
Jay Wiginton
Lubbock, TX | Army, 1965 – ’66
Vietnam War veterans often say, “I left Vietnam, but Vietnam never left me.” At its height in the late 1960′s, some 500,000 Americans were deployed to Southeast Asia, thousands of them from Texas. The Lone Star State was second only to California in the number of its sons and daughters sent to Vietnam. When their nation called, Texans of every stripe left the small towns and big cities and farms and ranches to serve in every capacity in the difficult and bloody fight. Read some of their stories below.
Lubbock, TX | Army, 1965 – ’66
Fort Worth, TX | Marines, 1966 – ’67
Fritch, TX | Army, 1967
Sanford, TX | Navy, 1967 – ’69
Honey Grove, TX | Army, 1967 – ’68
Borger, TX | Marines, 1967
Greenville, TX | Army, 1967 – ’68
Gunter, TX | Army, 1967 – ’68
Wichita Falls, TX | Army, 1968 – ’69
Henderson, TX | Army, 1968 – ’69
Fritch, TX | Army, 1968
Fort Worth, TX | Marines, 1968
Duncanville, TX | Marines
Garland, TX | Army, 1969 – ’70
Paris, TX | Army, 1969 – ’72
Lubbock, TX | Army, 1969 – ’70
Borger, TX | Army, 1971
Lubbock, TX | Navy, 1972 – ’73
Lubbock, TX | Army, 1966 – ’68
Lubbock, TX | Army, 1966 – ’68