Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Live Veterans Listed Among War Dead
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Fourteen Americans can visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and find their names carved in black granite among those who died in the war. “It was kind of scary,” said Eugene J. Toni, who lost part of both legs in Vietnam. “It’s like seeing your name on a gravestone.” Toni’s name is there because a government clerk typed a wrong number into a computer. All 14 computer records have been corrected, but the names can never be erased from the polished granite.
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