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The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2 ) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...
The Moving Wall at Mt. Trashmore Park in Virginia The Moving Wall at Grenada, Mississippi; May 1999 The Moving Wall is a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was devised by John Devitt after he attended the 1982 annual commemoration ceremonies celebrated in Washington for Vietnam veterans.
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.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), is the non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, a former Army Infantry in Vietnam. Others veterans joined including, Jack Wheeler, and several other graduates of West Point to finance the construction of a memorial to those Americans who served or died during the ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3984 will display the America’s Freedom Tribute’s Traveling Vietnam Wall and Cost of Freedom Tribute Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8, at the post’s 201 ...
The Traveling Vietnam Wall is in Ashland at the county airport for Veterans Appreciation Day. What to know about 'The wall that heals.'
Since its installation, the memorial has been the site of annual gatherings to mark its anniversary. Around the time of the 20th anniversary in 2013, Evans and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund wanted an underground education center that would cover not just the women's memorial, but the Three Soldiers and the Wall as well. [14]
Situated at Exit 171 of U.S 84/285, the memorial wall stands 8 feet tall at its highest and is 360 feet in length, wrapping around portions of the parking lot. Engraved in the wall are the names ...