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At long last, 2 Vietnam vets to get names on Gainesville memorial
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Two names will be added to the 26 on this monument at Rock Creek Veterans Park in Gainesville.
The names of two Hall County men are etched on the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., but, through nobody’s particular fault, not the memorial in Gainesville. That is about to change, however. A local Vietnam veterans group is planning to place the names of Marine Lance Cpl. Fred Buffington and Army Pvt.