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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Parks Directory of the United States / US National Parks / National Memorials
Address:c/o National Capitol Park - Central
900 Ohio Drive SW
Washington, DC 20024

Phone:202-426-6841
Fax:202-426-1844
Web: www.thewall-usa.com
Size: 2 acres.
Established: Authorized on July 1, 1980; dedicated on November 13, 1982. Vietnam Women's Memorial dedicated on November 11, 1993.
Location:Near the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of Constitution Gardens in Washington, DC.
Facilities:Rest rooms (é).
Activities:Walking tours, interpretive programs.
Special Features:The polished black granite wall is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 persons who gave their lives or remain missing in the Vietnam War (1964-1973). The memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin. The entrance plaza includes a flagstaff and bronze statue of three Vietnam servicemen sculpted by Frederick Hart. The Vietnam Women's Memorial features a multifigure bronze statue designed by Glenna Goodacre.

See other parks in District of Columbia.
Parks Directory of the United States, 5th Edition. © 2007 by Omnigraphics, Inc.
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The speakers forum is in conjunction with The Wall That Heals, a 375-foot traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
* THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL, Washington, DC This iconic memorial occupies two acres near the National Mall and is comprised of three separate structures: the Memorial Wall, completed in 1982; the Three Soldiers bronze statue competed two years later; and the Vietnam Women's Memorial, dedicated in 1993, depicting a nurse holding a wounded soldier, a woman looking up to the sky, and another on her knees with a helmet in her hands.
Other noted speakers include Jim Knotts, president and CEO of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Patricia Trap, acting superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks, and Vietnam veterans Allen Hoe, civilian aide to the secretary of the army, and Colonel A.
Catesby Leigh is right that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial deserves an important place on the National Mall, not least because of what Angelo Codevilla sketches ("On the Natural Law of War and Peace") and Mackubin Thomas Owens clarifies in the same issue.
Who: Hosted by the Emerald Empire Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America and open to the public What: The Moving Wall, a mobile half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial When: Noon to 11 p.m.
From her 1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., to her "Wave Field" series, to her 2010 Ellen S.
In the 1980s the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington generated controversy.
These include the impressive and internationally recognised Washington Monument - the world's tallest stone structure and tallest obelisk, standing more than 554 feet high - as well as the National World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and Korean War Veterans Memorial.
Judge of Iowa, who died the day before Saigon fell, according to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
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