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Just found out last evening that the Traveling Vietnam Wall is coming to Pinetop! I've always wanted to see it....I had quite a few friends who gave their all in Nam who's name I hope I can find on it. Has anyone else seen the wall?

Dennis

I went to DC with my grandparents when I was 15. We saw the Capitol Building, the White House (from a distance), the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, Ford's Theater, and the FBI building. Took a tour of Arlington where we saw JFK's eternal flame and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. I asked when and where we could see the Vietnam Memorial Wall. But my grandfather said he didn't want to see that.

Never found out why.

I didn't know there was a Traveling Wall. Thanks for letting us know, Dennis! I'll have to find out where and when I could see it.

Found it!

Main page -- http://www.themovingwall.org/

Schedule of display visits -- http://www.themovingwall.org/skeds/04/schedule04.htm

Last year the wall was here in Florence...I went to it during a school day in September (I believe it was 9-5-03). It's a real inspiration to me, because my dad was there in Nam in the 70's...too many forget why we went there, to preserve democracy for us all...

That's neat Dennis!

I saw the wall in DC about 15 years ago with my ex-husband and friends of ours. Our friend, Ted, was like 6'5" and an older gentleman asked him to take his paper and pencil and etch a name off of the wall that he couldn't reach. That was so touching. It is a very moving memorial.

Like I said before, I didn't get to go see the Wall during my first and only (so far) trip to DC.

And since that's the case, I don't recognize everything near it and around it. This is part of the Wall memorial also, right?

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~hairu/phot ... r_wall.JPG

(oops...you're gonna have to click the link and see it for yourselves. It was too big when I pasted it here.)

Are there names on the marble rows at the statues' feet? Or on the short black marble markers at the ends of the rows? Is there something special or symbolic about them or the number of soldiers depicted? And finally, is there a name attributed to this part of the memorial since it's not "The Wall?" I'd like to research it further.

Thanks!

Dug deeper and found it out myself. It's the Korean War memorial.

Korean War Veterans Memorial dedicated July 27, 1995.
Sculptor of Statue(s): Frank Gaylord.
Total Cost:
Dimensions

Walls: 164 feet long, 8 inches thick; more than 100 tons of highly polished granite; more than 2500 photographic, archival images representing the land, sea and air troops that supported those who fought in the war sandblasted onto wall; "Academy Black" granite from California.
Statues: 19 stainless steel statues; 7'3"-7'6" tall; each one nearly 1000 pounds; 15 Army, 2 Marines, 1 Navy Medic, 1 Air Force Observer; fiber optic lighting.
Pool of Remembrance: 30 feet in diameter; black granite from Canada.
223 piles driven into bedrock, 30-60 feet deep, supporting the statues and the wall.
United Nations Wall: raised granite curb lists the 22 nations that contributed to this first U.N. effort.
Land area: 2.2 acres.

Dennis...that will be humbling to you, I'm sure. The traveling wall came to our hometown in Illinois back in the 90's, and I was at the memorial in DC back in 1985 or so....one visit only in my lifetime thus far.

It was humbling and eerie at the same time...especially when I located names I knew.

I remember getting a call from one of our outlying companies while I was serving in Vietnam. We had lost one of our men, and my job was to relay that info on to the 21st Group HQ also in Nha Trang.

When looking at the wall, I found the name of that person who I had first reported as lost in action that day...and it made for a very eerie connection. There were other casualties that occurred in our battalion, but somehow his name came to me when I was looking over the list of those 50,000 names.

Thanks for links Duck.....here we are:

04/29 - 05/05 Lakeside, AZ


I can only imagine Steve........it must have been an eerie feeling!

Dennis