TALLADEGA COUNTY — The Talladega County Hall of Heroes Committee is reaching out to the families of those who gave their lives for their country in Vietnam.

At a meeting last week, there was some discussion of the fact that nearly 30 residents of Talladega County are listed on the “Virtual Wall” available online, only four or five of them have pictures and biographical information in the Armstrong-Osborne Public Library in Talladega, home of the Hall of Heroes.

According to the Virtual Wall, those who died include Sgt. 1st Class Jack Marion Jones, Specialist 4th Class Melton Howard Presley and Capt. Barry Coley Tomlin of Childersburg; Specialist 4th Class Roy Dixon Stoffregan and Pfc. Charlie Lewis Walker of Munford; Pfc. Johnny Ray Compton, Specialist 4th Class Thomas Leslie Gordon, Staff Sgt. Roger Lee Oliver, Pfc. Andrew C. Evans, Pfc. Perry Owen Jacobs, Specialist 4th Class Robert Eugene Gardner and Master Sgt. Samuel Lee McAphee of Sylacauga; and Lance Cpl. Ernest McDonald Barber, Specialist 4th Class Jimmy Grant Freeman, Pfc. Leonard Hugh Holmes, Pfc. James Patrick Nailen, Pfc. Walter A. Thackerson Jr., 1st Lt. Hugh Bernard Brown III, Specialist 4th Class Charles Edward Heath, Specialist 4th Class Jack Moss Jr., Lance Cpl. William Shaw Jr., Staff Sgt. Carlos Franklin Todd, Sgt. 1st Class James Bush, Pfc. Earnest Paul Holmes Jr., Pfc. Eddie Lee Moton Jr., Master Gunnery Sgt. Lougthon Smith and Sgt.Willie Gene Wilson of Talladega.

If you are a friend or family member of any of these veterans, please submit a photograph and biography through the Talladega or Sylacauga public libraries. Photographs will be returned. If you have any questions, please contact Bobbye Trammel at 362-8576, Elaine Stratton at 205-763-2864 or Doug Hill at 362-3280, or contact librarian Brian Fielder at 362-4211 or Shirley Spears at 249-0961.

Pictures may also be emailed to Hill at ddhill32@bellsouth.net.