Thirty years after Vietnam, county wants to honor its dead

Thirty years after Vietnam, county wants to honor its dead

(EXCERPT) By Jim Cresson The idea for a memorial honoring Sussex
County’s war dead from the Vietnam War is gaining big support from
local and state veterans.

State Vietnam Veterans Association President Bob Corsa, a retired New
York City police officer who was a Marine Corps squad leader in
Vietnam from 1969-70, first advanced the proposed memorial idea to
Sussex County Administrator Bob Stickels in May.

Stickels, who served as an Army military policeman in Vietnam from New
Year’s Day to Christmas Day 1968, quickly embraced the idea and began
forming a plan to raise money for a black granite podium-shaped
memorial and place it on county land at the corner of South Bedford
Street and The Circle. On the top of the podium would be inscribed the
names of Sussex County’s 22 servicemen who lost their lives in the
Vietnam War.

“I think it is a great idea and one that is long overdue,” said
Stickels. “Seven guys I went to high school with died over there.
That’s something I will never forget, and Sussex County should never
forget the sacrifice they made, either.”

Thirty years after the last American combatants left Vietnam, t...

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