LOS ANGELES – An Orange County Public Works crew has demolished a Vietnam War memorial that was left unfinished in Mile Square Regional Park in Fountain Valley.
In 2023, then-Supervisor Andrew Do allocated $1 million in First District discretionary funds to the nonprofit Viet America Society for the design and construction of the memorial. The memorial wall was built in January 2024, but “granite cladding and other cosmetic features” were never finished, county spokesperson Molly Nichelson said.
The memorial was sitting unfinished when the county sued Viet America Society in August 2024 for breach of contract and fraud for not completing the tribute or delivering on meals for the elderly and disabled people that the county had given millions in COVID relief money for when the FBI raided the homes of Do and the nonprofit’s leaders…