“I figured they’re going to be behind us, and they weren’t.”When he finally spotted the ship, he realized the two would soon collide, so he ran back to the small “signal shack,” alerting the other man on watch and mashing the communications button to let the bridge know a collision was imminent.The other man on watch with Kraus was on the shack’s roof at the time of the collision and was thrown from the Evans and onto the deck of the Melbourne, Kraus recalled.

It still kind of pisses me off.”Cmeyla’s dad, a Navy veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor, died at age 96 after years of trying to get the Defense Department or legislators or someone to recognize his son and the others.“And it always comes down to the lamest reasons,” Jack Cmeyla said. Unfortunately, at this time there is so much uncertainty as to when and what will happen once a return to normalcy occurs, we have decided to this year’s reunion until 2021.

He was so gravely injured he spent nearly a year in the hospital.Kraus, who has lived in California his whole life, said he was left with only minor injuries. 849, submitted in March by Senators Kevin Cramer, R-North Dakota, and Kirston Gillebrand, D-New York, the bill represents what some feel might be the last chance to get the victims honored.In the meantime, Kraus' association will honor the 50th anniversary of the collision at the end of this month during a four-day event to be held at the Evans' home port in Long Beach.The association, which includes 148 survivors of the collision, also is working on a project specifically to honor the three victims from Wisconsin. Existing space limitations only allow for two long names, a few more medium-size names and “several hundred shorter names,” he said.“Even with modifications, it’s uncertain. It now has a total of 19 co-sponsors. The USS Frank E. Evans, nicknamed the “Gray Ghost” for its ability to slip in and out of the mists during the Korean War, had been shelling the Vietnam coastline a couple weeks earlier. Our 74 gave up their lives in the Vietnam War just as those others listed on the Wall did, many of whom did not die in the “Combat Zone,” an arbitrary line drawn for tax purposes and not strategic. One notable example occurred in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan secured the addition of over 50 names of servicemembers who died on a 1965 plane crash departing from Hong Kong back to the war zone.Kraus pointed to that crash as an example of why the names of those lost on the Evans should also be included on the memorial. Because of the heroic efforts of the Evans' crew, what remained of the good ship was saved. "The crew of the Melbourne managed to rescue him and 16 others from the sunken front half of the Evans and 182 from the stern half of the Evans, which remained afloat.Recovery efforts came up with only one body, that of Seaman Kenneth Glines of Kansas City, Missouri, from the shark-infested water.Most of the men killed had been sleeping in their bunks at the time of the collision.They included three brothers, Gary, Gregory, and Kelly Sage from Niobrara, Nebraska. You might as well just say they died in the Vietnam War. Under an agreement with the Park Service, the fund is responsible to add names or change status symbols on the wall when directed.But besides the DOD regulations, carving a new name onto the wall wouldn’t be a simple, Tetz said. Kraus is the president and chairman.Before the Evans headed to the South China Sea, it operated in Vietnamese waters and was scheduled to return to the war zone afterward.But because the crash took place outside the geographical limit for the combat zone, the sailors who lost their lives were not eligible under Defense Department guidelines for inclusion on the memorial, said Tim Tetz, director of outreach for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.The fund does not take a position for or against the inclusion of names on the memorial. As it was, the Melbourne plowed directly into the Evans’ side, cutting the 376-foot vessel in half.

A group of senators along with members of the USS Frank E. Evans Association are continuing the fight to have the names of the "Lost 74" included on the memorial. “They deserve to be on that wall, so anything else other than that is just a slap in the face,” he said.

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