Lisa Owens sings the national anthem at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s opening ceremony for The Wall That Heals visit to Lake Pleasant on April 11, 2024. The exhibit is a three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and contains more than 58,000 names of veterans who lost their lives in the Vietnam War.
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Roel Zamora shades the name of a loved one onto a piece of paper at The Wall That Heals exhibit at Lake Pleasant in Peoria on April 11, 2024.
Lisa Owens sings the national anthem at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund’s opening ceremony for The Wall That Heals visit to Lake Pleasant on April 11, 2024. The exhibit is a three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and contains more than 58,000 names of veterans who lost their lives in the Vietnam War.
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Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Roel Zamora shades the name of a loved one onto a piece of paper at The Wall That Heals exhibit at Lake Pleasant in Peoria on April 11, 2024.
PEORIA – The Wall That Heals, a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is on display through Sunday at Lake Pleasant in Peoria. The traveling replica has been displayed in nearly 700 communities across the U.S., according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
The three-quarter-scale replica is 375 feet long and 7.5 feet tall and honors the more than 3 million Americans who served in the U.S. armed forces in the Vietnam War. It features the names of more than 58,000 who lost their lives in the war.
