As Wednesday marked a half-century of the Vietnam War, communities across Southern California honored the service and sacrifice of our veterans.
, a monument memorializing all members of the U.S armed forces in the Vietnam War was dedicated Wednesday at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
The monument also depicts three canteens, a backpack, flack jacket, hand grenades with holders, over-the-shoulder gun belt and pockets full of other supplies. The research and creative process for designing the Vietnam Veterans Monument started in August when the Nixon Foundation formed a committee of Vietnam veterans, a Gold Star family member from the war, Ron Pekar, the monument's artist, and members of the Nixon Foundation senior staff, according to Lopez.
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