This beautifully designed and constructed memorial consists of three main elements;

• a wall, in the form of a sandbagged bunker, on which are listed the names of Rensselaer County's 45 sons who gave their lives in service to their country. Their epithaph reads;
  "We shall be remembered: As children we played, as men we fought, as brothers we will always be together."

• a ten foot tall, bronze statue of three American combat servicemen: their uniforms, equipment, and weapons, representing all branches of service, and covering the complete timespan of the Vietnam War.

• an anchor chain of forty links, taken from a U.S Navy destroyer that served in Vietnam: each link paid for by a $1,000 donation, given by a member of the "Forty Link Club", and dedicated to a particular person, place, or event in the war.

"The Vietnam experience; courage, compassion, and pain" is the theme of this beautifully sculpted, lifelike bronze statue by noted artist Eileen Barry.

Medal of Honor Recipient: Peter Guenette

Rensselaer County Casualty List

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A Few Related Internet Links

the National Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Wall

National Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Collection

Vietnam vets' memorials around the world

Top Ten Books of the Vietnam War

Vietnam Generation Jounal Online

15 Best Veitnam War Movies and its affects

Vietnam War Medal of Honor Citations

Vietnam War Essential Reading List

The American War Library

"Lost & Found" Vietnam Vet's Location Service

Vietnam-stories since the war

Rensselaer County's Korean War Veterans' Memorial

Troy, N.Y. The home of Uncle Sam

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