THORNTON, CO…The Thornton Veterans Memorial Foundation, in partnership with the City of Thornton, will bring the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall to Thornton today.

At 10 a.m. a motorcycle escort will travel with the Wall to the multipurpose fields at the Margaret W. Carpenter Recreation Center, 11151 Colorado Boulevard. The motorcade escort departs from Graystone Castle at 120th & I-25, will go east on 120th Ave to Colorado Blvd, then south to the display site.  From 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. the wall will be set up with public viewing beginning at 6 p.m. tonight.

The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall is a 3/5 scale version of the original in Washington D.C. The original is the most-visited memorial in the country. The Traveling Wall will be in Thornton from July 3 to July 7, and will be available for public viewing 24 hours a day on those dates.

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