Construction has wrapped on a new memorial in Piedmont Park honoring 240 Atlanta and Fulton County residents who were killed during the Vietnam War.
The Sons of Atlanta Vietnam War Monument and Memorial Experience sits near the park's northernmost Piedmont Avenue entrance, just west of the Active Oval. The installation includes a tribute sculpture, a commemorative plaza, and a memorial wall listing the names of the fallen.
The project marks the City of Atlanta's first dedicated Vietnam War memorial bearing the city seal. While the veterans' names appear on the Georgia State Memorial in downtown Atlanta and on the National Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., no city-level memorial existed until now.
The monument required years of fundraising and coordination between the Sons of Atlanta organization, city officials, and the Piedmont Park Conservancy. The concrete plaza connects parkgoers to the memorial from the surrounding path network.
Piedmont Park's latest addition joins a collection of monuments and landmarks in the 200-acre green space, but this one fills a gap that local veterans and their families had long identified. The memorial is open to visitors daily.
