Larce Padgett and his wife, Becky, pay respects to soldiers who Padgett served with during the Vietnam War. “I lost my leg in Vietnam,” Padgett said. “You know it’s funny, when you’re 18, 19, you feel like nothing can hurt you. We took 50,000 to 55,000 people off our rolls, and for what?”

The traveling Vietnam Veterans Memorial, also known as “The Wall That Heals,” is a half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., that stretches 250 feet in length and 6 feet at its apex.

The replica, which contains 58,260 names, is at St. Mathew’s Church in Rogers and will be there through Sunday when there will be a candlelight closing ceremony at 6 p.m. The wall will then make its final trip of the year to Decatur. Also on display with the wall is the traveling Liberty Bell, cast in 1976.