary eyed, too, after seeing her son's name --
realized the relationship.

"It's her hu...

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