Transcription: For many visitors, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is their primary goal in the capital city. The polished marble wall of the memorial forms a long double-ended wedge. The names of those killed or missing are listed chronologically by date of casualty. They start at one end with the first few, they increase to many thousands near the center, and they taper off toward the bitter end. Nearby are realistic life-size statues of three servicemen in Vietnam. They appear to keep an eternal watch over the memory of their comrades lost in that far-off conflict. Every day, hundreds of relatives, friends a ...
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