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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Sunday was the last time that you could spot a replica of Washington D.C.’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall successful Clovis. "The Wall That Heals" was unfastened from Oct. 9 to 12, unfastened 24 hours a time and escaped to the public.
Vietnam Veteran Ignacio Haro was 1 of galore veterans astatine the replica partition and said that it was a agelong clip coming.
“It's a fantastic happening to person thing similar this for the veterans we have,” Vietnam Veteran Ignacio Haro said. “This is fantastic. Yeah, due to the fact that a batch of america can't spend to spell backmost east.”
Haro served successful the US Army during the Vietnam War alongside his cousin.
“Him and I were the closest, [my cousin] Frankie. We utilized to spell to Hollister to prime apricots there,” Haro said.
Ignacio brought his grandkids to spot the partition earlier the replica leaves Clovis and heads towards Northern California.
“I had seen the partition astir the past clip I was here, and I deliberation it was successful Selma galore years ago, but I didn't person immoderate grandchildren backmost then,” Haro said.
Ignacio has flooded a batch to beryllium lasting by his grandkids Sunday.
“I started drinking adjacent much and I conscionable went into a ammunition since and I stayed determination for a agelong time. After my sobriety, past each these guys came crossed and said that I should travel to this sooner,” Haro said.
Volunteers lined the replica partition to assistance folks find their loved ones.
“This is specified a healing infinitesimal for them, particularly for those that don't person the accidental to marque it to Washington, D.C. We've brought this present for them,” unpaid Marisol Gonzalez said.
Making memories to assistance reconcile with the past.
“I could spot my cousin's kids doing that. If I wasn't here, I cognize Frankie would person come,” Haro said.
This week, 68 veterans volition besides question to the nation's superior for the 33rd Central Valley Honor Flight.
