News from the FCS
April 20th, 2018, 05:30 PM
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – The panels containing the names of more than 58,000 American men and women who lost their lives serving in the Vietnam War not just weighed heavy on the arms of players and coaches from the Tennessee Tech football team on Wednesday morning, but heavy on their hearts and minds.The team helped install The Wall That Heals this week, a traveling 375-foot replica of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Wall, stationed at the Putnam County Sports Complex (497 Whiteaker Springs Road, Cookeville) through Sunday, with the event’s closing ceremonies scheduled for 1 p.m. that day.In those moments helping put The Wall That Heals together, it wasn’t just a community service project. It was a history lesson, a lesson in sacrifice and heroism, a lesson in true courage.
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