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2021 commemorates the 50th anniversary of this federal holiday.

New Brown, a Pennsylvania native who relocated to Craven County 15 years ago, can still remember the young men in Valley Forge Military Hospital, the ones who returned from Vietnam crippled and maimed, the ones who, despite their injuries, would make a point of showing off for her in their wheelchairs. The memory of those young men has risen again in Brown’s mind this week. As one of the 250 citizens who volunteered to serve at the The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall being displayed at Lawson Creek Park through Sunday, Brown lent her time and energy to help set up the “The Wall That Heals...

The touring Vietnam  Memorial Wall replica - The Wall that Heals - a three-quarter scale of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in the nation's capital, has traveled through 700 U.S. cities in the past 25 years. It's first planned visit to New Bern in 2020 was postponed due to COVID-19, but it will arrive this week for a four-day stay. Here are some things you should know. 1. Where will the Vietnam Memorial Wall / The Wall that Heals be located? April 8 to 11 in Lawson Creek Park, free, 24 hours a day, hosted by American Legion Post 539 and the Knights of Columbus, Assembly 1820. Programs will include...

Local residents working to bring Vietnam Wall replica to Franklin All of the sudden, the letters stopped coming. Kathy Ballou didn’t think much of it. As a young Girl Scout, she had been pen pals with a U.S. Army soldier from Alabama, Sgt. Larry Joseph Purcell, who was serving in Vietnam at the time. She would send him news from the United States, as well as packets of Kool-Aid that he requested — to make the muddy water where he was stationed bearable to drink. The whole idea was to thank him for his service. When her letters didn’t get any reply, Ballou figured Purcell had been discha...

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