Three years and $1 million spent, the promise of a Vietnam War memorial at Mile Square Park remains unfulfilled, and now First District OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen is pushing for the demolition of what has been built.

“It’s shameful, it’s a disgrace. This is not how we honor our veterans at all,” Nguyen said Monday, Nov. 10, as she stood in front of the incomplete memorial at a press conference she called. “We are now looking at removing this, and we’re gonna replace it. We gotta do it right, because we owe it to these veterans.”

OC Supervisor Janet Nguyen speaks in front of the unfinished, cracked, and dilapidated Vietnam War Memorial in Fountain Valley’s Mile Square Park on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. Nguyen wants to demolish it and have another built as a future project.(Photo by Mindy Scha

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