Veterans and residents will get a chance to visit a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. here in Orange County next week to remember the nearly 60,000 men and women who died fighting for their country.

“For those that lost family members in Vietnam – a lot of them won’t talk about it, it’s a silent thing that they just live with,” said Susan Wood, a veteran and Orange resident helping bring the wall to Orange County.

“They live with their loss every day, and we want them to remember that we haven’t forgotten that.”

Wood served in the Airforce for two and half years after high school during the Vietnam War – at one point helping return the belongings of slain soldiers in Vietnam back to their families and at another working at a missile base

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