Local Baltimore County Public Library Branch Is Site of Two-Week Exhibit

June 22, 2015

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Contact: Mary Miles [email protected] Office: 410-568-8821

Local Baltimore County Public Library branch is site of two-week exhibit saluting Maryland’s Vietnam veterans Traveling display goes statewide to set stage for MPT documentary and event

OWINGS MILLS -- The Baltimore County Public Library’s Owings Mills Branch is the site of a June 29 - July 13 visit by the MPT Salutes Vietnam Veterans Traveling Exhibit as it makes its way around Maryland through next June to celebrate the military service of Marylanders during the Vietnam War. The public is invited to see the display at this or future venues.

The exhibit features both current-day and wartime images of 16 men and women along with their recollections of incidents from the war. Also included are artifacts from the war and opportunities for display visitors to craft messages to veterans.

The Baltimore County Public Library Owings Mills Branch is open Monday through Thursday from 9 am until 9 pm and on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 am until 5:30 pm. The branch is also open Sundays from 1 pm until 5 pm. The branch is located at the County Campus Metro Centre at Owings Mills at 10302 Grand Central Avenue. MPT Salutes Vietnam Veterans is a multi-year project, the largest in the station’s history, to recognize and thank those who served in the military during the Vietnam era. The project unfolds in 2016 with the broadcast premiere of a three-hour documentary called Maryland Vietnam War Stories and with a two-day public event called LZ Pimlico at the Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore.

The documentary film will feature interviews with nearly 100 men and women and will air over three nights in late May next year. The LZ Pimlico event will include such features as a Huey helicopter flyover; the concluding moments of a day-long, statewide motorcycle honor ride made principally by Vietnam veterans and those of more recent wars; the display of The Moving Wall™, the traveling half-size replica of D.C.’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial; on-site displays of Vietnam-era military vehicles; a mobile Army surgical hospital (MASH) unit; entertainment from the Vietnam years; and solemn ceremonies to salute those Marylanders who were killed or missing in combat.

Information on the MPT Vietnam project and the travel exhibit schedule can be found at mpt.org/vietnam. Interested persons may also call 410-581-4182 for information or to be added to the project’s mailing list. The MPT Salutes Vietnam Veterans Traveling Exhibit is made possible in part by the SunTrust Foundation.