Vietnam Veterans who served and lost their lives will be remembered and honored here in the Summit City with a memorial wall.
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Vietnam veterans who served and lost their lives will be remembered and honored here in the summit city.
Fox 55's jentill neal has more on where the replica wall will be and what's needed to make it happen.
People who want the experience of honoring veter ans who served in the vietnam war won't have to travel to washington dc to do it.> 00:01:03-00:01:08"the feeling behind the wall is a closure."
A memorial wall just like the one in dc will stand in fort wayne honoring those who lost their lives.
It will be eight feet tall and 360 feet long.
"the dates at the base of the wall were the amount of men who were killed that day.
As each panel goes along you can see the numbers in a three day period and low numbers."
Fraizer lost some close friends in the war.
They come to mind as he looks at this wall.this wall gives others the opportunity to do the same.
He says there were more than 1500 who served and died.
00:00:18-00:00:40"they were great friends.
They were guys i went to grade school with.
They are men i have worked with.
It's a sad situation what happened, but i will never let them be forgotten."
Fort wayne city councilman geoff paddock echoed the sentiment presenting a resolution to city council in hopes of bringing awareness to the veterans memorial shrine and muesuem fundraising efforts.>00:00:20-00:00:32 "they're still raising money from private donors across the area to make sure they get this done.
It is an expensive piece and i think it's something that will be a huge draw for northeast indiana."
The groundbreaking for the wall will be 10a-m on veterans day.this vietnam memorial wall is only part of a bigger project, so the fundraising will continue until the five other memorial monuments are complete.in fort wayne, jentill neal fox 55 news.
They still need l-e-d lighting, concrete for footers and the pathways and sidewalks you can make a donation on their new website which we will have a link
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