Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Oregon

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, traveling replica, on display during long holiday weekend
By Larry Bingham
The Oregonian
on November 07, 2012

Faith Cathcart, The Oregonian PORTLAND, OREGON - November 6, 2012 - Navy Veteran Daniel Brooks arrived at Skyline Memorial Gardens with the Patriot Guard Riders who accompanied the arrival of the Dignity Memorial Wall, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall in Washington DC. Faith

The last time Dignity Memorial Gardens, a national chain of funeral homes and cemeteries, brought its replica Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall to Portland, Dan Wilhelm wanted to be a part of putting it together.

Wilhelm, a Vietnam vet, was at Lincoln Memorial Garden Cemetery in Southeast Portland in 2006 when the tractor trailer arrived. He was a member of the crew that set up the elevated ramp on a bed and soil and gravel and laid the 240 feet of walkway. When the 8-foot tall individual wall panels of faux granite were unloaded, he was one of four men who carried each from the truck and set it in place.

For 63-year-old Wilhelm, who was drafted into the Army in 1967 and enlisted in the Navy in 1977, "it was a privilege to touch" each of the panels.
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