Aiken County veterans walk to State House in push to get Vietnam War monument moved
Veterans are walking 53 miles to the State House after the SC Senate blocked a house approved-bill move to an old Vietnam War monument. Author: Devin Johnson Updated: 7:44 PM EDT April 7, 2021
NEW HOLLAND, S.C. If we had driven up there, nobody would ve known about it, said Aiken County Veterans Council Chairman Lowell Koppert.
Veterans are walking from Aiken County to the State House to push lawmakers to move an old Vietnam War monument. The state has failed to maintain it for two decades in the proper manner, explained Koppert. When we asked to move it, all of a sudden, it becomes this piece of gold for all of these legislators who don t even live in Aiken County; they don t want to move it because they respect it so much. If you respect it so much, why aren t you maintaining it?