Since November 1982, Americans have been able to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., a powerful memorial to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice. \u00a0<\/p>\n
But it’s a journey that is tough to make for some; not everyone can get to D.C. and pay they’re respects. So in 1996, a traveling wall was created to make this monument accessible to every American. \u00a0<\/p>\n
This week, the Wall that Heals is stopping in Wylie.<\/p>\n
Piece by piece, panel by panel, volunteers in Wylie are putting together something special. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“There are people coming that served in Vietnam, Vietnam veterans, that don’t get a chance to see the wall in Washington, D.C. This gives them a chance to come and say goodbye,” said Mary Lange, a veteran.<\/p>\n
Lange’s husband served in Vietnam. He passed away, but Lange wanted to bring the wall to North Texas for him. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“He never got to go to the Vietnam Wall up in Washington, but he would be proud that it was here,” she said.<\/p>\n
It’s her way of honoring her husband and those who gave all. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“On the wall, we have 58,281 names. Those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, male and female,” said Rodney Gonsalves, a site manager for the wall\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gonsalves is driven to bring the wall to every corner of the country. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s very emotional for many, and that’s the reason why we do this. If they can’t see the wall, we will bring the wall to them,” he said.<\/p>\n
Visitors will have a moment to honor, reflect, and heal. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“I am so proud of Wylie, I’m so proud that it’s here. There are names on that wall that mean so much to so many. It takes my breath away,” said Lange.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The wall is open 24\/7 at Founders Park in Wylie to visitors until Sunday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since November 1982, Americans have been able to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., a powerful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[430,27,29,28,1913,12100],"class_list":["post-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-veterans","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}