About out one-third of the 3,000 Illinois residents killed while fighting in the Vietnam War hailed from Cook County.
Ninety-six of those soldiers came from Bremen, Bloom, Rich and Thornton townships.
They will be honored, as will all local Vietnam veterans, when The Moving Wall stops in Hazel Crest May 5-9….Please click here to read Donna Vickroy’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.
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