Why aren't the names of these 74 sailors on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall?

Why aren't the names of these 74 sailors on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall?

Almost as soon as The Wall went up, families came to Washington to find their sailor’s name. They’d find Panel 23, a black granite slab of the Vietnam War Memorial — widely called The Wall — that held the names of Americans killed in the conflict in June 1969. And time after time, family after family, shipmate after shipmate, the names weren’t there. How could that be? When the USS Frank E. Evans sank in the South China Sea in June 1969, it was …