
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, February 15, 1991                   TAG: 9102150102
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

WAR MEMORIAL MAY HAVE 38 LIVING VETERANS' NAMES

The man responsible for deciding which names were carved on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial says there may be as many as 38 Army veterans mistakenly listed as dead.

Robert Doubek said he wasn't positive at the time that the men had been killed because their records were incomplete. But he included them anyway because he didn't know that it would be possible to add names once the memorial was built.

The Associated Press disclosed earlier this week that 14 Army veterans listed as dead on the wall are alive. After reading that story, Doubek volunteered that there may be another 24 errors.

The war memorial is a V-shaped wall which has 58,175 names of dead and missing carved in black granite. As records are updated, names are periodically added to the wall. But it's impossible to remove any.

by CNB