Cupertino Brings Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall To Town For Veterans Day

CBS Bay Area

November 13, 2026

While other San Francisco Bay Area communities commemorated Veterans Day with patriotic music and speeches, the city of Cupertino had a more somber, but perhaps more meaningful, experience with the display of a scale model of the Vietnam War Memorial Wall.

On display was a replica scaled to 80% of Washington, D.C.'s Vietnam War Memorial Wall, a powerful symbol of the hard-earned, painful lessons learned in that conflict.

"We learned that military power and national will are finite resources, never to be expended lightly," keynote speaker Maj. General Stephen Hager told the crowd. "Our technological superiority is meaningless without the trust of the American public."

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