They Died in Viet Nam

[Gregory Matthews]

See:

https://www.adventistreview.org/all-the-names-written-there

 

At least 148 American Seventh-day Adventist military personnel lost their lives in the Vietnam War, though the actual total is probably higher. As several ex-servicemen have observed, a number of young Adventists probably didn't identify themselves with their denomination at registration—some because they had made choices about combat participation that the church didn’t recommend, others because they didn’t wish to get a visit from an Adventist military chaplain. Still others chose the broader category of “Protestant” when asked for church affiliation.

 

[Gregory Matthews]

No accurate count of Adventists who served in the Vietnam War is known to exist. Church records at the time refer to “thousands” having served. A note for 1967 suggests that some 450 Adventists were in the combat theater; a year later, near the height of the conflict’s intensity, the estimate reached 600. If Adventist participation was comparable to the general U.S. population participation, approximately 5,400 Adventists saw at least one tour of duty there. Anecdotal reports suggest the obvious: as American military involvement in the war dramatically expanded from 1967 to 1970, the number of Adventists known to military chaplains, National Service Organization personnel, and other Adventists grew rapidly.

 

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GREGORY 

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