Today in History: Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in 1982
On November 13, 1982, the long-awaited Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated following a public march featuring thousands of veterans. The V-shaped granite wall is inscribed with the names of each of the 58,272 Americans who died during the Vietnam War, and was designed by Maya Lin, a Yale University architecture student.
Following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund was organized to find … Read more »