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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 ...
Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Papillion, Nebraska. Augusta-CSRA Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, Augusta, Georgia [2] Charlestown Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Boston. Inland Northwest Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Riverfront Park, Spokane. Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Frankfort, Kentucky. National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court ...
Three Soldiers (also titled Three Servicemen) is a bronze statue by Frederick Hart. 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.
program: "This memorial is dedicated to veterans from all branches of the armed services who served in Vietnam. It replaces the former Vietnam Memorial located on Wacker Drive that was dedicated on November 11, 1982. The inscribed stones from that memorial have been incorporated into the plaza of this memorial." [1]
Jan Scruggs. Jan Craig Scruggs (born March 11, 1950) is a United States Army veteran who served in the Vietnam War, and later founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Scruggs was the President of the foundation until 2015, when he retired.
The Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a memorial sculpture located in Frankfort, Kentucky, overlooking the state capital, and containing the names of 1,108 Kentuckians killed in the Vietnam War. The memorial is in the form of a sundial with the names placed so that the tip of the gnomon 's shadow touches each man's name on the date of his ...
In May 1991, three statues to be included in the memorial were unveiled in Trenton; they were sculpted by Thomas Jay Warren. Construction on the memorial began on November 19, 1991. [5] The memorial was dedicated on May 7, 1995. [2] [4] [7] The May 7, 1995 date was chosen because it was the 20th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. [5]
8,500 ft (2,600 m) Established. 2005. Governing body. New Mexico Department of Veterans Services. Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national memorial established in honor of Vietnam War veterans, near United States Highway 64 in Angel Fire, New Mexico. Until 2017, it was a New Mexico state park, [1] and it is now under the Department of Veteran ...