Vietnam vet honors fallen, survivors with trip to memorial“War really opens the eyes,” he said. “You go into a killing mode. There are things you don’t want to have seen, but you always remember them.”
He said what saved him was meeting his wife, Shuree, whom he married in December 1968. Two months later, he was laying in the hospital at Hill Air Force Base with cancer caused by Agent Orange.
Even now, Kerr still feels the effects of the war on both his body and soul. He hopes, though, that this trip will help.
“I’ve always wanted to go to the wall and touch it,” he said. “Maybe I can heal myself.”
Vietnam veteran and Davis County resident Larry Kerr is currently raising money for his very first visit out to the Vietnam memorial in Washington, D.C., which he has never seen, and the Disabled Veterans Memorial currently under construction.
Since he and his wife are driving out there, he also recently explained to the Bountiful Rotary that he is offering to take with him items that others would like to leave at the Vietnam memorial for the soldiers whose names are on the wall.
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