Having spent some time in the U

Having spent some time in the U.S. Army and having been assigned to Vietnam I have always held a special reverence for the Vietnam Memorial and the Vietnam Wall.

In doing some research I could not locate a listing of Brevard county deaths in the Vietnam War. I had to manually extract the Brevard County deaths from the listing for the State of Florida. I was able to extract 56 names from the Florida list. Keep in mind that those listed for Brevard County are service members who indicated Brevard County as their place of residence at the time of enlistment. There may be other deaths from Brevard County but those service members may have listed a different location as their place of residence at the time of enlistment so this listing may not be entirely complete.

As I looked over the list one name stood out. I compared the list to the list of our graduating class and again one name stood out. Seth Hayden Matthews, III was a member of the Cocoa High School Class of 1965.