Eyeing death rates of Vietnam War veterans
Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Diane Lake photographed at Pinelawn National Cemetery where her husband, Robert Lake is buried. (Sept. 8, 2010)
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Diane Lake, Vietnam War widow
WHEN Diane Lake began visiting her late husband's resting place at Long Island National Cemetery in Farmingdale, she became alarmed by what she saw nearby: memorial markers that showed many of her husband's fellow Vietnam veterans had died even younger than he had.
The markers, spaced along a wall where the ashes of her husband, Spc. 4th Class Robert Lake, and others are interred, indicate...
