The World - News from Feb. 3, 1986

The names of 96 Vietnam veterans who died outside the war’s official combat zone will be inscribed on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington this spring, Jan Scruggs, president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, said. The 96 were not among the original 57,939 names on the memorial because their names were not on the Defense Department’s official list of war casualties. They were killed outside the war zone while taking part in missions directly related to combat, Scruggs said.