Vietnam Veterans Memorial slated for digital upgrade
They are names on a wall of polished black granite, some 58,000 of them.
When it opened in 1982, visitors to the wall saw their own reflections intertwined with the engraved names of American service members who died in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. They saw a linkage of their lives with the deaths of the fallen and the fractured state of the nation depicted in one long artistic rendering. Read on...