By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
When “The Wall That Heals” arrives to Great Bend, Chairperson for the Great Bend Leadership Committee Larry Parsons is hopeful up 15,000 people will visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica.
The three-quarter replica from the memorial in Washington D.C. only makes 30 stops across the country each year. Parsons said the Great Bend stop in May is the only destination in the area this year.
"There is nothing else in Kansas," said Parsons. "There is nothing else in Nebraska. There is nothing else in Colorado. There is nothing else in Oklahoma. It'll be right here. I think we'll get a lot of television coverage on this event. Marysville had a few years ago and they had people out of Lincoln, Nebraska and Topeka almost every day there.
The 375-foot-long wall bears the names of the more than 58,000 American men and women who died during the Vietnam War. The wall will be displayed at Al Burns Field at Veterans Memorial Park May 11 – May 14 and is free to the public.