North Carolina Vietnam Veterans' Memorial [1]
Image of wall and close-up of bricks [4] Image of landscape [5]
Engraving: THE NORTH CAROLINA / VETERANS MEMORIAL / DEDICATED TO THE 216,000 / NORTH CAROLINIANS WHO SERVED / AND THE OVER 1,600 WHO WERE / KILLED OR MISSING IN THE VIETNAM WAR / MEMORIAL DAY 1991
Larger Bronze Plaque: CONTRIBUTORS TO THE / NORTH CAROLINA VIETNAM / VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK A TIME CAPSULE IS AT THE ENTRY OF THE PARK WITH THE NAMES / OF THE PEOPLE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THIS MEMORIAL MAJOR BENEFACTORS / BRICK ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA / N.C. MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION / STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA / N.C. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION / U.S. ARMY FT. BRAGG / N.C. NATIONAL GUARD / FIRST CITIZENS BANK / N.C. ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS // BENEFACTORS / THE WINSTON SALEM FOUNDATION / THE DAVIDSON COUNTY VETERANS COUNCIL / J.G. HANES FOUNDATION /GUILFORD MILLS INC. / THE WACHOVIA FOUNDATION / THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER // PATRONS / NCNB CORPORATION CHARITIES / BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES / DILLARD PAPER CO. / DICKSON FOUNDATION / SARA LEE CORP / JOHN W. & ANNA HANES FOUNDATION / N.C. ARTS COUNCIL / MARTIN MARIETTA AGGRGATES / CAROLINA STEEL / RJR TOBACCO CO. / R.C. KOONTS & SONS MASONRY / N.C. NURSEYMEN ASSOCIATION / PITTSBURGH BREWING CO. // SPONSORS / MONTGOMERY MONUMENT WORKS / JACOBS CREEK STONE CO. / BLUMENTHAL FOUNDATION / GREENSBORO NEWS & RECORD / LANCE CORP. / NATIONAL CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION / NORTHERN TELECOM INC. / SMITH RICHARDSON FOUNDATION / NORTHERN TELECOM, INC. / SMITH RICHARDS FOUNDATION / SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. / TEXFI INDUSTRIES / SMITH TURF AND IRRIGATION CO. / FLOYD LEE BARRIER POST NO. 3074 / CAROLINA CONCRETE MASONRY ASSOCIATION / LUCY MAY BODDIE FOUNDATION / TURFGRASS COUNCIL OF NORTH CAROLINA / FIRST UNION FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS / SIDLEY & AUSTIN / J. DENNIS HOBAN / WALT F. ULMER / J. KENNETH TORREYSON / JOHN P. D'ARCY / DAVID KIRK TATE / PAUL TRUSIK / CURVED PLYWOOD INC. / JEFFERSON PILOT FOUNDATION / CHARLES AND CLARA HINKLE / TAMARA NELSON LAINE / ARCHIBALD C. RUFTY / FAMCO MANY THANKS TO THE N.C. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, BRICK ASSOCIATION OF / NORTH CAROLINA, N.C. MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION, AND THE / N.C. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SPECIAL THANKS IS EXTENDED TO THE N.C. FOREST SERVICE WHICH DONATED / AND PLANTED 58,000 LOBLOLLY PINE SEEDLINGS ALONG THE 11 MILE STRETCH / BETWEEN GREENSBORO AND THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL PARK, PLANTED / FIVE YEARS AGO, THE EVERGREEN TREES SYMBOLIZE THE LIFELONG MEMORY / OF THE 58,000 AMERICANS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE VIETNAM WAR
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