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The Virtual Wall is an online Vietnam War memorial. The website opened on March 23, 1997 and is run by the not-for-profit organization, www.VirtualWall.org Ltd. The Virtual Wall has a separate memorial page for each casualty remembered. Each memorial page may contain one or more photographs, remembrances, graphics of military unit patches and ...
Vietnam War Memorial, in Houston Texas [5] Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Park, Museum of Flight, Seattle; Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial, Portland, Oregon [6] The Vietnam Wall of Southwest Florida, in Punta Gorda, FL [7] Vietnam War Memorial (Milwaukie, Oregon) The Vietnam War Memorial, in Westminster, CA [8] Vietnam Veterans Replica Wall ...
Located in Layton, Utah, the Layton Vietnam Memorial Wall at 437 N Wasatch Dr, 84041, contains the names of all 58,000 Americans who died in the war. According to Utah Vietnam Veterans of America, the wall is 80 percent of the original size of the memorial in Washington, D.C., and it is the only replica of its size west of the Mississippi.
Riley Leroy Pitts (October 15, 1937 – October 31, 1967) was a United States Army captain and the first African-American officer to receive the Medal of Honor. [1] The medal was presented posthumously by President Lyndon B. Johnson on December 10, 1968 for actions in Ap Dong, Republic of Vietnam .
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 ...
In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred.
The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall exhibit held its opening ceremony Wednesday morning at the Ussery-Roan Texas State Veterans Home in Amarillo with special guests to commemorate the special event.
Jul. 10—A years-long effort by New Mexico veterans to build a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Angel Fire is close to becoming a reality. Advocates have raised enough funding for ...