Replica Vietnam Veterans Memorial making stop in Warren this year
WARREN, Ohio (WKBN) – The traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be making its return to Trumbull County at the end of May.
The Wall That Heals is making its second trip to Warren. More than 13,000 people visited the memorial when it was first there in 2018.
The three-quarter scale replica of the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be escorted to the south lawn of Packard Music Hall on May 27.
Once it's set up, it'll be open 24 hours a day for the public to visit free of charge until its scheduled departure on June 1.
The names of the more than 58,000 men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam are on the wall.
'Those individuals that were killed in Vietnam, when they came home, their families held a quiet ceremony for them and the community didn't turn out. So it's a much different thing that we're going through today but it is really, really important that we remember them,' said Co-Chair Herm Breuer.
The Warren Heritage Center, in partnership with Denise and John York, helped bring the traveling memorial back to Warren. It's the only Ohio stop in 2025.
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