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Vietnam 'Wall That Heals'

Coming To Neahwa Park

Council Member Paul van der Sommen, First Ward, holds a poster for The Wall That Heals, which Gene Schmidt, right, has scheduled to arrive in Neahwa Park for Memorial Day. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)

ONEONTA  – Two years after Gene Schmidt raised the funds and installed a monument to Oneonta high school students who died in the Vietnam War, he's bringing the "Wall That Heals" back to Otsego County.

"Last year, Princeton had 10,000 people come to the Wall," he said during the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting earlier tonight. "With everything we have going on Memorial Day, I'm sure that number will be eclipsed here."

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