The Nation - News from May 26, 1986
Dedication ceremonies were held for the University of Kansas Vietnam Memorial, which honors 55 alumni of the university in Lawrence who were killed or are missing in action in Vietnam. About 200 people attended the ceremony held a day before President Reagan was to lay the traditional Memorial Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. The Kansas monument is the first free-standing Vietnam memorial on a major college campus, said Tom Berger, chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee. In other holiday weekend activities, Vietnam veterans in Georgia descended on the fairgrounds at Comer for the annual “L. Z. Friendly” camp-out and reunion.
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