Video: Weekend Events Held in Tupelo to Honor Heroes
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TUPELO, Miss. (WCBI) — Tupelo doesn’t want to rival Washington D.C., but it wants to come close.
Plans are moving forward to construct a 60 percent scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, at Veterans Park.
On Saturday, the city of Tupelo held a Weekend for Our Heroes 5K run, as well as helicopter rides and other events to help raise the $800,000 needed to complete the project.
Organizers say roughly one-third of the funds have been raised.
The planned black granite monument will contain the names of the 58,267 Americans killed in the Vietnam War.
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