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An Army caisson carried the Vietnam Unknown from the Capitol to the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, May 28, 1984. President Reagan presided over the funeral, presented the Medal of Honor to the Vietnam Unknown, and acted as next of kin by accepting the interment flag at the end of the ceremony.
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 ...
This article is a list of US MIAs of the Vietnam War in the period 1961–1965. In 1973, the United States listed 2,646 Americans as unaccounted for from the entire Vietnam War. By October 2022, 1,582 Americans remained unaccounted for, of which 1,004 were classified as further pursuit, 488 as non-recoverable and 90 as deferred. [1]
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 ...
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. The Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos Veterans Memorial is installed outside the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City, in the U.S. state of Utah. Dedicated on October 14, 1989, the memorial features a bronze statue of a soldier by Clyde Ross Morgan and a circular wall by Mark Davenport. [1]
The Vietnam War body count controversy centers on the counting of enemy dead by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War (1955–1975). There are issues around killing and counting unarmed civilians ( non-combatants) as enemy combatants, as well as inflating the number of actual enemy who were killed in action (KIA).
The Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial is designed to honor those who served in all branches of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. The memorial pays tribute to the 80,000 Philadelphia Vietnam Era Veterans who served our country in our nation's longest war. By honoring these veterans the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans ...
features a rectangular fountain basin and stone wall inscribed with the names of those who died during the Vietnam War. According to the Smithsonian Institution, which surveyed the monument as part of its "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program: "This memorial is dedicated to veterans from all branches of the armed services who served in Vietnam.