The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos
FIRST PHOTO: Working under the guidance of traveling site managers who accompany the exhibit on its travels around America, volunteers work together to construct The Wall That Heals Thursday morning at War Memorial Stadium. The three-quarter-scale replica of The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. is scheduled to be on continuous display at the stadium through Wednesday at 1 p.m. Admission is free. Several events are planned, including an Agent Orange Awareness and In Memory Ceremony at 5:30 p.m. Saturday. A Veterans Walk along the Wall is scheduled for 3 p.m. Monday, with all Maui vets invited to participate. A closing ceremony is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday. The Wall is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 American men and women who gave their lives in the Vietnam War or remain missing. The mobile exhibit is a program of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and is hosted by the Maui County Veterans Council in conjunction with the County of Maui. The exhibit includes a Mobile Education Center.
SECOND PHOTO: Volunteers put a synthetic granite panel place Thursday. THIRD PHOTO: The daughters of Lawrence Robert Oliveira: Momi, Laurie, Lisa, Julie and Judy, team to carry the panel with his name on it on the long walk from The Mall That Heals truck to the center of War Memorial Stadium’s field Thursday afternoon. U.S. Army Capt. Lawrence Oliveira of Nahiku was wounded in Vietnam in 1969 and succumbed to his wounds in 1975. His name was recently added to The Wall.
The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photos

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