Virtual Vietnam Wall Opens

April 3, 2008 By Digital Trends Staff

Virtual Vietnam Wall Opens

You donâ€™t have to travel to Washington to remember those who fell any more.

Last week the Virtual Vietnam Wall opened online, a joint venture between the National Archives and footnote.com. As well as allowing friends, family and former comrades to leave online tributes to the fallen, it links names to historical documents, photos andcasualty reports to offer an experience that’s fuller and richer and decidedly different than the real thing in Washington, D.C. It was opened without a great deal of fanfare, but alsooffers the chance to visit and remember to the many who can’t physically make the trip to the East Coast, as well as for groups of veterans to visit it together. The image of the virtualwall was assembled from 6,301 images, and contains 58,320 names. Of those, eight are women, and 2,056 are listed as “body not recovered.” The average age of the dead was 22.8 years.

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Lane at 10:47am 3rd April 2008 The National Archives and Footnote announced a new interactive wall that is found at http://go.footnote.com/thewall. The virtualwall.org is also a wonderful resource, but not associated.
VeteranJim at 7:03am 3rd April 2008 A web site similar ot the one described above opened in 1997. The web site named THE VIRTUAL WALL (TM) at www.VirtualWall.org has thousands of personal tributes to the fallen in the form of letters, photographs, and citations.

In 2001 THE VIRTUAL WALL (TM) partnered to take high-resolution photographs of the Wall, which can be browsed and zoomed at www.ViewTheWall.com

Clicking on a name displays the database information for that person.

THE VIRTUAL WALL (TM) does not accept donations, fees, or advertising in order to honor the fallen.