"The Moving Wall", Warrens Cranberry Festival, Warrens, WI
N 44° 07.977 W 090° 30.399
15T E 699457 N 4889662
"The Moving Wall" is the half-size replica of the Washington, DC Vietnam Veterans Memorial and has been touring the country for more than twenty years. It was in Warrens, WI for the Cranberry Festival.
Waymark Code: WM2A8K
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 10/01/2007
Views: 65
This is a moving exhibit. You will not find it at the listed coordinates (unless you and it both come back to the Cranberry Festival.) To visit this waymark, please visit "The Moving Wall" at any of its scheduled locations (see the web site for the schedule.) When you post a visit, please include the coordinates of the wall where you visited it.
From "The Moving Wall" web site:
"The Moving Wall" is the half-size replica of the Washington, DC Vietnam Veterans Memorial and has been touring the country for more than twenty years. When John Devitt attended the 1982 dedication in Washington, he felt the positive power of "The Wall." He vowed to share that experience with those who did not have the opportunity to go to Washington.
John, Norris Shears, Gerry Haver, and other Vietnam veteran volunteers built The Moving Wall. It went on display for the first time in Tyler, Texas in October of 1984. Two structures of The Moving Wall now travel the USA from April through November, spending about a week at each site."
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I have been to the Wall in D.C. several times and this display has the same sense of awe as the original. Each time I visit a Vietnam memorial is a moving experience for me, especially so now that my father passed to be with the Lord. Dad served in Vietnam in 1967-1968. He contracted cancer in the 90's that was either caused by or at least exacerbated by exposure to Agent Orange.