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  2. Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Wikipedia

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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. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing ...

  3. Nike sweatshops - Wikipedia

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    A study by the Nike-founded Global Alliance for Workers and Communities found that 70% of Nike factory workers in Thailand rated their supervisors as good, and 72% thought their income was fair. In Vietnam, most workers "thought the factory was a 'good place to work' and planned to continue at least three years," and 85% of those polled felt ...

  4. List of Nike missile sites - Wikipedia

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    After the phase-out of the Nike Ajax system, sites B-05, B-36, and B-73 remained supplied with Hercules missiles. Army Air-Defense Command Post (AADCP) B-21DC established at Fort Heath, MA in 1960 for Nike missile command-and-control functions. The site was an AN/FSG-l Missile-Master Radar Direction Center.

  5. 'Last line of defense': Cold War reheats at Nike missile ...

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    Memorial Day: Remember this Freehold 21-year-old helicopter pilot who vanished in Vietnam “We’ve had this for six years,” said Richard “Dusty” Griffith, a Little Silver resident and ...

  6. Vietnam Veteran Medal Throwing Protest - Wikipedia

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    Vietnam Veteran Throwing Medal at the U.S. Capital. On April 23, 1971 Vietnam Veterans Against the War staged what was arguably "one of the most dramatic and influential events of the antiwar movement" as hundreds of Vietnam veterans, dressed in combat fatigues and well worn uniforms, stepped up, and angrily, one after another for three straight hours, hurled their military medals, ribbons ...

  7. Nike, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Nike, Inc. [note 1] (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States. [5] It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. [6] [7]

  8. Vietnam Women's Memorial - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnam Women's Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the Vietnam War. It depicts three uniformed women with a wounded male soldier to symbolize the support and caregiving roles that women played in the war as nurses and other specialists. It is part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and ...

  9. Footnote Digitizes the Vietnam War Memorial | TechCrunch

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    Footnote has taken the initiative to digitize all 58,000 names inscribed into the Vietnam War Memorial. ... a National Geographic photographer to take over 2,000 high quality photos of the wall. ...