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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 ...
The names on the Wall, originally numbering 57,939 when it was dedicated in 1982, are listed in the chronological order of the dates of casualty. [9] Additional names have been added throughout the years since: as of May 2018 there are 58,320 names. The number of names on the wall differs from other counts of U.S. Vietnam War deaths.
The CD contains the names of the 58,196 American soldiers who died or were missing in action in the Vietnam War. [3] It is narrated by Adrian Cronauer , the Armed Forces Radio disc jockey Robin Williams portrayed in the film Good Morning, Vietnam .
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 ...
A three-quarters scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is coming to Spartanburg Nov. 9-12. It is called the 'Wall that Heals.' What to know.
In March 2002, the Virtual Vietnam Archive was launched with a five hundred thousand dollar federal grant to digitize the Vietnam Archive's collection of documents, audio, and images. [34] Types of material include documents, photographs, slides, negatives, oral histories, artifacts, moving images, sound recordings, maps, and collection finding ...
Engraved in the wall are the names of soldiers who died fighting overseas. Near the highway, an American flag waves, above messages of valor. Over 58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War.
Fitzgibbon's name was added to the Vietnam Memorial Wall on May 31, 1999, and Today Show host Katie Couric interviewed members of his family for the occasion. [8] The DoD had previously moved the date of the start of the Vietnam War to include the death of Captain Cramer, who was killed at Nha Trang in a training accident on October 21, 1957. [10]