‘It hurts’: Traveling Vietnam wall replica delivers both grief and relief in Hawaii

Vietnam veterans memorial wall replica returning to Hawaii

Marine Corps veteran Clarence “Eddie” Freeman’s last memories of Vietnam were seeing it from a helicopter as American forces evacuated thousands of American citizens and desperate Vietnamese refugees fleeing Saigon in 1975. He recalled that years later, when he went to Washington, D.C., and saw the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall, that “I wasn’t very excited about it when I was there. It was one of those subjects that was, I’m not gonna …

‘It hurts’: Traveling Vietnam wall replica delivers both grief and relief in Hawaii

A ceremony was held to begin the six-day display of the three-quarter-scale replica of the famed Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.