The Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Memorial, is coming to American Legion Post #82 in Windsor, Missouri, June 30-July 4. Post #82 would like to issue a statewide invitation to Missourians to come and honor our Vietnam Veterans; come to give them a proper welcome home and come to remember.

From 1961 to 1973, the United States military’s finest slogged through the jungles of Vietnam fighting a war where at least one thousand soldiers went missing in action, 150 thousand were wounded, and 58,220 soldiers died. Think of it: more soldiers died than could fill the seats in Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. Those soldier’s names live forever, carved on the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.

Sadly, soldiers from our own communities have a place on that wall, and in the hearts of their families, their friends, and the souls of every man and woman who answered the call to serve their nation. We grieve for them all, we lift their families up with honor, we recognize their friends who lived through the war and who came home to a different kind of hostile environment.

You can stand with the families and friends of these soldiers whose names are on that wall, hear their stories, and understand the sacrifice they - and their families - made to this country.

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