Two Rivers, 30 Minutes for 5-28-2021
05-28-2021
Guests: Former White Oak Police Chief Joe Hoffman and the late Walt Yager (died 2018)
How Topic Discussed: McKeesport has one of the earliest known U.S. monuments to soldiers, sailors and marines who died in the Vietnam War.
In 1966, following the deaths in Vietnam of four former members of what was then known as the McKeesport Boys Club, club founder Samuel LaRosa decided that those serving in Vietnam needed to be remembered. He erected a tablet outside the club with the names of the four fallen.
Before the end of the war in 1975, the names of 23 young men from McKeesport would be displayed on LaRosa's tablet.
Walt Yager, a longtime member and volunteer at what is now known as the LaRosa Boys and Girls Club, says he believes it was the first Vietnam memorial erected in the United States. Yager and retired White Oak police Chief Joe Hoffman talk about why they think so many men from the Mon Valley served, and what the tribute symbolizes.
Originally aired: Nov. 6, 2015
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