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Glenna Goodacre’s Vietnam Women’s Memorial, dedicated 11 November 1993.
Glenna Goodacre’s Vietnam Women’s Memorial, dedicated 11 November 1993. Photo: Karen Cutter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Annie Ruth Graham.

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ANNIE RUTH GRAHAM

Lieutenant Colonel · U.S. Army

November 7, 1916 – August 14, 1968

Service record

Annie Ruth Graham, of Efland, North Carolina, served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. She died on August 14, 1968, in South Vietnam, at age 51. Her name is inscribed on Panel 48W, Line 12 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 48W · Line 12

Position of Panel 48W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Lieutenant Colonel (LTC)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Born
November 7, 1916
Home of record
Efland, North Carolina (Orange County)

Casualty

Date of death
August 14, 1968
Age
51
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Stroke

Context · from the records

What was happening

31 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1968. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 48W, Line 12

Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for her yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.