WEST HAVEN, Oct. 22, 2025 — (Pictured): Mayor Dorinda Borer, second from left, joins members of West Haven Vietnam Veterans Inc. at a newly installed section of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Veterans Walk of Honor in Bradley Point Park on Wednesday, Oct. 22.
With Borer are, from left, mayor’s office volunteer Beth Sabo, Barry Grasso, President Dave Ricci, Mark Levine, Treasurer Steve Carney, Kevin Sullivan, Howie Thomas and Howie Chernikoff.
In June 2023, the West Haven Vietnam Memorial Inc. Committee launched a campaign to recognize additional current and former city residents who served in-country during the Vietnam War by inscribing their names on two new granite panels.
The absolute black granite panels, which bookend the memorial, were installed by project coordinator Milestone Construction Services LLC of New Haven, which also prepared the site. The panels were procured by Connecticut Stone of Milford, and the inscriptions were crafted by the memorial’s original engraver, Shelley Bros. Monuments of Guilford.
Borer said the city will dedicate the panels during a Veterans Day tribute at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial features a black granite wall inscribed with the names of those from West Haven who served or gave their lives in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975, along with three white flagpoles draped with the American, Connecticut and prisoner-of-war flags.
The memorial, dedicated Nov. 12, 2003, also includes a black granite map of the four battle districts of Vietnam bearing the inscription “All Gave Some, Some Gave All,” as well as five bronze insignia markers atop black granite posts representing each branch of the U.S. armed forces.
For more information on West Haven Vietnam Veterans, visit https://westhavenvietnamveterans.org/.
(City Photo/Michael P. Walsh)
