To celebrate the “The Wall That Heals” that was in Butte on Aug. 28 - Sept. 1, at Father Sheehan Park, Lee Enterprises, in partnership with our partners AARP of Montana, Town Pump and Jiffy Lube, are honoring and memorializing Vietnam veterans from Montana in this special “Stories of Honor” installment. The “Wall That Heals” traveling exhibit started in 1996 by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), is a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and travels to communities throughout the U.S. The VVMF exhibit “has been displayed at nearly 700 communities throughout the nation,” according to its website, “spreading the Memorial’s healing legacy to millions.” The exhibit in Butte is the only stop in Montana and one of 31 across the U.S. in 2024. For more information on the Wall that Heals events, visit vvmf.org/The-Wall-That-Heals/2024-The-Wall-That-Heals-Tour-Schedule/.
Montana Vietnam War veterans honored
More than three million Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Vietnam War, which occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from November 1955 to April 1975, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. Of those who served, 58,281 men and women — 266 of them from Montana — made the ultimate sacrifice.
To honor those brave service members who have passed,here's an alphabetical list and their county of record, sourced from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Wall of Faces website and Billings Gazette archives.
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