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05-27-2010: The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall
As a Lewisville City Councilman, I had the honor of
being invited to help setup
The Vietnam Traveling
Memorial Wall in the neighboring city of Farmers
Branch, TX. I have attached a few pictures of the setup below. It is
being setup for Farmer’s Branch Liberty Fest 2010 that is to be held on May
28-29, 2010. The wall will be on display in the Liberty Plaza until the morning of June 1,
2010.
It took nearly 5 hours to setup with the help of about
40 people that included the Knights of Columbus, elected officials from several
neighboring cities, Farmers Branch personnel, and other citizens. It will be on display at the Farmer’s Branch Liberty Plaza until
Tuesday morning when it will be taken down for its next destination.
05-30-2010: Added more pictures (See below) NAMES: A key element to the design
of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is the names of the men and women who died
while serving with the U.S. Armed Forces in the Vietnam War. There are more than
58,000 names inscribed on the black granite Memorial.
The list of names begins at the vertex of the walls
below the year of the first casualty, and continues to the end of the east wall.
It resumes at the tip of the west wall, ending at the vertex, above the year of
the last death. With the meeting of the beginning and ending, a major epoch in
American history is signified.
Each of the walls is composed of 70 separate inscribed
panels. The largest panels have 137 lines of names; the shortest have one line.
There is an average of five names per line. Each panel is numbered from "1" to
"70" at the base of each panel, with West Panel 1 and East Panel 1 meeting at
the vertex, leading out to East or West Panel 70.
The names of the first casualties appear on the top of
East Panel 1 below the date "1959." The chronological listing by casualty date
of the names proceeds left to right, line by line, down each panel, and then to
the top line of the panel to its right, as though the panels were pages in a
book, until East Panel 70, whereupon the sequence of names begins on West Panel
70, proceeding to West Panel 1 at the vertex. The last casualties are listed on
the bottom line of West Panel 1 above the date "1975."
Photos: (USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO VIEW Slide show)
The monument sign at the entrance of Liberty Plaza in Farmers Branch The middle vertex of the wall the last part of the west side of the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall The west panels of the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall. Starting the East panels of the wall East panels of the Vietnam Memorial Traveling Wall
The monument sign at the entrance of Liberty Plaza in Farmers Branch
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