Belleville Historical Society honors forgotten fallen Vietnam veterans

In April, the Belleville Historical Society began working in Woodland Cemetery in Newark, looking for Vietnam War veterans who were killed in action. There are four buried there — two were in unmarked graves in very tough locations. The BHS fabricated stones for two of the young soldiers — Army Specialist Eason Maxey and Private Leroy Williams. The other two soldiers had stones that were sunken and needed cleaning, so the society reset and cleaned them and then fabricated a black granite marker with the names and photos of all four, which it hopes to install before the 4th of July, along with a flagpole which the cemetery doesn’t have. Photo by Michael Perrone

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