When Steven Stenersen, coordinator for the Veterans Resource Center at Santiago Canyon College, got word that the Wall that Heals was coming to the city of Orange, he saw it as an opportunity for SCC’s student veterans to be of service to their fallen brothers and sisters and the veteran community as a whole.

The Wall that Heals, which was on display Oct. 2-5 in Grijalva Park in Orange, is a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. that bears the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. service members who were killed or lost during the Vietnam War.

A group of nearly a dozen members of the SCC chapter of Student Veterans of America helped to construct the traveling exhibit, which consists of 140 numbered panels, support structures, sliding panels and foundations...READ MORE