Fallen comrades
remembered at Wall
SUN PHOTO BY CLINTON BURTON, cburton@sun-herald.com
Air Force veteran Charles Sooy Jr. points to the name of a high school friend, William Keeler, who died in Vietnam. Sooy was visiting the Vietnam Traveling Wall memorial in Pioneer Park on Dearborn Street in Englewood. The 288-foot-long, three-fifths-scale of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is on display around the clock through Monday.
SUN PHOTO BY CLINTON BURTON, cburton@sun-herald.com
The Vietnam Traveling Wall, inscribed with the names of the nearly 60,000 men and women killed in the Vietnam War, is on display around the clock in Pioneer Park on Dearborn Street in Englewood through Monday.
SUN PHOTO BY DANA SANCHEZ
A visitor to the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall in Englewood Thursday comforted another.
ENGLEWOOD — Visitors filed into Pioneer Park on Dearborn Street in a steady stream all day Thursday to visit the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall, many searching for names of loved ones among the nearly 60,000 men and women killed in the conflict.
But the wall doesn’t tell the whole story.
