As Ramona Raterman left the black granite panel engraved with her brother’s name, she said it felt as though she left a part of her heart behind.
Just outside the Weber Points Event Center in Stockton, Raterman and her family moved through the grassy plaza, a a nearly 300-foot long mobile memorial set-up to memorialize the 58,000 people who were killed or missing in action in the Vietnam War.
Her brother, Gale W. Butcher, just one year older than her, had died serving as a helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War, she said…