Vietnam

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The Medal of Honor banners, with the help of the Lions Club, are at the Veteran's Memorial in Elizabethtown park.

Elizabethtown "In Memoriam Marker". Inscription: "This tablet is erected in memory of two citizens of Elizabethtown who were posthumously awarded our nations highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry & intrepidity in action at the risk of their lives above & beyond the call of duty."

	Second Lieutenant Robert Dale Reem U.S.M.C., Co. H., 3rd. Bn. 1st Marine Div. (Reinforced), Vicinity Chinhung-Ni, Korea 6 November 1950
	Sergeant William David Port U.S.A., Co. C. 5th. Bn., 1st Air Cav. Div. - Que Son Alley, Heip Duc Province, Republic of Vietnam 12 January 1968

More: November 11: Veterans Day

The official language of Vietnam is Vietnamese. English is the preferred second language.
About half the population speaks English to some extent. Vietnamese:

Austroasiatic language.
Classified with Hebrew, Russian and Urdu as "hard to learn" which depends a lot on which language you learned growing up.
Natively spoken by about 85 million people, several times more than all the other Austroasiatic languages put together.
Highly analytic and tonal.
Modifiers follow the words they modify.
Influenced by Middle Chinese with many loanwords from French.
Vietnamese sounds monosyllabic ti many, but is not.
Alphabet based on the Latin alphabet.