Emotional Gathering at Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall

TEMECULA: Strong emotions emanate from The Moving Wall
Hundreds are expected to visit the exhibit, a 252-foot-long replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., this weekend
The Press Enterprise
BY TOM SHERIDAN
STAFF WRITER
Published: Oct. 10, 2014

Volunteer Rocky Rockers, 87, helps Marti Scott copy a name from The Moving Wall, a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at Sam Hicks Monument Park in Old Town Temecula.
FRANK BELLINO, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The sniffles – as soft as the sunlight filtering through the leaves on a fall morning – could be heard among the visitors to The Moving Wall, a mobile replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial visiting Temecula this weekend.

Mark Sitar, 64, of Temecula, a Vietnam-era Army veteran, was one of the volunteers manning the exhibit at Sam Hicks Monument Park on Friday.

“This is going to be open 24 hours,” said Sitar. “And there will be people here at 2 o’clock in the morning, because they don’t want people to see them cry.”

The half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is sizable, consisting of 74 panels and stretching 252 feet. It is on display at the park on the outskirts of Old Town Temecula. It has visited more than 1,000 U.S. cities since it began traveling the country 30 years ago.
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