Real Estate Marketing
By Ken Dettelbach, Gateway Marketing LLC
Furry’s Buick GMC helped to provide a happy ending to a story that started around five years ago. That story is as follows:
Vietnam Veterans Chapter 996 started collecting pictures of those New Mexican soldiers killed in Vietnam. The last picture was found in October 2013. With that, New Mexico became the first state to provide the Vietnam Memorial Wall Museum Education Center (to be built) 398 photos of everyone from New Mexico killed in the war.
As an acknowledgement of this great feat, Santa Fe was awarded the traveling “Wall That Heals” exhibited at the City’s Fort Marcy Ball Park recently on March 19 – 24, 2014.
“The Wall That Heals” exhibition features a ½ scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans memorial in Washington, D.C. The replica is complete with the 58,249 names of those killed or missing in action from the conflict. The names are listed alphabetically by day of casualty.
Brad and Julia Furry (Furry’s Buick GMC) stepped up to the plate again to provide the core monies necessary to publish a 12 page insert commemorating all 398 New Mexican soldiers who died in Vietnam as well as events during the “Wall” stay in Santa Fe.
“It is gratifying to know that there are people like Brad and Julia who don’t hesitate to commit to this once in a life-time event for all of New Mexico” says Arturo Canaras, “The Wall That Heals” event chairman.
“The Wall That Heals” was a great success and offered many special events throughout the 4 day period. Visit www.santafenewmexican.com/news/veterans.