When Krysteen Wescott, a daughter of Sgt. 1st class Robert H Wescott Jr who died in Vietnam in April 1969, began working on a project to find out information and most especially pictures of the 58,000 plus men and women who are listed on the Vietnam Wall on the Mall in Washington, D.C., she knew she had an enormous and unattainable goal ahead of her.
The government has broken ground to build the educational center in DC, They do not have a picture of a soldier from Dublin, GEORGE WAYNE BAKER. Wescott hoped that someone in the county would have a picture since it would be awful for his page to be empty. "I have been traveling around the country collecting missing pictures and I would love to hear about him. I have been going around the country since Dec 1st and have obtained 605 photos. I was referred to Scott B. Thompson, by the Dublin Chamber of Commerce,"wrote Wescott.
The pictures will be posted on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund page for the Wall of Faces in the educational center currently being built in Washington DC. If you want to click on the hyperlink or just putwww.vvmf.org yourself and look at Building the Center and the Wall of Faces.
Within an hour, I referred the matter to Loree and Billy Beacham, active members of the Find a Grave project in Laurens County and Central Georgia. Find a Grave usually shows pictures of graves and statistics of death, birth and family relationships. The Beachams take the project with intense devotion and enter as much information as they can on the person buried in the grave.
Bingo!
As is the case in many instances, Billy and Loree went back to their voluminous notes and found two obituary notices for PFC Baker and his funeral program featuring the Wescott's elusive photograph, as well as a photograph of Baker's grave in Robinson's Chapel Cemetery in Laurens County.
Mission accomplished!
Well not completely. If you have any information, especially photographs of J.D. Miller and James Linder, Jr., please email it to me at dublinhistory@yahoo.com.
I think I can feel the Beacham's computer buzzing now.
Well done Billy and Loree!
And, thank you PFC George Wayne Baker for your service and the giving of your life for our freedoms.
http://dublinlaurenscountygeorgia.blogspot.com/2014/08/laurens-county-georgians-on-vietnam-wall.html
The pictures will be posted on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund page for the Wall of Faces in the educational center currently being built in Washington DC. If you want to click on the hyperlink or just putwww.vvmf.org yourself and look at Building the Center and the Wall of Faces.
Within an hour, I referred the matter to Loree and Billy Beacham, active members of the Find a Grave project in Laurens County and Central Georgia. Find a Grave usually shows pictures of graves and statistics of death, birth and family relationships. The Beachams take the project with intense devotion and enter as much information as they can on the person buried in the grave.
Bingo!
As is the case in many instances, Billy and Loree went back to their voluminous notes and found two obituary notices for PFC Baker and his funeral program featuring the Wescott's elusive photograph, as well as a photograph of Baker's grave in Robinson's Chapel Cemetery in Laurens County.
Mission accomplished!
Well not completely. If you have any information, especially photographs of J.D. Miller and James Linder, Jr., please email it to me at dublinhistory@yahoo.com.
I think I can feel the Beacham's computer buzzing now.
Well done Billy and Loree!
And, thank you PFC George Wayne Baker for your service and the giving of your life for our freedoms.
http://dublinlaurenscountygeorgia.blogspot.com/2014/08/laurens-county-georgians-on-vietnam-wall.html
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