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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 ...
Unveiled on Veterans Day, November 11, 1984, [1] on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., it is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial [2] commemorating the Vietnam War. [3] It was the first representation of an African American on the National Mall. [4]
An interpretive text to the left of the panel tells part of the memorial's story: "Dedicated on Nov. 13, 1983, the V-shaped monument lists more than 58,000 names of Americans who were killed or ...
The Wall at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which is just north of the Vietnam Women's Memorial. The memorial is sited near the Wall and the Three Soldiers statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The three groupings of the memorial are in Constitution Gardens, a park on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Black panels forming a traveling memorial wall, similar to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial but smaller in scale, have been installed in the Tesuque Casino parking lot north of Santa Fe.
Dan King, an Oneida Nation member and Vietnam War veteran, holds photos of his grandfather during World War I, his father during World War II and himself during his service.
March 29 was chosen as National Vietnam War Veterans Day because on March 29, 1973, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) was disbanded and the last U.S. combat troops departed the Republic of Vietnam. The last unit was elements of MACV's Infantry Security Force (Special Guard), actually special couriers. [citation needed]
Standing eight feet tall at its highest point and 360 feet long, the wall is a replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., that travels the country, honoring those who gave the ...