Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 05 - 02/12/06 to 01/21/10

Re: The Wall -- 2007
In Response To: The Wall -- 2007 ()

: Next year will be the 25th Anniversary of the
: Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC;
: The Wall.

: As they did at the 20th Anniversary in 2002,
: they will be asking for volunteers to help
: read aloud each name on The Wall during the
: Veterans Day ceremonies next November.
: Several of us helped out with that, four
: years ago. They read names around-the-clock
: for 4 or 5 days, and each volunteer stands
: at a microphone on a stage at the apex of
: The Wall and reads 40 to 60 names from a
: list on paper that they supply to you.

: I think we should make an effort next year to
: arrange for 119th veterans to read every one
: of our own 119th friends' names, and I think
: we can arrange to be able to do that. The
: Memorial Fund people were very cooperative
: last time.

: As far as I have been able to determine, we
: have 63 of our friends from the 119th on The
: Wall, and they are in about 25
: closely-spaced (semi-contiguous) groups.
: This means we can have 25 separate people
: read, or some of us could do more than one
: group. They arrange it so that each person
: reads about 40 to 60 names in the order that
: they appear on The Wall. If we tell the Wall
: people where our guys appear, I am sure they
: can arrange the groups to include all of our
: names for us. I have that information.

: This is just a heads-up to get everyone sort of
: thinking about it. I will get in touch with
: the Memorial Fund folks right after the
: first of the year, when they start working
: on it, and try to help them to understand
: what we would like to do. I expect that they
: will be as cooperative as they can be. I
: will post news as I have it.

: Anyone interested in participating next
: Veterans Day at The Wall in Washington DC,
: check in when you get a chance. Nothing is
: in stone, it would just be good if we all
: get an idea of who might be thinking of
: doing this for our friends.

Okay. We got progress.

With the help of an old pal I have been in touch with Jan Scruggs, Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, the outfit in charge of The Wall.

I have jumped the gun by months, but he assured me today that we will figure out how to get this done when the time comes. Barring some unforeseen development, we are in business.

I will keep posting news as available, but there will not be much for several months. I do know that we will have about 25 groups of names to read, at all hours of the day and night, and during the three or four days immediately before Veterans Day. If you are interested in helping us out, please make loose plans accordingly (and let me know even if your plans are very tentative; I will do what I can to work around your schedule, and it will help me a little with planning.)

What it boils down to is this: We need to place people there, at The Wall during the week before Veterans Day in November, when they tell us to, about 25 times, period.

The plan is coming together.

Bob K--

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