Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos Memorial

The naming here is deliberate: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The war Americans call "Vietnam" spilled across all three countries, and the men who fought and died in the bombing of Cambodia and Laos were long left out of the official story. This memorial restores them to it, honoring Utahns who served across that whole theater. It belongs to the harder, later wave of Vietnam remembrance — the kind that came once the country was willing to look squarely at a war it had spent years trying not to think about.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Salt Lake City — 0.4 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Temple Square — 0.5 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Ensign Peak — 0.9 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley
• Liberty Park — 2.4 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882

More markers nearby

• Civil War Monument — steps away
• Utah and the Civil War (4) Markers — steps away
• Ensign Peak - Capitol — steps away
• The Constitution Revered — steps away