Oct. 18—TESUQUE — Several times, Avelino Calabaza has reached out his hand and touched the black granite monument in Washington, D.C., devoted to the memory of American soldiers whose died in Vietnam.
Black panels forming a traveling memorial wall, similar to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial but smaller in scale, have been installed in the Tesuque Casino parking lot north of Santa Fe. On Thursday, as the wind rose up sharply, Calabaza returned to his memories of Vietnam, its landscape.
“And we walk on it,” he said. “And the feeling of that, it’s a memory.”…