\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRows of gleaming hot rods drew car lovers from across the region this weekend, but beneath the chrome and pride, the purpose ran far deeper: fueling a community effort to build a permanent Vietnam veterans memorial wall in the Sacramento area.The Citrus Heights Veterans Memorial Project, a local nonprofit, is working to erect what organizers describe as the only one of its kind on the West Coast\u2014a 95%\u2013scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., bearing the names of the 58,281 Americans who gave their lives. The wall is slated to stand just off Interstate 80 near Calvary Catholic Cemetery on land donated for the project.\u201cIt\u2019s called the \u2018Wall That Heals\u2019 because it brings an opportunity for those who have served to gain some degree of closure for the horrific things they lived through when they were in Vietnam,\u201d said Ray Riehle, who is helping lead the effort. With an estimated project value of about $3.5 million, organizers say no board member is paid and the effort is \u201cpurely for the community and purely for the West Coast.\u201dBacked by grassroots fundraisers like the weekend car show, the nonprofit has raised roughly $200,000 to date and is pushing to complete the memorial by the end of 2026. In addition to donations, the team is seeking in-kind support from contractors to help keep costs down while maintaining the project\u2019s long-term integrity.\u201cTo be a part of a memorial that is going to stand for 200 years\u2026 the names of the men who served, the women who served, will be there for generations,\u201d Riehle said. \u201cA reminder of what we are as a nation and what the men and women of this country are capable of doing.\u201d Donations and contractor inquiries can be directed to the Citrus Heights Veterans Memorial Project at www.CHVMP.org.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Rows of gleaming hot rods drew car lovers from across the region this weekend, but beneath the chrome and pride, the purpose ran far deeper: fueling a community effort to build a permanent Vietnam veterans memorial wall in the Sacramento area.<\/p>\n
The Citrus Heights Veterans Memorial Project, a local nonprofit, is working to erect what organizers describe as the only one of its kind on the West Coast\u2014a 95%\u2013scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., bearing the names of the 58,281 Americans who gave their lives. The wall is slated to stand just off Interstate 80 near Calvary Catholic Cemetery on land donated for the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s called the \u2018Wall That Heals\u2019 because it brings an opportunity for those who have served to gain some degree of closure for the horrific things they lived through when they were in Vietnam,\u201d said Ray Riehle, who is helping lead the effort. <\/p>\n
With an estimated project value of about $3.5 million, organizers say no board member is paid and the effort is \u201cpurely for the community and purely for the West Coast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Backed by grassroots fundraisers like the weekend car show, the nonprofit has raised roughly $200,000 to date and is pushing to complete the memorial by the end of 2026. In addition to donations, the team is seeking in-kind support from contractors to help keep costs down while maintaining the project\u2019s long-term integrity.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be a part of a memorial that is going to stand for 200 years\u2026 the names of the men who served, the women who served, will be there for generations,\u201d Riehle said. \u201cA reminder of what we are as a nation and what the men and women of this country are capable of doing.\u201d <\/p>\n
Donations and contractor inquiries can be directed to the Citrus Heights Veterans Memorial Project at www.CHVMP.org.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rows of gleaming hot rods drew car lovers from across the region this weekend, but beneath the chrome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1548,1561,1553,1552,1558,1551,1560,1555,1549,1556,1554,1562,1506,1559,121,873,123,122,1550,1563,490,1557],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-citrus-heights","tag-community-effort","tag-contractor","tag-donation","tag-healing","tag-hot-rod","tag-local-nonprofit","tag-man","tag-memorial-wall","tag-mission","tag-name","tag-organizer","tag-project","tag-ray-riehle","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-area","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-veterans-memorial","tag-west-coast","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}