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Your notification has been saved. There was a problem saving your notification. Manage followed notifications. Congress passed legislation to reserve three acres in the northwest corner of the National Mall for the monument. Items are gathered by park staff. Non-perishable items are archived in a storage facility. Tens of thousands of items have been left at the memorial since its opening.
Someone once left a motorcycle. Rangers from the National Park Service collect items every day. Except for unaltered US flags and perishable items, all artifacts are sent to a storage facility in Maryland. A virtual collection can be seen at www. The names are arranged chronologically by date of casualty. The first names appear at the center of the wall at the top of panel 1E.
Upon reaching the farthest east end of the memorial at panel 70E, the pattern continues from the far west end of the memorial at panel 70W, continuing back to the center at panel 1W.
In this manner, the memorial evokes a theme of closure or completion; the first are with the last. Vietnam Veterans Memorial District of Columbia. Info Alerts Maps Calendar Reserve. Alerts In Effect Dismiss. Dismiss View all alerts. Frequently Asked Questions. Vietnam Veterans Memorial How many names are on the wall?
Items are gathered by park staff. Executive Order No. DOD Instruction The DOD computer tape that we obtained from the National Archives in early contained 57, names, including those known or presumed to have died, those still officially missing in action approximately 10 and those still officially prisoners of war one. The 57, included casualties from battles and from other causes. The source documents for the DOD list had been the DD Forms military death certificates forwarded by the casualty offices of the service branches.
We arranged with the Records Center in St. To cross-check for possible omissions, I contacted the service branch casualty offices for lists that may have been compiled independently. Seven of those, who either died in the war zone or as a result of wounds sustained in the war zone, appeared to meet the criteria set in the Executive Order and DOD Instruction, so I added them. John Benson carves the date into what would become the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
The names included casualties on isolated outposts in Laos that were within the area specified by the DOD instruction. I added them. There appeared also the names of the men who died in the effort to rescue the crew of the American container ship SS Mayaguez, which had been captured by the Khmer Rouge off the Cambodian coast in mid-May That was the last battle of the Vietnam War.
It technically happened outside the war zone, but I added those names as well. They became the last ones on the memorial. The greatest discrepancy came from casualties in Thailand. However, Air Force crews flew from there to Vietnam and Laos, and it was likely that planes had gone down in Thailand because of battle damage in the war zone.
Furthermore, Thailand was included in the area defined by the DOD instruction. I therefore added the names of those indicated to have died in Thailand due to flight operations—approximately Finally, I added the names of eight crewmen on an Air Force bomber that exploded in the Pacific on a combat mission coming from Guam.
The St. Louis center had no record of them, but at the National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland, I found most of the 53 men listed on the actual casualty reports from the war zone detailing the extent of injuries for each. Where the daily log indicated that the man had died or had severe injuries or else no record could be found, I added the name to the list, a total of Years later, however, we found that some of them had survived, so the names of some living veterans were inscribed on the Wall.
The DOD list began arbitrarily with Jan. On July 8, , Master Sgt.
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