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The Importance of Remembering…

A quarter of a million New Yorkers answered the call to serve during the Vietnam War. Like fellow veterans around the country, many who returned home encountered extensive animosity, the scapegoats of an unpopular war.  This memorial to their bravery and sacrifice recognizes their service and sacrifice, and preserves the names and voices of a generation once lost to controversy but now forever found.