Memorial Day events around town

05/29/11 Recommend this story? 9 a.m. -- "Ride to Remember" motorcyclists will gather at the Permian Basin Vietnam Memorial.

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SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS: Making way for the wall

06/17/11 Two big tents had been erected on the edge of the soccer field that would soon be home to the Moving Wall, a half-size replica of the Vietnam Memorial. Inside, some vets were unfolding military-style cots, while tables, chairs and bottles of water awaited assignment.

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Tracing Civil War ancestor rewarding, but also challenging

07/07/11 GETTYSBURG - Reading or hearing the casualty totals for any battle is overwhelming, but it becomes personal when one can reach out and touch the name of that single lost loved one or relative on a monument such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall.So it is when

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