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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.[1]

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  1. 121 relations: African Americans, America's Favorite Architecture, American Institute of Architects, Andrews Air Force Base, Angel Fire, New Mexico, Annie Ruth Graham, Architecture of Washington, D.C., Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Atlanta, Augusta, Georgia, Augusta-CSRA Vietnam War Veterans Memorial, Bangalore, Barre (town), Vermont, Biên Hòa, Billboard (magazine), Billboard charts, Black granite, Blind Man's Zoo, Bronze, Bruce Springsteen, C-SPAN, Carol Ann Drazba, Charles Liteky, Chester M. Ovnand, Civil War (song), Constitution Gardens, Dale R. Buis, Desertion, Design competition, Duluth, Minnesota, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, European Americans, Fall of Saigon, Fast Folk, Frederick Hart (sculptor), Gabbro, Glenna Goodacre, Guns N' Roses, Hermann Zapf, High Hopes (album), Irvine, California, James G. Watt, Jan Scruggs, Jim Webb, John P. Wheeler III, Khmer Rouge, Land art, Layton, Utah, Lincoln Memorial, ... Expand index (71 more) »

  2. Artworks in the collection of the National Park Service
  3. Buildings and structures completed in 1982
  4. National Mall and Memorial Parks
  5. Vietnam War monuments and memorials in the United States

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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America's Favorite Architecture

"America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews Air Force Base (Andrews AFB, AAFB) is the airfield portion of Joint Base Andrews, which is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Angel Fire, New Mexico

Angel Fire is a village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States.

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Annie Ruth Graham

Annie Ruth Graham (November 7, 1916 – August 14, 1968) was a U.S. Army officer who was the highest-ranked American servicewoman to die during the Vietnam War.

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Architecture of Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, has a unique and diverse architectural history.

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Army of the Republic of Vietnam

The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN;; Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Augusta, Georgia

Augusta is a consolidated city-county on the central eastern border of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Augusta-CSRA Vietnam War Veterans Memorial

The Augusta-Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) Vietnam War Veterans Memorial is a granite and bronze monument placed in Augusta, Georgia, March 29, 2019, to honor the CSRA's 169 Vietnam War dead, three Ex-Prisoners of War (Vietnam), and one former Missing in Action (MIA) as well as the region's 15,000 surviving Vietnam War Veterans.

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Barre (town), Vermont

Barre is a town in Washington County, Vermont, United States.

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Biên Hòa

Biên Hòa (Northern accent:, Southern accent) is the capital city of Đồng Nai Province, Vietnam and part of the Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area and located to the northeast of Ho Chi Minh City, to which Biên Hòa is linked by Vietnam Highway 1.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs and albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Black granite

In the construction industry, black rocks that share the hardness and strength of granitic rocks are known as black granite.

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Blind Man's Zoo

Blind Man's Zoo is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs.

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Bronze

Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12–12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (including aluminium, manganese, nickel, or zinc) and sometimes non-metals, such as phosphorus, or metalloids, such as arsenic or silicon.

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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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C-SPAN

Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN) is an American cable and satellite television network, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service.

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Carol Ann Drazba

Carol Ann Elizabeth Drazba (December 11, 1943 – February 18, 1966) was one of the first two American nurses killed in the Vietnam War.

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Charles Liteky

Charles James "Charlie" Liteky (February 14, 1931 – January 20, 2017), formerly known as Angelo Liteky, was an American peace activist who served as a United States Army chaplain in the Vietnam War and was awarded the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor.

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Chester M. Ovnand

Master Sergeant Chester Melvin Ovnand (also known with surname Ovnard) (September 8, 1914 – July 8, 1959) was the first American casualty of the Vietnam War killed at the hands of the Viet Cong.

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Civil War (song)

"Civil War" is a song by American rock band Guns N' Roses that originally appeared on the 1990 compilation Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal and later on the band's 1991 album Use Your Illusion II.

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Constitution Gardens

Constitution Gardens is a park area in Washington, D.C., United States, located within the boundaries of the National Mall. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Constitution Gardens are national Mall and national Mall and Memorial Parks.

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Dale R. Buis

Dale Richard Buis (August 29, 1921 – July 8, 1959) was a United States Army officer.

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Desertion

Desertion is the abandonment of a military duty or post without permission (a pass, liberty or leave) and is done with the intention of not returning.

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Design competition

A design competition or design contest is a competition in which an entity solicits design proposals from the public for a specified purpose.

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Duluth, Minnesota

Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of St. Louis County.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed Ike, was an American military officer and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

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Elizabethtown, Kentucky

Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Hardin County, Kentucky, United States.

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European Americans

European Americans are Americans of European ancestry.

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Fall of Saigon

The fall of Saigon was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.

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Fast Folk

Fast Folk Musical Magazine (originally known as The CooP) was a combination magazine and record album published from February 1982 to 1997.

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Frederick Hart (sculptor)

Frederick Elliott Hart (November 3, 1943 – August 13, 1999) was an American sculptor.

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Gabbro

Gabbro is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.

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Glenna Goodacre

Glenna Maxey Goodacre (August 28, 1939 – April 13, 2020) was an American sculptor, best known for having designed the obverse of the Sacagawea dollar that entered circulation in the US in 2000, and the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in March 1985 when local bands Hollywood Rose and L.A. Guns merged.

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Hermann Zapf

Hermann Zapf (8 November 1918 – 4 June 2015) was a German type designer and calligrapher who lived in Darmstadt, Germany.

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High Hopes (album)

High Hopes is the eighteenth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, released on January 14, 2014, by Columbia Records.

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Irvine, California

Irvine is the largest city and a master-planned city in central Orange County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.

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James G. Watt

James Gaius Watt (January 31, 1938 – May 27, 2023) was an American lawyer, lobbyist, and civil servant who served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior in the Ronald Reagan administration from 1981 to 1983.

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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.

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Jim Webb

James Henry Webb Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is an American politician and author.

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John P. Wheeler III

John Parsons Wheeler III (December 14, 1944 –), known as Jack Wheeler, was an American veteran, businessman, and activist, who held multiple positions in the U.S. government for five decades and helped create the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Khmer Rouge

The Khmer Rouge (ខ្មែរក្រហម) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979.

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Land art

Land art, variously known as Earth art, environmental art, and Earthworks, is an art movement that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s, largely associated with Great Britain and the United StatesArt in the modern era: A guide to styles, schools, & movements.

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Layton, Utah

Layton (/ˈleɪʔɪn/) is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States.

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Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Lincoln Memorial are national Mall and national Memorials of the United States.

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List of national memorials of the United States

National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and List of national memorials of the United States are national Memorials of the United States.

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List of public art in Washington, D.C., Ward 2

This is a list of public art in Ward 2 of Washington, D.C..

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List of Vietnam War monuments and memorials

This is a list of monuments and other memorials to the Vietnam War.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942October 27, 2013) was an American musician and songwriter.

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The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings were constructed in 1918 along Constitution Avenue (then known as B Street) on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall (Potomac Park) as the largest of a set of temporary war buildings on the National Mall.

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Maquette

A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture.

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Maya Lin

Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor.

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Mayaguez incident

The Mayaguez incident took place between Kampuchea (now Cambodia) and the United States from 12 to 15 May 1975, less than a month after the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital Phnom Penh ousting the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor (MOH) is the United States Armed Forces' highest military decoration and is awarded to recognize American soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardians, and coast guardsmen who have distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Memorial to the Revolutionary Martyrs

The War Memorial in Hanoi is located across the Ba Dinh Square, across the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and close to Hanoi Citadel.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Michael Jerling

Michael Jerling is an American acoustic folk singer-songwriter.

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Military Assistance Advisory Group

A Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) is a designation for a group of United States military advisors sent to other countries to assist in the training of conventional armed forces and facilitate military aid.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s.

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National Mall

The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and National Mall are national Mall and Memorial Parks.

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National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and National Museum of American History are national Mall.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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New York (album)

New York is the fifteenth solo studio album by American musician Lou Reed, released in January 1989 by Sire Records.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

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Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial

The Northwood Gratitude and Honor Memorial is a memorial in Irvine, California, to American troops who died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Optima

Optima is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Hermann Zapf and released by the D. Stempel AG foundry, Frankfurt, West Germany in 1958.

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Patriot Guard Riders

The Patriot Guard Riders (PGR) is an organization based in the United States whose members attend the funerals of members of the U.S. military and first responders at the invitation of a decedent's family.

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Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle.

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Perryville, Missouri

Perryville is a city in Perry County, Missouri, United States.

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Photographic emulsion

Photographic emulsion is a light-sensitive colloid used in film-based photography.

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Purple Heart

The Purple Heart (PH) is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those wounded or killed while serving, on or after 5 April 1917, with the U.S. military.

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Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr.

Technical Sergeant Richard Bernard Fitzgibbon Jr., USAF (June 21, 1920 – June 8, 1956) was the first American to die in the Vietnam War.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Ross Perot

Henry Ross Perot Sr. (June 27, 1930 – July 9, 2019) was an American business magnate, politician, and philanthropist.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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Sandblasting

Sandblasting, sometimes known as abrasive blasting, is the operation of forcibly propelling a stream of abrasive material against a surface under high pressure to smooth a rough surface, roughen a smooth surface, shape a surface or remove surface contaminants.

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Semi-trailer truck

A semi-trailer truck (also known by a wide variety of other terms - see below) is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

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Sharon Ann Lane

Sharon Ann Lane (July 7, 1943 – June 8, 1969) was a United States Army nurse and the only American servicewoman killed as a direct result of enemy fire in the Vietnam War.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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South Sioux City, Nebraska

South Sioux City is a city in Dakota County, Nebraska, United States.

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St. Louis

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State police

State police, provincial police or regional police are a type of sub-national territorial police force found in nations organized as federations, typically in North America, South Asia, and Oceania.

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Statue

A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone.

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Stoneham, Massachusetts

Stoneham is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, nine miles (14.5 km) north of downtown Boston.

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Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas.

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The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Slavic-American steelworkers whose lives are upended after fighting in the Vietnam War.

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The Education Center at The Wall

The Education Center at The Wall was a collaborative effort between the National Park Service and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF).

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The Moving Wall

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.

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The Statler Brothers

The Statler Brothers (sometimes simply referred to as The Statlers) were an American country music, gospel, and vocal group from Staunton, Virginia.

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The Tattered Dress

The Tattered Dress is a 1957 American CinemaScope film noir crime film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Jack Arnold.

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The Virtual Wall

The Virtual Wall is an on-line Vietnam War memorial.

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The Wall That Heals

The Wall That Heals is a 1997 documentary film about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial narrated by Louis Gossett Jr.

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Three Soldiers (statue)

Three Soldiers (also titled Three Servicemen) is a bronze statue by Frederick Hart. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Three Soldiers (statue) are Artworks in the collection of the National Park Service and national Mall.

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Tyler, Texas

Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, United States.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.

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United States Department of Defense

The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the U.S. government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Department of the Interior

The United States Department of the Interior (DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also referred to metonymically as West Point or simply as Army, is a United States service academy in West Point, New York.

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United States Secretary of the Interior

The United States secretary of the interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior.

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Vietnam Forces National Memorial

The Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial is on Anzac Parade, the principal ceremonial and memorial avenue in Canberra, the capital city of Australia.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial (New Mexico)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national memorial established in honor of Vietnam War veterans, near United States Highway 64 in Angel Fire, New Mexico. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Vietnam Veterans Memorial (New Mexico) are national Memorials of the United States and Vietnam War monuments and memorials in the United States.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc. (VVMF), is the non-profit organization established on April 27, 1979, by Jan Scruggs, a former Army Infantry in Vietnam.

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Vietnam Veterans of America

Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc. (VVA) is a national non-profit corporation founded in 1978 in the United States that is committed to serving the needs of all veterans.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vietnam War Song Project

The Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) is an archive and interpretive examination of over 6000 Vietnam War songs identified.

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Vietnam Women's Memorial

The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Vietnam Women's Memorial are Artworks in the collection of the National Park Service, national Mall and Vietnam War monuments and memorials in the United States.

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War on terror

The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.

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Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States, victorious commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783 in the American Revolutionary War, and the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Washington Monument are national Mall and Memorial Parks and national Memorials of the United States.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wildwood, New Jersey

Wildwood is a city in Cape May County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Winfield, Kansas

Winfield is a city and county seat of Cowley County, Kansas, United States.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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10,000 Maniacs

10,000 Maniacs is an American alternative rock band founded in 1981.

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2011 Virginia earthquake

On August 23, 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont region of the U.S. state of Virginia at 1:51:04 p.m. EDT.

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See also

Artworks in the collection of the National Park Service

Buildings and structures completed in 1982

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Vietnam War monuments and memorials in the United States

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Veterans_Memorial

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