Milo Dianne L. Ray Rolling Thunder XIII		In Memory of Canadian Volunteers Who Served and Died in Southeast Asia 1959-1975 Since 1959 when the United States began it's struggle in Vietnam, approximately 40,000 Canadians voluntarily joined and served beside their brothers and sisters from the United States in all branches of the U.S. armed forces. There are 58,209 names inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., 103 of these names are of known Canadians who served and did not return from the Vietnam War.