Residents of one Kentucky nursing home may not be well enough to visit the Washington, D.C., Vietnam Memorial. But the monument came to them last month.
The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall paid a visit to Tompkinsville, KY, in September. Residents and staff members of Signature HealthCARE of Monroe County made sure not to miss it.
The wall, which is part of the Vietnam and All Veterans of Brevard 501(c)(3) organization, stands about 6 feet tall at its center point and is about three-fifths the size of the actual memorial in the nation’s capital. It allows those who may not be able to visit D.C. to pause and reflect on the service and lives of those who died.
One resident who visited formerly served in the Army. He was able to see the name of a friend who died in the Vietnam War.
“For Tex, seeing the names on the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall meant the world to him. He said that he was very glad that he got to go see it, because he would never get to make it to see the one in Washington, D.C. during his lifetime,” facility spokeswoman Cait Crenshaw said.
