Thanks for this, useful to have the full context.
He was young and every loss is sad.
And unfortunately a lot of soldiers died in the Vietnam war. Every family will feel that deeply. It is nice that the city is marking their role.
From the point of view of wayfarer…..
I would equate this to a memorial bench and use the standards around that as I would say a bench like a street sign is a basic item that can be used as a memorial.
As you can see the only memorials eligible are those that are notable. This is because they need to be distinctive.
For this nomination to be eligible I would expect there to be information that they did something exceptional as a soldier, a high level of medal to mark something particularly heroic.
I would then expect that detail in the nomination. The street sign simply gives the name. I have seen similar signs which give the name and brief details of the special medals and action that they took. But there is nothing like that on this sign.
It is touching that care is taken to leave flowers which shows he is very much missed ( and I routinely see this with benches) but they are not part of what is nominated.
What is nominated is the street sign which does not look distinctive and from what has been said does not mark something exceptional. It is really nice that the local authority is recognising all these people and they are thus continuing to be remembered. But not everything can go in the database of wayspots and so it needs to be exceptional.