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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 Memorial's walls point to the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial, thus bringing the Memorial into the historical context of our country. The names are inscribed in the chronological order of their dates of casualty, showing the war as a series of individual human sacrifices and giving each name a special place in history.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: District of Columbia: November 13, 1982: 2.18 acres (0.0088 km 2) Almost three million Americans were deployed to Vietnam during the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975 as part of a campaign to stop communism in the region. Reflective black granite walls, sunken below ground level, bear the names of 58,320 servicemembers ...
HUBBARDSTON - A new memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War was officially unveiled to the public during the town's Memorial Day observances. The names of more than 200 men and women who served ...
Vietnam Memorial, Austin, Texas; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington, D.C. Vietnam Women's Memorial, adjacent; Vietnam Memorial of Los Angeles County, Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA. Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall-USA), an online memorial; Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona [4]
The granite columns, to bear the names of about 790 service members with Oregon ties who died in Vietnam, will form an L-shape that mirrors the L-shaped wall of the World War II Memorial.
Their efforts were inspired by a World War II veteran who fears "history will forget us." Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The memorial pays tribute to the 80,000 Philadelphia Vietnam Era Veterans who served our country in our nation's longest war. By honoring these veterans the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial separates the warrior from the war, focuses on the valor and sacrifice of those patriots, and gives each of them a place in history.