Remembering those who died in Vietnam and thanks for changing perceptions

BUFFALO — For more than 50 years, Dave Harness called his mother. He called her on December 7, when they last saw Tony, smiling for the camera and wearing his U.S. Army dress greens as he left Kalispell, Montana. He called her on February 22, Tony’s birthday, when he might have gone out into the woods to hunt or fish. And, finally, he always called on March 29, the day Tony died in Vietnam. “My mother was really never the same,” said Harness, sitting in Buffalo over five decades later,...