Vietnam veterans to salute fallen brethren at Lower Bucks Memorial

Surviving Vietnam veterans will honor fallen or missing comrades when the Lower Bucks County Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated at 11:30 a.m. on Sept. 26 at Veterans Park in Middletown Township.
Bucks County author Jim McComb, John Rumsey and Fran Drummond of Langhorne, George Delia of Bristol, and Ed Sabol of Falls will narrate the stories of some of the 95 Lower Bucks servicemen who never returned from Vietnam.
McComb served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam and authored “More Than Names On A Wall,” which remembers the 136 servicemen from Bucks County who died in or remain missing in action because of the war. Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, a veteran of the Iraq War, and current U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick will also participate in the individual tributes.
In addition to the individual stories, the event also will include remarks from Abbe Godwin, sculptor of the statue that serves as a focal point of the monument. It will culminate in a roll call of Vietnam veterans in attendance and those whose names are inscribed on the memorial, as well as the postwar casualties of Agent Orange.

Three years in the making, the memorial will include the names of 95 servicemen from Lower Bucks County. It honors sons of 18 local townships and boroughs.
The anticipated $250,000 cost of the memorial was funded by state and local grants, and through various fundraising efforts.
The PA Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation, a grass-roots organization that includes members of the team that brought the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall to the area, created the memorial. The Wall in Bucks County drew upwards of 25,000 people during its July run in 2017.

Donations to fund the Lower Bucks memorial can be made at lbcvvm.org.

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