Photo Gallery: Replica Vietnam War Memorial Wall comes to Costa Mesa
Jeanette Chervony, 52, of Costa Mesa points to her father Eddie Chervony’s name on the traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday. Chervony was 13 months old when her father, a member of the U.S. Army 77th Field Artillery, was killed in combat on May 5, 1968 at age 21.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Volunteers begin putting together the traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Friend Michael Cohen, left, 64, of Orange comforts U.S. Army veteran Paul Quental, 73, of Irvine who became emotional while remembering the friends he lost and whose names are on the Wall That Heals on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Volunteers install the last panel of the Wall That Heals at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)U.S. Army veteran Tim Richards helps carry panels of the Wall That Heals at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Volunteer Dave Fraser checks to make sure the sections of the Wall That Heals are lining up correctly at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Volunteers put together the Wall That Heals at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)U.S. Army veteran Tony Barone, 75, of Huntington Beach, who served during the Vietnam War from 1963-64 but did not see combat, looks over names on the Wall That Heals at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Three U.S. Marines have lunch in the shade of a tree after helping put together the Wall That Heals at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)Dozens of volunteers line up for a photo after putting together the Wall That Heals at Estancia Park in Costa Mesa on Wednesday, April 10, 2019.
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