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~ The Times-Reporter./-O Mon., May 26,1916DOVER-NEW PHILADELPHIA, O.Vietnam veterans want museum at Mount VernonMOUNT VERNON (AP) — Two Vietnam War veterans will ask officials of a national Vietnam veterans organization to support their plan to solicit corporate contributions to finance amuseum in Knox County to commemorate their war.Albert Neipling and Richard Carey say they will present their proposal to build a museum that would cost $15 million to $20 million to officials of the Veterans of the Vietnam War at its headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., next month.“We want our kids and future children to see this was the most controversial war in which the United States was ever involved,” said Neipling, regional commander of the Veterans of the Vietnam War. Carey is a regional vice commander in the organization.Neipling said the museum would show what conditions were like in Vietnam, and show riots and demonstrations which tookplace at home.“We want to show exactly what the Vietnam veteran went through while he was over there, how he was treated when he came back,” Niepling said. “W’e’ll have video films, a lifelike jungle scene. W’e’ll have a replica of the My Laimassacre, a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital field unit. We want everything shown.”The museum and outdoor display of combat aircraft and vehicles used in the war would require about 100 acres of land, he said.Neipling, 35, spent 2Vi of his 10 years in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. Carey, 40, served with the Marines in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, during the Tet offensive.Carey said they want to build the museum in Knox County because it is within 450 miles of 80 percent of the population of thecontinental United States.Not everyone in Knox County has supported the idea, Neipling said, because their plans are in the early stages and not clearly understood. Both men said the museum would provide economic benefits for the town by attracting tourists. They also said they would like to see the museum house theirorganization’s national headquarters.The board of directors of the Mount Vernon-Knox County Chamber of Commerce has endorsed the idea and is helping Neipling and Carey gather information for their presentation at the June meeting.
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Dover Times Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Mon, May 26, 1986
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