The Vietnam War Memorial is located in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. There is a traveling version of the wall, however, that traverses the US allowing visitors to experience the wall without visiting the capital.
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Located between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., the dramatic and somber Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in November 1982. The privately financed monument was officially accepted by Pres. Ronald Reagan on Nov. 11, 1984, when he signed a document transferring the memorial to the U.S. Park Service. The V-shaped memorial consists of two 250-ft walls of polished black granite sloping to the ground from an apex of 10 feet. The walls are inscribed with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War. Privately funded through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund headed by Jan Scruggs, the memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin, a Yale architecture student whose design was chosen over 1,421 others submitted in the public competition. To ease a controversy aroused by the nontraditional appearance of the memorial, a sculpture of three servicemen and a flag were placed off to the side.
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See website: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
Vietnam War
November 13th, 1982 (Actually, the whole Veterans' Day weekend was a celebration of Vietnam Vets in Washington D.C., culminating with the Memorial Dedication)
1,072 servicemen from Minnesota died in the Vietnam War.
There are three primary traveling wall operations. One is maintained by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, headed by Jan Scruggs - the originator of the Vietnam Memorial. It is called "The Wall That Heals," and is based in Washington, D.C. "The Moving Wall" is operated by Vietnam Combat Veterans, Limited out of White Pine, Michigan. "The Traveling Memorial Wall" is based in Brevard County, Florida in an organization of the same name.