Traveling memorial to visit Augusta May 29-30

AUGUSTA — The GoldStars Tribute Wall is scheduled to be open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday, May 29, and from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday, May 30, at the Augusta Elks Lodge, 397 Civic Center Drive.

An opening ceremony is set for 10 a.m. May 29.

Food will be provided at no cost around lunch time on both days.

The wall is a traveling memorial to honor service members who have fallen while serving in the United States military since the beginning of the Gulf War — Iraq and Afghanistan.

This memorial project will continue to add names to the memorial through to the present, according to a news release from the Tribute to America’s Fallen Foundation in Hoschton, Georgia.

For more information about the traveling memorial, visit tributewall.org.

For questions about the event, call James Orr, the head of the committee bringing the tribute wall to Maine, at 207-480-0438.