TRAVELING TRIBUTE PORTABLE VIETNAM WALL ON DISPLAY IN LANCASTER.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - Even before the aluminum panels were all bolted together, June Hagemeier Hux was looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the name of Thomas Hagemeier, her son. She had visited the Moving Wall Vietnam Memorial when it came to Victorville and Palmdale, and now she was scanning it again for her son - killed in battle in Long An on July 3, 1969, a 20-year-old private first class who had been in the Army five months and in Vietnam six weeks. She found him finally on panel 21W, line 51 - between the names of Marine Cpl. John Fordham John Fordham was Bishop of Durham and Bishop of Ely. He was keeper of the privy seal of Prince Richard from 1376 to 1377 and Dean of Wells before being named Lord Privy Seal in June of 1377. He held that office until December of 1381. and Army Spc. 4 Richard Key, killed the same day in other battles in South Vietnam South Vietnam: see Vietnam. . ``It still hurts. It hurts real badly,'' Hagemeier, 80, said. More than 400 people showed up Wednesday for a ceremony welcoming the Moving Wall, a half-scale reproduction of the famous Vietnam Veterans This article is about the French band. For veterans of the Vietnam War, see Vietnam veteran. The Vietnam Veterans were a six-person French psychedelic group that released six records in the 1980s. The band was praised by many alternative music publications. National Memorial in Washington D.C., to Lancaster City Park through July 24. The wall will be open to visitors 24 hours a day. Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. commander Maj. Gen. Doug Pearson, who flew 137 combat missions in Vietnam and watched his flight commander get shot down right in front of him in 1972, threw the wall a salute. ``I am honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. to have served with you,'' the general said. Lancaster veteran George Palermo said he first visited the Moving Wall in 1990 after driving by and seeing it on the lawn of the federal building in Redondo Beach Redondo Beach (rĭdŏn`dō), city (1990 pop. 60,167), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1892. Once a commercial port for Los Angeles, it is a residential and resort city with a protected harbor and an excellent marina. . He has visited it repeatedly all around Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, since then, and saw the real wall in Washington, D.C., once. ``I felt myself being drawn into that wall,'' Palermo said of his first visit. ``I felt I fitted better within that wall, with those names, than I did with the life in which I had existed since I left Vietnam.'' Palermo is a member of a Christian Vietnam veterans organization called Point Man International. The organization stations volunteers at the wall's appearances, concentrating on nighttime - when many veterans come to visit unbothered by crowds. ``They come at night and they can be quiet and alone with their friends,'' Palermo said. ``These guys will bring a bottle of beer to their friends and sit down and share it with them.'' The wall provides a different experience than a typical Memorial Day or Veterans Day ceremony, Palermo said, ``because of those names. I know for me and other veterans, they don't walk up and see a list of names. They walk up and see their friends.'' More than 250 feet long and at its highest five feet tall - half that of the Washington wall - the Moving Wall bears 58,226 names - six more than when it came to Palmdale in 1999. An information center lets visitors look up names to find where they are listed on the panels - which begin with the first U.S. combat death in 1959 and end with 18 men killed on a mission to recapture recapture n. in income tax, the requirement that the taxpayer pay the amount of tax savings from past years due to accelerated depreciation or deferred capital gains upon sale of property. (See: income tax) RECAPTURE, war. an American freighter in 1975. Created by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF) was set up on April 27, 1979 as a non-profit organization by Jan Scruggs and several other Vietnam War veterans, in order to create a memorial for those who died during the Vietnam War without making any political statement about the , the traveling wall began its first tour in the fall of 1996. There are now three traveling walls. The wall is set up at the northern end of the park, which is on 10th Street West at Avenue K-8. Veterans are invited to talk about their experiences at informal gatherings called ``Vet Talks'' at 9 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday on the adjoining ball field. The talks are hosted by Point Man. ``My understanding is it will be pretty intense as people talk about their experiences and what they've gone through since then,'' said parks official Bob Greene This article is about the modern journalist and author. For the personal trainer and fitness expert, see Bob Greene (fitness guru). For other persons named Robert Greene, see Robert Greene (disambiguation). Robert Bernard Greene, Jr. . CAPTION(S): 6 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) June Hagemeier Hux and her husband Jim Hux look for the name of her son, Thomas Hagemeier, on The Moving Wall, a traveling version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial, war memorial in Washington, D.C., built 1982. Designed by the American sculptor and architect Maya Ying Lin, it is a sloping, V-shaped, 493-ft (150-m) wall of highly polished black granite that descends 10 feet (3. on display in Lancaster through July 24. (3 -- color) Visiting The Moving Wall at Lancaster City Park, Richard Triplett puts flowers at the name of Marine Lance Cpl. Leonard Burris, a family friend who died Feb. 19, 1967, in Vietnam at age 19. (4 -- color) The Moving Wall - a portable, half-size version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - will be on display and open for visits 24 hours a day at Lancaster City Park through July 24. (5 -- color) As the audience salutes, a U.S. Marine Corps color guard posts the colors during ceremonies at The Moving Wall, on display through July 24 at Lancaster City Park. (6 -- color) Workers assemble The Moving Wall - a half-size version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. - in Lancaster City Park, where it will be on display through July 24. 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