Vietnam Wall

On Wednesday the Vietnam Traveling Wall, an 80% scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC, will arrive in Rensselaer. At 4:00 it will be escorted from the Fairgrounds to the Court House Square and then to Brookside Park. It should be a noisy affair, with many motorcycles. On Thursday morning it will be assembled and then will be open to the public from noon on the 24th until 3:00 on the 28th.

Names on the wall of soldiers and sailors from Indiana can be found here. There are four names listed from Rensselaer. Two of them, Allen Stath and Leonard Lane are buried in Weston Cemetery in Section P, which is the section closest to the pedestrian bridge. (If you click on the links, you will get details of their service and deaths.)  I suspect the Wall is seldom so close to graves of fallen soldiers listed on it.

Columbus Gross is buried in Fair Oaks Cemetery and Paul Hattabaugh is buried in Osborne Cemetery.

I have not found others buried in Jasper County but there may be some.

Update: Here are pictures of the names of Leonard Lane and Allen Stath from the Wall.

The Jasper County REMC had information about two other soldiers from Jasper County who died in Vietnam. James Taylor is buried in Remington Cemetery and Malcom Brouhard is buried in Wheatfield Cemetery.