This is for CC's ... "They want to be found" file. I spent this last weekend 25-27 Oct 2003 in Bridgeport Washington as a volunteer for "The Moving Wall" Event. I wasn't paying much attention to the long hair biker guy who had come back to the info tent for help finding his classmate who he knew was on the Wall. He was looking for LeRoy Reukauf... and the spelling was a little rough. One of the volunteers came up with Lee Reukauf of Kansas City KS... and the guy wasn't goin' for it... "Lee Reukauf can't be from Kansas City because he graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle", he said loud enough to penetrate my computer induced coma... I'm not a little girl but I was squealing like one.... Lee Reukauf from Seattle ... No Way... I've got him in my database.... *********** A little background... I've involved with a project to "place faces to the names of the 1144 Washington State men whose names are on the Vietnam Wall". Been working on it for nearly a year and Bridgeport was my first physical show of the website. To find my pictures (I'm using yearbook pics) I look for obituaries... Now the problem, Seattle has 231 men who called it their "town of record"... 231 boys/men and 10 or so possible schools... So I've been trying to contact high school alumni for help... Sometime I get great help and sometimes I'm totally ignored... Last winter I got out my copy of the 1964 Lincoln High Yearbook and started looking through it for an unusual name... one that I could "Google". I was hoping for a genealogy minded computer geek... and I picked Lee Reukauf... I found his name ... on the Vietnam Memorial Wall... yep the guy from Kansas City Ks. Well, you all know that you can't use stuff that isn't documented and well... what was a nice Seattle boy doin' joining the Army out of Kansas City KS? But I knew that Lee Reukauf (Seattle) was the right guy... Knew it enough in my heart to scan the picture, copy the info, get the official data, and create a place for him in my Washington State database. I did not put him online as a Washington soldier. I just wrote a note to myself, "Is this the right guy???... find out!!!" *********** So back the the tent... the one at Bridgeport... 175 miles from my home, 250 miles from Seattle, and thousands of miles from Kansas City KS. Back to Glenn Maxwell looking for his Lincoln High School classmate of 1964. Yep, my heart was right... Glenn went out to do a rubbing of Lee's name and I began work to place Lee online with the Seattle gang... Still don't know what Lee was doin' in St. Louis... Maybe at some later date Glenn and I will work together to get Lee Reukauf's name on the Olympia Memorial Wall... and that's my "They want to be found" story. Good huntin' Everyone. Darilee bookstorelady@prodigy.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington