BAY CITY, Mich. — A memorial in Bay City will honor three Michigan sailors who lost their lives during the Vietnam War.
MLive reports that Douglas Roy Meister, Timothy Lynn Miller and Harris Melvin Brown were among 74 sailors who died on the South China Sea when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was cut in half in a collision with the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne on June 3, 1969.
The USS Frank E. Evans Association is remembering each of the sailors who died in the incident with individual markers in the states where these men were from.
The names of the fallen aren't inscribed on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., because the incident took place outside the designated combat zone.
The memorial in Bay City will be unveiled at a ceremony Saturday.
Information from: The Bay City Times, http://www.mlive.com/bay-city
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