MORNING NEWSBREAK | A traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington D.C., “The Wall That Heals,” will be on display in Ridgeville starting tomorrow.
Visitors will be able to visit the memorial at the Dorchester Heritage Center. It will be open 24/7 started Thursday through 2 p.m. Sunday.
The three-quarter scale replica of the memorial wall bears the names of 58,281 men and women who died in the Vietnam War and also honors the more than 3 million Americans who served. The wall is nearly the length of a football field at 375 feet, the largest of the four replicas that tour the country.
A mobile education center and information trailer will accompany the memorial with several other displays, including:
- Hometown Heroes: a rotation of digital photos of local service members;
- In Memory Honor Roll: a digital photo display of South Carolina Vietnam veterans. This program honors veterans who returned home but died of war-related causes;
- An in-memory plaque that honors other Vietnam veterans who returned home but later died of unrelated causes.
Heritage Center leaders expect more than 10,000 guests to visit the memorial during its stay. About 100 volunteers are still needed to not only monitor the wall but also support visiting families.
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