US refuses to add sailors' names to Vietnam Memorial

MSgt Robert C Aldi
Please see Maj John Bell's response. Forrestal was in the combat zone.

SGT Darryl Dykes
Apples & oranges. Our country did not become involved in WWII until the attacks on Pearl Harbor.

MSgt Robert C Aldi - The South China Sea is bound by Viet Nam on the West and the Philippines on the East. Exactly where the Eastern boundaries of the Viet Nam Combat zone were, I do not know, but I am quite sure that it is far more distance than the range of Naval Guns. I checked my fathers flight logs and found one reference that referred to conducting carrier ops for a mission, where the launch station was approximately 70 NM from "feet dry". I would bet the farm that 70 NM was still in the "combat zone".

I seriously doubt that those destroyers steamed out of the combat zone if they had missions the next day.

I was a cannon cocker on a pbr hows that for combat

SSG Warren Swan on your comment about minorities not receiving MOH is a true statement, we see the US attempting to correcting this. I am too young to have served in VN. I do personally know a VN VET who is just now being reviewed for MOH his actions saved a platoon after receiving 2 GSW's a concussion he fought on till reinforcements arrived. He was awarded Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He has never said anything against the US Army even though he is a African American he says he is proud to be a VN Vet.