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One wall points to the Washington Monument, the other to the Lincoln Memorial, meeting at an angle of 125° 12′. [8] Each wall has 72 panels, 70 listing names (numbered 1E through 70E and 70W through 1W), and two very small blank panels at the extremities. [9] A pathway for visitors extends along the base of the Wall.
The wall lists the names of 36,634 Americans, [16] along with 7,174 South Koreans who died under U.S. command [17] while serving in the Korean Augmentation To the United States Army (KATUSA). [15] The Wall cost $22 million to design and construct, funded mostly by the South Korean government, Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs. [11]
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]
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.
The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
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.