Scavenger Hunt: Saluting the Vietnam Veterans of Bravo
In the 1960s, teenager Dennis Lorden was the first guy in Milford, NH, to sport long hair -- even before The Beatles. Forty years ago today, he was killed in action in the Vietnam War.
The Nashua (NH) Telegraph paints a fascinating portrait of Lorden and how an amazing Vietnam veteran in Mississippi is tracking down the families of all the soldiers killed in his unit between 1968-1971.
Tom Combs, a platoon leader in Bravo Company in the 1st Battalion of the 11th Infantry, 1st Brigade, 5th Infantry Division, recently sent Lorden's family pictures of Dennis that they had never seen before.
Combs and his wife, Sue, now run the Veterans of Bravo web site and are trying to identify more men in dozens of other war photos.
The military can make you feel like a cog in the machine. But Sue and Tom Combs are fighting for the idea that casualties are more than numbers -- they are numbers with fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, sons and daughters.
Every soldier has a story, and the best way to honor their service is to remember.