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Vietnam Memorial Wall visits central Pennsylvania — read the local names inscribed on it

KULPMONT, Pa. (WHTM) — A traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall is in central Pennsylvania this weekend.

It’s a small-scale version of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. and is six feet tall and almost 300 feet end-to-end.

The Veterans’ Memorial Sports Complex in Kulpmont is hosting the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall through July 7. It’s in town as part of Kulpmont’s Sesquicentennial Celebration.

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A group of motorcyclists met in Union County before travelling to Kulpmont in Northumberland County to help set up the wall earlier this week.

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An opening ceremony was held Friday morning and the wall is on display each day through dusk.

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Hundreds of Midstate veterans are including on the wall. Some of those veterans include:

Adams County

  • Joseph W. Blickenstaff, Jr. (SP5/Army), Littlestown
  • Larry Thomas Brent (SP4/Army), Gettysburg
  • Charles Arthur Businda (WO/Army), Orrtanna
  • Raymond Ellis (LT/Navy), Gettysburg
  • Larry Leroy Hess (2LT/Army)
  • John Charles Holoka (CPL/Marines), Gettysburg
  • Robert Lester Kessel (LCPL/Marines), Gettysburg
  • John Russell Miller (PFC/Marines), Gettysburg
  • Ralph Burton Mitchell (SSG/Army), Gettysburg
  • John Franklin Riegel (PFC/Marines), Gettysburg
  • Gary Wesley (PFC/Army), Gettysburg
  • Gerard Jude Sanders (LCPL/Marines), Gettysburg
  • Richard Martin Sietz (ABH3/Navy) Gettysburg
  • Gerald Allison Snyder (TSGT/Air Force) Biglerville
  • Michael Clair Thomas (LCPL/Marines), Arendsville

Cumberland County

  • Robert Lee Adams Jr (2LT/Army), Carlisle
  • Drew James Barrett III (2LT/Marines), Carlisle
  • Harold Eugene Barrick (PFC/Army), Newville
  • Richard Klemm Boyd, Jr. (MAJ/Army), Carlisle
  • John Leroy Carey (LCPL/Marines), Carlisle
  • David Warrington Casey (SSG/Army, Carlisle)
  • John Stephen Chrin (WO/Army), New Cumberland
  • James Wallace Cramer (SGT/Army), Camp Hill
  • Jeffrey Jay David (LCPL/Marines), Camp Hill
  • Kenneth Lee Devor (SGT/Army), Walnut Bottom
  • Emmett L. Dressler (SSG/Army), Carlisle
  • Paul Early Fought, Jr. (PFC/Army), Mechanicsburg
  • John Bernard Gingery (SSG/Army), Carlisle
  • Ralph David Hale II (HM3/Navy), New Cumberland
  • Jerry Ray Langley (SP4/Army), Mechanicsburg
  • Carl Robert Leed (SSG/Marines), West Fairview
  • Dennis Ray Lehman (CPL/Army), Newville
  • Neal Wallace Lovsnes, Jr. (MAJ/Army), Carlisle
  • John Ernest Marpo (SP6/Army), Boiling Springs
  • Richard Scott McFarland (SGT/Army), Carlisle Barracks
  • Paul Vincent McHenry (LCPL/Marines), Camp Hill
  • Joseph John Meyer, Jr. (PFC/Marines), Mechanicsburg
  • Wayne Eugene Monismith (SP4/Army), Carlisle
  • William Henry Morris, Jr. (CPT/Army), Mechanicsburg
  • Myron McClelland Pfoutz (WO/Army), New Cumberland
  • Gary Lee Ream (LCPL/Marines), Carlisle
  • Erik Niles Rudziak (FN/Navy), Carlisle
  • Edward Jay Rykoskey (LCPL/Marines), Carlisle
  • Larry Gordon Sandnes (LCPL/Marines), New Cumberland
  • Thomas Sprinkle (SP4/Army) Mechanicsburg
  • Derwood D Steigleman Jr. (Sgt/Army), Carlisle
  • Richard Hause Sweger (SFC/Army) Lemoyne
  • Gregory Brian Whitmore (SGT/Army), Camp Hill
  • Wayne Leroy Yinger Jr. (CPL/Army), Mechanicsburg
  • Larry Eugene Glatfelter (SP4/Army), Mechanicsburg

Dauphin County

  • David Lee Alexander (CPT/Army), Harrisburg
  • Harry David Beech, Jr. (LCPL/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Irvin Lester Bower, Jr. (LCPL/Marines), Linglestown
  • Charles W. Bowersox, Jr. (LCPL/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Lester Elwood Bowman, Jr. (SP4/Army), Lykens
  • John Gordon Boyanowski (LTC/Army), Harrisburg
  • James Richard Carroll (WO/Army), Middletown
  • Ronald Roy Cassel (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Richard K Criswell III (CPL/Army), Hummelstown
  • Ralph Paul Dayhoff (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Richard Lee Diemler (SGT/Army), Hummelstown
  • Alexander Willi Duplessie (PFC/Army), Millersburg
  • Edward Lee Eby (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Harold Lee Eckert, Jr. (CWO/Army), Hershey
  • Richard Elwood Fink (CPL/Army), Harrisburg
  • Ronald Richard Gamble (CPL/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Reuben Louis Garnett Jr., (SP4/ Army), Steelton
  • Jay Franklin Geyer (SP4/Army), Harrisburg
  • J. Randall Gipe (LCPL/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Roy Arben Harbaugh, Jr. (SP4/Army), Dauphin
  • Charles Edward Hawk (LCPL/Marines), Steelton
  • John Frederick Holz (CWO/Army), Harrisburg
  • Stanley Louis Horwitz (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Lawrence Emanuel Houck II (1LT/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Jimmie Jack Jones Jr. (SP5/Army), Steelton
  • Michael Leon Jones (SP4/Army), Harrisburg
  • Ernst Philip Kiefel, Jr. (COL/Air Force), Harrisburg
  • Michael Luke Langerio (LCPL/Marines), Hershey
  • Charles Elbert Long (SP4/Army), Harrisburg
  • Eladio R. Marroquin Jr. (SP4/Army), Dauphin
  • Marlin E. McCahan (CPT/Army), Harrisburg
  • Watler Lee McCahan (LTC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Samuel Lee McDonald (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Damien John James Messino (HN/Navy), Hummelstown
  • Carl Michael Morris (PFC/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Jeffrey Lynn Morris (PVT/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Donald Leroy Murphy (SN/Navy), Steelton
  • Owen Francis Neumyer (SGT/Marines) Harrisburg
  • Jerry Warren Nye (PFC/Marines), Hummelstown
  • John Joseph Paluscio (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Jerry Potts (CPL/Marines), Harrisburg
  • Aaron Henry Reigle (SGT/Army), Hershey
  • Dennis Henry Rhen (HM3/Navy), Harrisburg
  • John Charles Schiffhauber (SP5/ Army), Harrisburg
  • Cleon Larry Schreffler (CPL/Army), Millersburg
  • Lewis William Sigel (PFC/Army) Lykens
  • Henry Edward Smith (SPL/Marines) Harrisburg
  • Wilbert Stovall (LCPL/Marines) Harrisburg
  • Terry Gordon Straub (SP4/Army) Lykens
  • Donald Richard Taylor (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Henry Ezra Teasley (PFC/Army), Harrisburg
  • Billy Albert Thompson (SFC/Army) Harrisburg
  • Larry Thomas Waltz (HN/Navy), Harrisburg
  • Harry Herr Wecker (MSGT/Air Force) Harrisburg
  • John O’Neil Welsh Jr. (PFC/Army) Harrisburg
  • Ronald Edward Young (SGT/ARmy), Harrisburg

Franklin County

  • Roger Alan Barnhart (LCPL/Marines), Chambersburg
  • Joseph Robert Beck, Jr. (SP5/Army), Greencastle
  • Robert Wayne Bowman (SP6/Army), Greencastle
  • Charles Eugene Brennan (LCPL/Marines), Waynesboro
  • Thomas Ray Cook, Jr. (PFC/Army), Greencastle
  • Dana Edward Diehl (PFC/Army) Shippensburg
  • Steven Orland Dile (SGT/Army), Chambersburg
  • Jay Thomas Diller (SGT/Army), Chambersburg
  • Harry Lee Eccard (SSG/Army), Waynesboro
  • Melvin Grayson Ehrhardt (SGT/Army), Chambersburg
  • Courtney Price Hollar, Jr. (MAJ/Army), Shippensburg
  • Kenneth Eugene Hornbaker (CPL/Army), Mercersburg
  • Randy Truman Kendle (PFC/Army), Greencastle
  • Gary Lee Lininger (PFC/Army), Shippensburg
  • Ronald Eugene Newell (SGT/Army), Shippensburg
  • Thomas Victor Pilson (SSG/Army), Waynesboro
  • Stephen Brian Pugh (PL/Marines) Waynesboro
  • Charles David Railing (PFC/Marines) Chambersburg
  • Fred Bryan Rosenberry (SGT/Army), Chambersburg
  • Ernest Leroy Rowe (SGT/Army), Waynesboro
  • Paul Richard Smith Jr., (CPL/Marines), Pen Mar
  • Pierre Leroy Sullivan (SP4/Army), Chambersburg
  • Donald Leroy Thomas (PFC/Marines) Shippensburg
  • Robert Richard White (SP4/Army) Chambersburg
  • Omar David Witmer Jr. (PFC/Marines), Greencastle

Fulton County

  • Denis Eugene Abbott (PFC/Army), McConnellsburg
  • Neil Scott Kendall (PFC/Marines), McConnellsburg
  • Robert Lee Morningstar (SSG/Marines), Warfordsburg
  • Richard Lewis Park (PFC/Army), Burnt Cabins

Juniata County

  • Walter L. Goshorn (PFC/Army), Mifflintown
  • Edwin Cloyd Hockenberry (PFC/Army), East Waterford
  • Raymond Weiand (Sgt/Army) Mifflintown
  • Ervin Howard Williamson (CPL/Army), Mifflin

Lancaster County

  • Daniel Lee Ault (CPL/Army), Mountville
  • Thomas Earl Bailey (CPL/Marines), Columbia
  • Charles Davison Ballou (LTC/Air Force), Lancaster
  • Lynn Blessing (PFC/Marines), Lancaster
  • John Robert Booth (PFC/Army), Bainbridge
  • Steven Hess Boyer (PFC/Army), Lancaster
  • Jay Q. Buckwalter III (PFC/Marines), Manheim
  • Jay Martin Byerly (SFC/Army), Conestoga
  • Percy Leroy Campbell (MAJ/Army), Lancaster
  • David Eugene Dewitt (SP4/Army), Lancaster
  • Frank Frederick Douglas (PFC/Army), Columbia
  • Richard Charles Engroff (PVT/Army), Columbia
  • Dennis Charles Eshleman (PFC/Army), Conestoga
  • John R. Evans (SGT/Army, Columbia
  • Earl Marvin Freeman, Jr., (MAJ/Air Force), Akron
  • Alvin Ralph Gibble (PFC/Army), Lancaster
  • Henry Gerald Gish (SSGT/Air Force) Lancaster
  • Ray Lynn Good (PFC/Army), Terre Hill
  • Barry Lee Graham (LCPL/Marines), Washington Boro
  • Ronald Howard Groff (SP4/Army), Christiana
  • Gerald Lloyd Habecker (CPL/Army), Rothsville
  • Larry Eugene Hart (LCPL/Marines), Quarryville
  • Charles Willis Heaps (CPL/Army), Mount Joy
  • Jay Donald Herr (CPL/Marines), Lancaster
  • James Edward Hunsicker (1LT/Army), Denver
  • Joseph Eugene Jackson (SGT/Marines), Lancaster
  • Thomas Edward Jennings (PFC/Marines), Lancaster
  • Randy Lee Johnston (LCPL/Marines), Reinholds
  • Dervin John Keisling (PFC/Army), Ephrata
  • John Henry Kirchner, Jr. (PFC/Army), Lancaster
  • Michael Edward Kiscaden (SSG/Army), Lancaster
  • Matin James Lacher (SSG/Marines), Lancaster
  • Galen George Ludwig (CPL/Army), New Holland
  • Oscar Clement Mayer III (WO/Army), Lititz
  • William Leroy McFarland (PFC/Army), Lancaster
  • Gerald Lee McKinney (PFC/Army), Marietta
  • Ronald Eugene Meckley (SP5/Army), Denver
  • Carl B Mellinger, Jr., (SGT/Marines), Lancaster
  • James dward Miller (LCPL/Marines), Lancaster
  • Robert Allen Mowery (SGT/Armey), Lancaster
  • Barry Lee Moyer (SP4/Army), Reinholds
  • George Nervin Myers (PFC/Marines), Lancaster
  • Calvin Eugene Notl (SP4/Army), Mount Joy
  • William Randall Robison (SP4/Army), Lancaster
  • Chester Earl Rowe Jr. (CPL/Marines), Lancaster
  • Martin G. Sauble, Jr. (PVT/Army), Manheim
  • Frederick Jay Schwanger (CPL/Marines), Elizabethtown
  • Leslie Fred Shenk (SP4/Army), Holtwood
  • Timothy Allen Shober (PFC/Army), Ephrata
  • John Stoudt Shoemaker (CPL/Marines), Mount Joy
  • William Harry Shultz (LCPL/Marines), Columbia
  • Richard Stanley Simmons (MSG/Army) Ephrata
  • Dennis Milton Sollenberger (FN/Navy) Lancaster
  • Herbert Stauffer (SP4/Army) Terre Hill
  • Raymond Bruce Thomas (CPL/Army), Columbia
  • James Howard Unruh (SGT/Amy), Stevens
  • Carl William Walls (SP4/Army), Lancaster
  • George Robert Weaver Jr. (EN2/Navy), Lancaster
  • Jay Dennis Webster Jr. (CPL/Army) Lititz
  • James Lawrence Wieler (SGT/Army), Millersville
  • Melvin Ralph Wink (SGT/Army), Lititz
  • Richard Lavern Wissler Jr. (QM2/Navy) Willow Street
  • Kenneth Eugene Witmer (WO/Army), Millersville
  • Lawrence Goric Ziegler (GSGT/Marines), Lancaster
  • Harold Jacob Zook (LTC/Air Force) New Holland

Lebanon County

  • Earl Irvin Althouse (PFC/Army), Myerstown
  • Harold Edward Basehore Jr., (1LT/Army), Cornwall
  • Jay Karl Books (CPL/Marines), Cleona
  • James Irvin Boyer (PFC/Army), Lebanon
  • Daniel James Coonon (CPT/Marines), Lebanon
  • Franklin Matthew Corl, Jr. (SP4/Army), Lebanon
  • Solomon William De Hart (PFC/Army), Lebanon
  • Gary Frank Dissinger (CPL/Marines), Lebanon
  • Curtis Russell Frantz (SSG/Army), Palmyra
  • Gary Wayne Friedmann (SN/Navy), Lebanon
  • Ronald Lee Hill (SP4/Army), Palmyra
  • Franklin Daniel Hite (SP4/Army), Palmyra
  • Linwood Wilburg Kohr (PFC/Army), Fredericksburg
  • Michael Bomberger Koons (SP4/Army), Fredericksburg
  • Robert Wilson Krall (LCPL/Marines), Annville
  • John Joseph Matarazzi Jr. (CPL/Army), Lebanon
  • Joseph Anthony Miller Jr. (RM3/Navy), Lebanon
  • Richard Samuel Mohn (CPL/Marines), Lebanon
  • Peter Charles Moore (PVT/Army), Lebanon
  • Harold Curtis Nye (PFC/Marines), Lebanon
  • Thomas Alan Reich (1LT/Marines), Cleona
  • Robert Ammon Snavely (PFC/Army), Lebanon
  • Joseph R Wenzler (SP4/Army)

Mifflin County

  • James Malcom Bagshaw (SP5/Army), Belleville
  • Harold Elmer Burkett (HM3/Navy), Lewistown
  • Guy Wesley Clinger, Jr. (SP4/Army), Lewistown
  • John Howard Guthridge (CPT/Army), Lewistown
  • William Clayton Hackett (SSG/Marines), Lewistown
  • Dennis Guy Harmon (PFC/Army), Belleville
  • Joseph Lester Hockenberry (PSGT/Army), Yeagertown
  • Russell Edward Kephart (SGT/Army), Lewistown
  • Sidney George Kreisher (PFC/Marines), Lewistown
  • William Frank Rocco (SFC/Army), Lewistown
  • Robert Henry Royer (SP4/Army), Lewistown
  • Ronald Ray Walls (SSG/Army), Lewistown
  • Roger David Zeigler (CPL/Army), Yeagertown

Perry County

  • David Samuel Kline (SSG/Army), Landisburg
  • Claude Bruce Landis II (SGT/Army), Elliottsburg
  • Jack Ivan Maguire (1SG/Army), Marysville
  • William Bernard McGarvey (SP4/Army), Loysville
  • Clarence David Sheibley (PFC/Marines) Elliottsburg
  • Richard Michael Sprout (CMH3/Navy) Duncannon
  • James Albert Swartz Jr. (LCPL/Marines), Elliottsburg
  • Michael Dale Wright (SP4/Army), Duncannon

York County

  • Walter Leroy Alexander (2LT/Marines), York
  • John Stanley Almoney (CPL/Marines), York
  • Rodney Eugene (SP4/Army), York
  • John Harrison Anderson, Jr. (PFC/Army), Wellsville
  • Jeffrey Randolph Beardsley (PFC/Marines), York
  • Martin Edward Bixler (WO/Army), Glen Rock
  • Thomas Robert Bliss (CPL/Marines), York
  • Joseph Michael Bowman (SP4/Army), York
  • David Eugene Boyer (CPL/Marines), Hellam
  • Eckhard Gerhard Brenker (CPL/Army), York
  • Richard Eugene Brenneman (CPL/Marines), Dover
  • James Brent Brown (SP4/Army), York
  • Bernard John Burns, Jr. (SP4/Army), York
  • Frank Kenneth Bush (LCPL/Marines), York
  • William Grant Butler, Jr. (PFC/Marines), Peach Bottom
  • David John Combs (SP5/Army), York
  • Ronald Clarence Conley (PFC/Marines), Etters
  • Guy Bare Creep, Jr. (SSG/Army), York
  • James Joseph Criswell (PFC/Army), Red Lion
  • Gary Lee Crone (SSG/Army), York
  • John Wesley Dahr (SP4/Army), Dillsburg
  • James Alexander Daugherty (CPL/Marines), York
  • Richard Larry Davis (PFC/Army), Red Lion
  • Wendell Lewis Day (SGT/Marines), York
  • Robert Lee De Voe (PFC/Army), Fawn Grove
  • Terry Eugene Diffenderfer (PFC/Army), York
  • John Mitchell Dudley (PFC/Marines), Glen Rock
  • Barry Lee Eichelberger (PFC/Marines), Lewisberry
  • Duaine Karl Fisher (SP4/Army), York
  • Roger Lee Fraker (PFC/Marines), Hellam
  • William Austin Frey, (SP4/Army), York
  • James Michael Fuhrman (LCPL/Marines), York
  • Fred Samuel Fullerton, Jr. (PFC/Army), York
  • Robert Allen Gamber (SGT/Army), York
  • Donald Richard Gise (PFC/Army), Spring Grove
  • William Emory Heilman (CPL/Marines), York
  • Robert Curtis Herman (PFC/Army), York
  • Kenneth Leroy Holder (HM3/Navy), Mount Wolf
  • Paul Howard Jackson Jr. (CPL/Army), Manchester
  • Robert Nelson Jones (1LT/Army), Delta
  • Lester Stephen Kinard (SP4/Army), Seven Valleys
  • Michael Alan Lauchman (SP4/Army), Menges Mills
  • Lloyd Charles Laugerman (LCPL/Marines), Hanover
  • Paul Albert Lecrone (LCPL/Marines), Hanover
  • Lee Francis Linch (SP4/Army), Hanover
  • Jeffrey Harold Miller (CPL/Army), Hanover
  • Lonny Leroy Mizel (A2C/Air Force), Red Lion
  • George Leonard Mummert (PFC/Army), Hanover
  • Gary Preston Neiman (SP4/Army), York
  • Lester Milton Ness (CPL/Marines), York
  • Edwin Joseph Olmeda (PFC/Army), York
  • Calvin Charles Rice Jr. (SSG/Army), York
  • Jeffery Allen Richardson (PFC/Army), Red Lion
  • Dennis Leroy Riley (PFC/Marines), Hanover
  • Leroy Marshall ritz (PFC/Army), Delta
  • David B. Rodman (CPT/Army), Hanover
  • Thomas Eugene Sauble, (CPT/Army), York
  • Charles E. Smeltzer III (SGT/Army) York
  • Barry Lee Smith (SP4/Army), York
  • Harry Charles Smith (LCPL/Marines), York
  • Stanley E Spangler Jr. (CPL/Army), York
  • Dennis Allen Sprenkle (SGT/Army), York
  • Terry Lee Tayor (PFC/Marines), York
  • Tyrone Gary Thoman (SP4/Army) Seven Valleys
  • Charles Michael Thompson (SGT/Army) New Freedom
  • Richard Allen Wallick (SP4/Army), York
  • Edgar Wilken Weitkamp Jr. (WO/Army) York
  • William Lloyd Young Jr. (PFC/Marines), York
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