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11 November 2009 

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Turns 25
 
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial lines up with the Washington Monument on one end and, although it is less visible, the Lincoln Memorial on the other.
Visitors are encouraged to touch names and take rubbings.
Architect Maya Lin described the Wall as resembling ‘a wound in the earth that is slowly healing.’
Visitors have left more than 100,000 artifacts including articles of clothing, photographs, medals, and letters at the Memorial
More than four million people visit the Memorial every year; most are too young to remember the Vietnam War
For the 25th anniversary, a marine played taps before the 58,000 names engraved on the wall were read.
Jan Scruggs is President and Founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
This statue of three soldiers was added to the Memorial in 1984, two years after the Wall was dedicated
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial lines up with the Washington Monument on one end and, although it is less visible, the Lincoln Memorial on the other.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial lines up with the Washington Monument on one end and, although it is less visible, the Lincoln Memorial on the other.
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