Vietnam War vets’ names sought for mobile ‘Wall’
Replica of Vietnam Veterans Memorial coming to town for Aug. 5-8 viewing
A travelling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. will be available for viewing at the Clinton Township offices Aug. 5-8.
Named “The Wall That Heals”, the replica of the granite memorial honoring those who died in the Vietnam War, contains 58,279 names as of September 2020.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is seeking the names of those who died after the war with an online memorial called In Memory. An annual ceremony, In Memory is held in Washington, D.C., to honor those who have died since their service in Vietnam, mostly of Agent Orange-related diseases and by suicide and post traumatic stress.
March 5 is the application deadline to add more people to In Memory. See vvmf.org/InMemory-Program/, or pick up an application at the Veterans Support Center of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 154, 18025 15 Mile Road, Clinton Township. The VVMF will add In Memory names at a ceremony in June.
Photos and biographies are displayed on the memorial list. In Memory names are not added to the granite memorial.
In Memory enrollees will be featured at the Aug. 5-8 presentation.
VVA Chapter 154, which is based in Clinton Township, circulates a traveling memorial with 2,654 names of Michigan men and women who died in the war, and maintains a memorial at the Freedom Hill County Park with 150 names of people from Macomb County.
For information, call 586-776-9810 or 586-2436293; email piofficer@vva154.com.