Vietnam memorial coming to Lakeland
When the traveling wall was in Collierville in 2019, Ellie Vinson reflected while her husband Jim, a Vietnam veteran, walked in the background. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian file)
The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall is coming to Lakeland next month.
The traveling wall, which features more than 58,000 names, is a three-fifths scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., measuring 6 feet tall at the center and nearly 300 feet long. It will be in Lakeland, at 9822 Huff N Puff Road, from Friday, Aug. 23, to Sunday, Aug. 25.
“This is more than just a memorial to the Vietnam veterans,” said Terry Adams, the event’s program director and CEO/president of the Mid-South Veterans League Inc. and the MVLI Foundation. “It also has a panel for each of the KIAs (those killed in action) of all of the conflicts since, including Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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