Replica Vietnam Wall comes to Cheyenne June 23, 2011Cheyenne mayor Richard Kaysen hugs a friend after an address at an opening ceremony for a replica of the Vietnam Wall on Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Lions Park. Kaysen served in the Army during the Vietnam War as a K-9 scout dog handler. The wall, containing the names of the more than 58,000 who died in the Vietnam War, will be on display until Sunday. Thomas Johnson, of Cheyenne, sketches the name of Richard Estrada, a hometown friend from Bridgeport, Neb., off of a replica Vietnam Wall after an opening ceremony on Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Lions Park. The wall will be on display in Lions Park through Sunday. Bob McLelland watches as fellow bagpiper Dana Anderson, not pictured, warms up in the woods near a replica Vietnam Wall on Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Lions Park. McLelland and Anderson played "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipes during an opening ceremony for the replica wall. A small memento sits at the base of a replica Vietnam Wall on Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Lions Park. Honor guard members wait for the beginning of a ceremony on Thursday, June 23, 2011, at a replica Vietnam Wall in Lions Park. The wall will be on display through Sunday. The replica Vietnam Wall contains the names of the 58,000 Americans who died in the conflict, as seen on Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Lions Park.
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