Remembered at the MUB

Memorial Day may be over, but memories of New Hampshire’s war dead are kept alive at the War Memorial room at the MUB. Recently, a visitor left this picture, of Raymond L. Paradis, a Nashua soldier who was killed in Vietnam in May 1970. Paradis was an Army photographer when the helicopter he was in was shot down as it returned to the Pleiku army base in Vietnam from a combat mission in Cambodia.
The photograph, with a rubbing of Paradis’s name taken from “The Wall” at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., included no note or clue as to who left it, or why.
Dedicated in 1953 by former governor Hugh Gregg, the Memorial Union Building (MUB) is the official State of New Hampshire war memorial and student union.
Quiet and bathed in light filtering through a stained glass wall, the Memorial Room is open for silent reflection.
– JG