The Moving Wall arrives with added emotional support services

A moving experience in Lakeport
By MANDY FEDER MediaNews Group
Updated: 06/12/2009 07:04:32 AM PDT


LAKE COUNTY The Moving Wall comes to Lake County Fairground today to Monday. It's free to view 24 hours a day, for the duration of the time the wall is on display in Lakeport.

It is constructed for those who cannot travel to Washington D.C. to view the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial wall.

Opening ceremony is at 9 a.m. on Friday. It is a no cost, no vendor event. The closing ceremony is June 15 at 12:30 p.m. An information tent with Directory of Names and refreshments will be available. A support services tent will be available with counseling and veteran service representatives. Chaplains and Vietnam veterans will be available for additional emotional support.
My vice president, George Dorner and I made out the application to the Vietnam Combat Veterans Ltd., there are a few other moving walls out there that are copies of the original moving wall. We wanted the original. It's hard to get. It's in high demand. It took us two years to get it, Dean Gotham, president of Vietnam Veterans of America, Chapter 951 of Lakeport, said.

There are 58,256 names on the 252.8 foot, V-shaped, aluminum, tribute to those who gave their lives in the Vietnam War.

The names on the wall appear in chronological order based on the date of death. The names include confirmed casualties, as well as those who remain missing.

Gotham said he was elated when he found out that the wall would be brought to Lake County.
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