This is an email I recently received from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund:
It’s a question asked every year, and the answer is often difficult to put into words. It is a transformative experience, and when you witness our three-quarter scale traveling replica and Education Center arrive in a community, the answer becomes quite clear.
Inside the 53-foot trailer that becomes the Education Center is our three-quarter scale Wall replica, which carries the more than 58,000 names of service members who died or were missing in action during the Vietnam War. The 58,000 names are inscribed on 140 panels that span 375 feet, and in that space, something miraculous happens: it becomes a place of healing.
The Wall That Heals brings the power and purpose of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to our hometowns. Each site becomes sacred ground, and while we are there, it is always open, always welcoming, and always healing. Here, veterans find a comforting space to remember, honor, and grieve. Families get a chance to visit their loved ones. Communities and younger generations can witness the service and sacrifice of their hometown heroes.
The transformation, from open ground to hallowed ground, is made possible by you. Your support keeps this symbol of honor, remembrance, and healing on the road, reaching those who need it most.
We hope you can visit us on the road and experience the impact of your support. Here is the schedule for the rest of 2025:
CITY HOST OPENING CLOSING
| St. Louis County, MO | The Wall That Heals – St. Louis County, MO | 7/24/25 | 7/27/25 |
| Buckner, MO | The Wall That Heals – Buckner, MO | 7/31/25 | 8/3/25 |
| Nevada, IA | Main Street Nevada | 8/7/25 | 8/10/25 |
| Emporia, KS | The Wall That Heals Emporia | 8/14/25 | 8/17/25 |
| Spokane, WA | WA State Fallen Heroes Project | 8/28/25 | 8/31/25 |
| Ellensburg, WA | Kittitas County Rotaries | 9/4/25 | 9/7/25 |
| Port Townsend, WA | American Legion Post #26 & Hadlock VFW Post 7498 | 9/11/25 | 9/14/25 |
| Independence, OR | Veterans & Independence OR The Wall That Heals 2025 | 9/18/25 | 9/21/25 |
| Orange, CA | The Wall That Heals – Orange 2025 | 10/2/25 | 10/5/25 |
| Clovis, CA | The Wall That Heals Central Valley | 10/9/25 | 10/12/25 |
| American Canyon, CA | City of American Canyon | 10/16/25 | 10/19/25 |
| Wylie, TX | The Wall That Heals – Wylie Host Committee | 10/30/25 | 11/2/25 |
| Athens, AL | Athens State University | 11/6/25 | 11/9/25 |
| Crystal Springs, MS | MS Patriots and The City of Crystal Springs | 11/13/25 | 11/16/25 |
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CherriesWriter - Vietnam War website 
Thank you for this article. It is an honor to happenstantially live about 4 miles from its replica location in Alpharetta Georgia. The concept of the Wall is that as long as the name of a person is not forgotten, their memory endures. The Wall represents that memory brought about from the misguided attempt of the US to continue the French Colonial mentality that ruled Vietnam for 100 years. The irony is that Vietcong leader Ho Chi Minh who travelled around the world as a seaman and worked as a busboy during his visit to New York City. In New York is where Ho read the Declaration of Independence which inspired him to liberate Vietnam from the Colonial rule of Vietnam from France AND the US. The tragedy of the illegal (“Gulf of Tonkin”), immoral, and wasteful Vietnam War is that I have numerous friends whose names are inscribed on the Wall or still have PTSD from the “University of Ho Chi Minh.”
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I was a college teacher and the only one at the university who offered a course on the Vietnam War [Conflict]. I taught courses with the help of Vietnam Vets from a local chapter of VVA #138 South West Virgina. One semester, my students and I took some of our Vets to The Wall. One had never been able to go. He said he’d driven to D.C., but the closer he got to The Wall, he turned around. But this time, holding one of my students’ hand, he walked down, both of them in tears. Another of our Vets walked down with his hand on names and names and names. He told me they were all his brothers. Our Vet with my student came to me. “I made it. It’s okay. I needed to be here.” Another found his red-haired Sarg. Okie, no name, from Stillwater, Oklahoma—at the information booth that gave him the name and location of his name on The Wall.
Nothing is more powerful that Wall. m
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1st ANGLICO
Personally believe the visiting Veteran’s viewing the familiar name/s is afforded the ability to reconnect, reflect and reconcile with the fellow deceased Veterans. Veterans will attest to the demon “survivor’s guilt”. The Wall allows one to be as close as possible to fellow Veterans that know what was experienced in Vietnam. I suspect it allows one to hear and feel the presence of the deceased. In the living Veteran’s mind it affords the opportunity to offer the heartfelt apology a prayer or promise, if you will. Mine was, after visiting the traveling Wall when it toured Anchorage Ak., “guys, I’m going to live my best life to honor your selfless, honorable sacrifice “. I’ve done my best to maintain that oath (yes, but not without missteps and fumbles). Gale Fechik 7/71-12/71
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