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Article: Remembering Vietnam; Veterans Memorial Committee remembers local soldiers at May 28 ceremony.
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- Monterey County Weekly
- Article date:
- May 26, 2005
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Poetry, commemoration, and a supportive wife help Dave Keith, 62, smile after seven surgeries, a broken back and three tours of duty in Vietnam, the war that took the life of his younger brother on Mother's Day at the age of 20.
Keith's handlebar moustache covers an honest face. He stares straight ahead at a hand-knitted throw decorated with an American flag that lies draped over a chair in his Salinas home.
"Everyone went [to Vietnam] for liberty and willingly died for it," he says, leaning forward in his easy chair.
Like Keith, 78 Monterey County families lost sons, brothers and spouses who served in Vietnam. "I refuse to let these men be forgotten," Keith says.
In 1990, Keith and his ...