The IPA needs your help in promoting the Vietnam Veterans Wall of Faces to your communities. Just over 100 photos of servicemen and women killed in Vietnam are still missing from the Wall of Faces (http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/). Read more about newspapers' efforts to locate missing photos across the country here.
House ads are available to download and run with names of the missing servicemen and women from those counties. Please feel free to personalize these ads with your newspaper's logo or masthead. Ads will be updated periodically to reflect located photos. If your county's ad needs updated, please contact Kate Richardson at 217-241-1300 or krichardson@illinoispress.org.
The following counties are home to veterans without a photo on the Wall of Faces:
Cook
Kankakee
Lake
Madison
McDonough
Peoria
Pulaski
Rock Island
St. Clair
Tazewell
Whiteside
Will
Williamson
SaveAnother good way to promote the project to your communities is to write an article or editorial on your newspaper's effort. This updated editorial is available to all Illinois newspapers for publication. Please customize the editorial with your newspaper's name and publication information. Some Illinois newspapers' coverage of the project is linked below.
Vietnam veterans photo project completes Sangamon County search – The State Journal-Register, Springfield
Illinois Ancestors | Photos sought of veterans honored at Vietnam Wall – The News-Gazette, Champaign
Editorial: Help declare victory in quest to honor QC vets – The Dispatch - The Rock Island Argus