In my last post I promised to share some pictures from New Mexico today. As has so often been the case recently I was going to share some faces from a memorial in Tejeras. Check out the full post here.

But, today (8/15/22) I read an article posted from a local radio station (WTOP) about how the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) had announced that the effort to find a photograph of every hero listed on The Wall had finally been completed.

 

 

The effort began in 2001 with one volunteer and after more than two decades is finally complete. 58,281 pictures have finally been compiled. The effort will continue as some of the photos are of poor quality and they would like to find additional information for some. This is still a huge milestone.

As you may know there was an effort to build an Education Center at The Wall which would have featured all the photos, all the mementos left at The Wall  by visitors and much history, but the effort failed and it will not be built.

My efforts as you know have mostly been "portraits" taken from statues and other memorials from around the county, but now you can see every face on The Virtual Wall. https://www.virtualwall.org/faces/iphot174.htm.

So, go and check out the completed Wall of Faces project and if you are not in the DC area watch out for The Wall that Heals, a traveling version of The Wall that wanders the country all year. https://www.vvmf.org/The-Wall-That-Heals/     It is remarkable.

My thanks to Melissa Howell of WTOP radio in Washington DC for permission to use her article as a guide. You can check it out here.

Here is the announcement from Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund released a couple of days ago.

Next time, we will return to New Mexico as previously promised, so join me there on the 22nd at 9:00am.

To see Vietnam memorials from any state, please click on the state name on the left side of this page.

I will ask, as I do at the end of nearly every post now, for anyone who has pictures of Vietnam memorials not seen here to please send them to me. I will give you full photo credit for the pic and any information about it you may know. Check your state, or anywhere you may have visited, from the list at the left, or any place else.

Please send them to Ldddad@comcast.net or the email listed on the left.