Vietnam veterans and Gainesville High School alumni honored their fallen comrades and classmates Tuesday at Forest Meadows Cemetery.
The cemetery keeps 11 Alachua County residents who died in Vietnam. In other cemeteries lie 37 more soldiers from the county who died in that war—their graves spotlighted by American flags for Veterans Day.
The GHS alumni first gathered to remember Marcus Jones. He died in 1967, and George Dekle said he was the first casualty that many of them knew…