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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 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 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 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 wall will arrive in Meridian on July 21 and will be on display at the East Mississippi Veterans Memorial Park next to Key Field. It will stay on display until July 23. Mike Couch, president of ...
In 1993, the Vietnam Women's Memorial by sculptor Glenna Goodacre was added to the Memorial site to represent the heroic work of women who served in the Vietnam War. In 2000, Congress authorized the placement on the Memorial site of a plaque honoring post-war casualties of Vietnam whose names are not eligible for inscription on The Wall.
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 ...