WASHINGTON — The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a sober tribute of black granite tucked neatly into the landscape of Washington’s National Mall, turns 20 years old Monday.
The V-shaped wall, inscribed with the names of 58,229 veterans who died or went missing between 1959 and 1975 in one of the nation’s most controversial military engagements, has long been a site of remembrance and healing for veterans and their families.
In a four-day ceremony that began Thursday, all of the names were read aloud by a series of volunteers, concluding Sunday, the day before Veterans Day. It was only the third time all of the names have been read aloud since the monument’s creation.
— Shira Kantor, Chicago
Tribune (KRT)
