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Peoria a stop for ‘moving’ Vietnam memorial wall BY MAXIMO AGUILAR LAWLOR Peoria Times Staff Writer
Inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., are the names of 58,000 fallen Vietnam-era soldiers. A half-size replica of that memorial — The Traveling Wall — and the names it contains are slated to hit the city of Peoria this fall. Ironwood District Councilman Bill Patena was the leading force and inspiration in bringing the wall to Peoria. From visiting both the Washington, D.C., memorial in person and seeing The Moving Wall in person, Patena gave a lot of thought when pursuing this project. He knew that he had to bring it home.
“First of all, I want to give the opportunity for everyone in the West Valley who has not had the opportunity to go to Washington, D.C., or to see The Moving Wall and experience it,” Patena said. “The second reason is I’m hoping we’re going to get a ton of young adults — high school kids and some grade school kids — to come out and look at the wall. When you fight a war half a world away, life in the United States goes on just like every other day — you go to the movies, you go to the park, you go out to dinner — and people half a world away are getting either wounded or killed.” The Moving Wall will occupy Rio Vista Park from Thursday, September 5, through Monday, September 9.
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“Those 58,000 names — when you look at them and you touch that wall and see what devastation war is — I think it’s going to give some of these kids and even some adults the opportunity to see how devastating war is to this country,” Patena said. The Moving Wall has traveled the United States since 1984, during which it has made its way into the hearts of veterans and families from all across the nation. Bob Moss, special events supervisor, is one of the individuals who oversee The Moving Wall’s inclusion in Peoria. He said the city will always be adamant in supporting and celebrating the nation’s troops and veterans. SEE VIETNAM PAGE 3
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More than three months after an explosion at an Arizona Public Service (APS) substation in Surprise injured four Peoria firefighters, the source of the incident remains to be determined. An incident report, recently released by the Surprise Fire-Medical Department and obtained by Peoria Times, further detailed the response procedures to the April 19 incident at the McMicken Energy Storage facility near Deer Valley Road and Grand Avenue. But few new details surfaced. The investigation is still in progress. And the four injured Peoria firefighters — Capt. Hunter Clare, Engineer Justin Lopez and firefighters Matt Cottini and Jake Ciulla — are still SEE FIREFIGHTERS PAGE 6
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