Vietnam War Memorial, Oakland Hills Cemetery, Novi, MI, USA
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This memorial is located in the Oakland Hills Cemetery in Novi Michigan.
Waymark Code: WM8PT4
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2010
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This memorial is located is a war memorial section of the cemetery.
The memorial is a three sided black granite memorial.
Side one reads:
"Dedicated to those couragous men and women of the armed forces of the United states of America who served their country with honor and distinction in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. May their sacrifice in the face of unparalled adversity never be forgotten.
Side two reads:
"Three million men and women in the armed forces of the United States of America served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam war from August 5, 1964 to May 7, 1975. Fifty-Eight Thousand died. Three Hundred Thousand were wounded. More than two thousand are still missing.
Side Three reads:
"I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot, nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman "
Placed by:: Oakland Hills Cemetery
Date Placed: 09/20/1991
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