The shrine is not meant to replicate the shrine to Our Lady of La Vang in the village of La Vang, in
Quang Tri province of Vietnam, said Aaron Torrence, the shrine's architect.
Carter was a Marine private first class serving as a radio operator with H Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, in Vietnam's violent
Quang Tri province.
The missing people are from Thanh Hoa, Son La, Hoa Binh, central
Quang Tri province and northern Yen Bai province.
As things turned out, very little construction was accomplished, because of heavy NVA attacks throughout northern
Quang Tri province beginning in September and continuing through the Tet Offensive in early 1968.
intelligence reported heavy North Vietnamese Army infiltration from Laos and across the demilitarized zone into
Quang Tri Province. Only the South Vietnamese 1st Division and a single U.S.
2 when it was bound for
Quang Tri province in central Vietnam.
The decision to build the Buddha statue was taken by the Peoples Committee of
Quang Tri Province to commemorate the dead on both sides of the conflict.
By lunchtime on Sunday the typhoon had swept across Vietnam's Con Co island, some 30 kilometres off the coast of central
Quang Tri province, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.
Disaster official Le Tri Cong said more than 8,000 villagers in
Quang Tri province's coastal areas were evacuated to safe places as of Sunday night and 35,000 others from areas facing with serious flooding, landslides and flash floods are being evacuated.
The incident took place Saturday when seven men were captured by a gang in a forest in Vietnam's
Quang Tri province and take across the border, said Le Cong Dung, director of the provincial police department.
"The natural conditions of the provinces in the northern mountain regions of Vietnam is that of being capable of producing high yields and good cup quality while for instance, the Khe Sanh area of
Quang Tri province is an ideal Arabica growing area of 20,000 hectares of fertile land with basaltic soil, average temperatures from 20 to 25 degrees Celsius, and total rainfall of 2,300 mm a year," said an official Vietnamese government report on the Arabica coffee development plan.