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The Fayette County Cultural Trust and Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus have partnered together to host The Wall That Heals at Penn State, Fayette from October 12 - 15 2023. This traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall is a 3/4 replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. On Veterans Day 1996, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) unveiled a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., designed to travel to communities throughout the United States. Since its dedication, The Wall That Heals has been displayed at nearly 700 communities throughout the nation, spreading the Memorial’s healing legacy to millions. Bringing The Wall That Heals to Fayette County and the surrounding area allows the souls enshrined on the Memorial to exist once more among family and friends in the peace and comfort of familiar surroundings. The traveling exhibit provides thousands of veterans who have been unable to cope with the prospect of facing the Wall to find the strength and courage to do so within their own communities, thus allowing the healing process to begin. The main components of The Wall That Heals are the Wall replica and the mobile Education Center. The Wall That Heals exhibit was on the road for more than 13,000 miles and visited 26 communities from coast to coast during its 2021 season. It has been escorted by more than 3,000 vehicles into those communities, and they were able to spread The Wall’s healing legacy to nearly 200,000 visitors. Guided tours of the exhibit were provided to more than 12,000 students so far. Pennsylvania is home to more than 296,000 Vietnam War veterans, and the Southwestern region in particular played an important role in opposing, supporting, documenting, and prolonging the conflict between North and South Vietnamese. In this magazine we provide the faces and names of those in our area that were killed in Vietnam from 1963 - 1972. We also included the surrounding counties that had casualities during this war and approximate miles and driving times to Penn State, Fayette which is centrally located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
This Special Edition of the Connellsville Crossroads Magazine is available on-line only and FREE to the public. We have not only included Fayette County in this publication but also Allegheny County, PA, Greene County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmorelannd County, PA, Garrett County, Maryland, Preston County, West Virginia and Monongalia County, West Virginia. All of these counties had men that were killed in action during the Vietnam War and are less than a 2 hour drive from Penn State, Fayette. This memorial is FREE for people to come and visit, reflect upon and remember those that died for our country.
There are 58,276 names on the wall. 39,996 were just 22 or younger. 8,283 were 19 years old. 33,103 were 18 years old. 12 were 17 years old. 5 were 16 years old.
There are 3 sets of fathers and sons on the wall. 31 sets of parents lost 2 of their sons. 997 were killed their first day. 1,448 were killed on their last day. 8 women were on the wall, nurses. 244 soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor during the war and 160 of them are on the wall.
The Wall That Heals will be at Penn State, Fayette on October 12 - 15. This exhibit will be FREE to the public and open from Thursday 2 p.m. Oct 12 to Sunday 2 p.m. Oct 15 24 hours per day. Along with the exhibit will be an educational center. We also invite area schools to plan field trips to this exhibit and learn about the Vietnam War. For further information please visit our web page at:
fayettetrust.org/wall-that-heals-2023 Although this exhibit is FREE to the public we are soliciting donations to cover the cost of hosting the wall. Those that donate will be included on the commemoration brochure. Please see page 82 on how to make a donation.
Committee Name: Fayette County, Pennsylvania 2023
693 Service members lost their lives around our area during the Vietnam War. The below is a breakdown by county.
