OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – An 80% replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. will be on display in Oshkosh over the next several days.
On Wednesday, the “Traveling Wall” from the American Veterans Traveling Tribute returned to Northeast Wisconsin for another visit.
An 80% replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. will be on display in Oshkosh over the next several days. (WLUK)
The replica memorial wall honors members of the U.S. armed forces who fought and died in the Vietnam War and service members who were unaccounted for (missing in action). It measures eight feet tall at the apex and is 360 feet long.
“It has the same 58,300 names on it and you can come out and do your rubbings and everything just like the wall in D.C.,” said Rick Helms, commander of Sons of the American Legion Squadron 70.
That is the organization hosting the Traveling Wall at the Sunnyview Expo Center in Oshkosh. It will be open to the public 24 hours a day at no cost from 3 p.m. Thursday until noon Sunday.
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