The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is located in Constitution Gardens, adjacent to the National Mall and nearby the Lincoln Memorial. Its two acre site contains four separate memorials, the last of which was added in 2004.
The largest and best-known of these is the Memorial Wall, on which the names of more than 50,000 men and woman who died or went missing in action are listed chronologically in order of death, from 1955 to 1975. The other two original memorials are a sculpture called The Three Soldiers and the Vietnam Women’s Memorial. A memorial plaque added in 2004 commemorates those who died after the war from injuries sustained in it.
The memorial was opened in 1982, and represented an important milestone in America’s long healing process after the chaos and death of the Vietnam War. It remains a popular tourist attraction today.
