FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — The construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Fall River's Bicentennial Park is scheduled to start in mid-May and will likely be ready before a targeted Veterans Day deadline.

Construction is scheduled to begin the second week in May and just in time for state funding before the 2020 fiscal year ends June 3, Memorial Wall Committee chairman Joseph Marshall told The Herald News.

“I would say it could be completed by the end of summer,” Marshall said.

The official groundbreaking last July drew state officials and Gold Star families of soldiers who died in the Vietnam War.

The $1.4 million project will be the region’s only permanent replica of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The 360-foot-long memorial engraved with the names of those who died in the war is an 80% scale replica of the wall in the nation’s capital.