Gun Deaths Since Newtown now exceeds U.S. Military deaths in 20 war-years

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13. And the beat goes on...

I visited Portland's memorial when I lived there. I also worked at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C. when I lived in Northern Virginia. It was a now-defunct nonprofit group formed by the original Wall volunteers that designed the name rubbing forms and provided them, free, to the National Park Service. The group was co-founded by my friend Peggy Donovan, who died of a brain tumor in hospice years ago, and my friend Ira Hamburg, who died of cancer Monday at his home in Virginia.

There also are about half a dozen mobile scale replicas of the Wall that are displayed around the country. My community built one of them--the only one that, with some exceptions, is displayed only in our local area and does not travel around the country. Ours is a half-scale replica that is updated every year to incorporate the changes made to the memorial in D.C.

Information about the schedules of the various 'Moving Walls' can be found by googling that term.