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When the grainy, black and white photo from a 1966 obituary popped up on her computer screen, 51ÁÔÆæ junior Amanda Porter reached out and touched it. \u201cWell, there you are at last, Nathaniel Merriweather.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Amanda<\/a>
Amanda Porter found a photo of Sgt. Nathaniel Merriweather, 23, in Stanton, Tennessee, after much research and several phone calls. (51ÁÔÆæ Photo\/Kathy Quirk.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Porter was one of 27 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee journalism students who helped locate photos and tell the stories of Wisconsin soldiers killed in Vietnam as part of a national effort to find approximately 18,000 missing photos for a digital display at The Wall in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

The project was completed last weekend when relatives confirmed that an old North Division High School yearbook photo showed Willie Bedford, the final image missing of the 1,161 Wisconsin service members who died in Vietnam. With that confirmation, Wisconsin became the sixth state, and largest so far, to collect photos of all its service members killed in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

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Play Video<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>
Finding Private Bedford: The last Wisconsin Vietnam photo<\/div><\/div>\n

Organizers hope the digital Wall of Faces planned for the new Vietnam veterans Education Center will eventually include images for all 58,300 men and women listed on The Wall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wisconsin effort has been by far the most efficient and the most successful,\u201d said George DeCastro, coordinator of the Faces Never Forgotten Program. \u201cThe high level of coordination and cooperation between all parties involved was astounding. And, of course, your students and all of the other volunteers are the ones who actually got it done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andrew Johnson, publisher of the Dodge County Pionier in Mayville,spearheaded Faces Never Forgotten in Wisconsin. Jessica McBride, senior journalism lecturer at 51ÁÔÆæ, got her JAMS 320: Integrated Reporting classes involved after meeting Johnson in February 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2018Stories that matter\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was an excellent way to teach basic research and storytelling skills, as well as the role the media can play in communities,\u201d says McBride. \u201cI want students to work on stories that matter. It\u2019s moving how they have embraced this cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPhotos are so important in making a person \u2018real,\u2019\u201d Johnson explains, adding that there are few photos of many of the soldiers who fought in the unpopular Vietnam War. Further compounding the problem is the 1973 fire at the National Personnel Records center that destroyed approximately 16-18 million official military personnel files.Johnson had two very personal reasons for getting involved. The Education Center at The Wall also will project photos of the nearly 8,000 service members killed in action since Sept. 11. One of those soldiers is U.S. Army 1st Lt. David Johnson, who was killed in Afghanistan in January 2012. Andrew Johnson says Vietnam veterans, like those in the Patriot Guard, have been supportive of his family as they mourned David\u2019s death. Patriot Guard members helped lead his son\u2019s funeral procession and accompanied Lt. Johnson\u2019s casket up until his burial at Arlington National Cemetery.<\/p>\n

When Johnson started the Wisconsin project a year ago, 400 Wisconsin soldiers killed in Vietnam had no photos on file. By the time 51ÁÔÆæ student journalists got involved in winter 2015, the list was down to 63. Each student took two, and McBride took the remaining seven.<\/p>\n

Finding photos and information about soldiers dead for 45 years or more proved challenging, so students pored over cemetery records, checked phone directories and yearbooks, looked through veteran memorial sites and tracked down surviving family and friends any way they could \u2013 email, telephone, the U.S. Postal Service.<\/p>\n

Mourning sons, remembering friends<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"David<\/a>
Andrew and Laura Johnson share the story of their son, 1st Lt. David Johnson (seen on screen), whose death in Afghanistan inspired their leadership of Wisconsin\u2019s Faces Never Forgotten efforts. (51ÁÔÆæ Photo\/Kenny Yoo.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The research trail was often long and difficult. Senior Justin Skubal\u2019s soldier, Thomas Shaw, had left a widow, but she and Shaw\u2019s mother had both remarried and tracking stepsiblings was challenging. Fellow senior Jonathan Powell agreed: \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to dig up information when people remarry, and sometimes families seem to fall apart after a death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some family members barely remembered a long-dead relative. For others, the pain was still fresh. McBride located soldier Michael Bohrman\u2019s 95-year-old father in Delafield. He still hasn\u2019t opened the box of his son\u2019s belongings sent home from Vietnam, but he kept Michael\u2019s candy-apple red Corvette. The 20-year-old was killed three days before he was scheduled to end his tour.<\/p>\n

After locating a photo of her first soldier, George Anthony Chapman, 19, in a John Marshall High School yearbook, Porter began looking for 23-year-old Sgt. Nathaniel Merriweather, killed in 1966. With hundreds of people with that last name in Milwaukee, she didn\u2019t have much luck until she began searching cemetery records. She found his grave in Stanton, a small town in Tennessee. Cemetery and funeral records didn\u2019t go back to 1966, but she talked to Stanton Mayor Allan Sterbinsky \u2013 a Racine native happy to reconnect with his home state.<\/p>\n

With Sterbinsky\u2019s help, Porter made contact with Larry Knapp, an army buddy of Merriweather\u2019s, now living in suburban Chicago, and Jim Ackerman in Stanton, who sent her a copy of Merriweather\u2019s obituary from the Brownsville States-Graphic.<\/p>\n

Both wrote her encouraging emails, and were thrilled that Merriweather and others were getting long overdue recognition and honor. Knapp and Merriweather had been close friends, and Knapp had posted about him on a veteran\u2019s memorial site: \u201cLuco and I cried when we read that you had been killed in this battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project gave the students new insights into the sacrifices these and other soldiers had made. Skubal says he understands better why his stepfather, a Vietnam veteran, awoke some mornings startled and shaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was way more than a class assignment,\u201d says Powell. Echoing Johnson, he adds, \u201cA soldier never dies unless he\u2019s forgotten.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started this project, I thought about these Vietnam soldiers as old men, but they were my age, or my brother\u2019s age,\u201d says Porter. Touching that obituary photo of Nathaniel Merriweather on her computer screen, she says: \u201cIt gave me a warm feeling, but really sad. I\u2019m grateful that they are going to be remembered and I was part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Faces Never Forgotten<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"Carol<\/a>
Carol Rollins sent Jordyn Noennig several photos of her brother, Pfc. James \u201cJim\u201d Lenz, including this one from his last furlough at home. Lenz\u00a0 joined the Army at age 17 and volunteered for duty in Vietnam on his 18th birthday.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Quesada\"<\/a>
Tyler Nelson tracked down a photo of Pfc. Jesus Quesada, who died in Quang Tri Province in 1969 at the age of 23. A letter Nelson received said Quesada was one of 16 children and was proud to serve his country.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Merriweather\"<\/a>
\u201cLuco and I cried when we read that you had been killed in this battle,\u201d Larry Knapp wrote of his Army buddy, Sgt. Nathaniel Merriweather. With the help of a mayor, burial records and journalists, Amanda Porter obtained Merriweather’s obituary photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"McGrew\"<\/a>
Sarah DeGeorge received this photo of Maj. Lloyd McGrew from his son.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Salamone\"<\/a>
Gabrielle Barriere found a photo of James Salamone.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Uthemann\"<\/a>
Photo of Staff Sgt. Robert Uthemann from student Bo Bayerl.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"Radonski\"<\/a>
Amber Bak located a number of candid photos of Pfc. Kenneth Radonski.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Martin\"<\/a>
Daniel Zielinski obtained this photo of Cpl. Terry L. Martin, who died in Tay Ninh four days after his 19th birthday.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Greinke\"<\/a>
Shannon Kirsch located a photo of 1st Lt. Neil Greinke.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\n
\"Schurrer\"<\/a>
Cpl. John Schurrer\u2019s sister sent this photo of her brother to Jessica McBride after she read about Faces Never Forgotten in a column posted at OnMilwaukee.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Wisch\"<\/a>
Mary Jo Contino received an envelope full of pictures of Robert Wisch from his sister, who has cancer. She contributed all remaining photos of her brother to the project for safekeeping.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Chapman\"<\/a>
Amanda Porter found George Chapman\u2019s photo in a John Marshall High School yearbook. She also contacted his brother, who was much younger than George and has few memories of him.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
\"Hondel\"<\/a>
Zach Mathe was the first in his class to locate a photo of a Wisconsin Vietnam casualty, 2nd Lt. William Hondel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Voltner2\"<\/a>
Maggie Wuesthoff was able to locate several photos of Pfc. Donald Voltner, the soldier on the far left.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
\n
\"Hackett\"<\/a>
A brother of Lance Cpl. James F. Hackett Jr. provided this photo to Mary Jo Contino.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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