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the AV Wall is the nation’s most accurate tribute wall to the national memorial.
Funds — more than $102,000 for construc- tion — were raised in a community-based grass roots effort completed in 2009. The Point Man Antelope Valley organization, a veterans talking and peer counseling group, was designated the “Guardians of the Wall.”
“It’s not our wall,” said Vietnam veteran Mike Bertell. “We are the guardians, but it’s everyone’s wall.”
This year’s presentation of the AV Wall runs from 5 p.m., Nov. 8 until 8 a.m., Nov. 13 at Marie Kerr Park’s Palmdale Amphitheater, 2723 Rancho Vista Boulevard.
Major ceremonies fall on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, at 11 a.m., and there will be a Candlelight Memorial Walk that night at 9 p.m. Taps is played nightly at 10 p.m. and the AV Wall is open to the public 24 hours daily during the display period.
“Veterans will come at 1 or 2 a.m. just so that someone won’t be running up to try and talk to them when they search for a name,” said Stacia Nemeth, a member of the AV Wall committee.
More information can be obtained at www. AVWALL.org or by calling 661-524-6408.
Editor’s Note: Dennis Anderson, Sgt. U.S. Army, 1972-75, a veteran journalist, will be keynote speaker at the AV Wall on Veterans Day. He served in Cold War Europe at the end of
the Vietnam War Era. He traveled to Iraq as an embedded reporter, and reported on the dedica- tion of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington on Nov. 13, 1982.
Photograph courtesy of Dennis Anderson
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