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Virtual Wall Allows Public to Reach Out to Vietnam Dead
Friday, November 8, 2002
By By Kathleen T. Rhem
American Forces Press Service

People can submit photos to be added to their submitted text. "Photos on The Virtual Wall can help demonstrate the personality and memorialize the person behind each name on The Wall," the site says. "Photos may be of the person named on The Wall or family members, at any age."

WASHINGTON -- AFIS
Each year, visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial here leave thousands of mementos at the base of the Wall. Since 1997, visitors to a non- profit Internet site can do the same -- virtually.

The Virtual Wall, at http://www.virtualwall.org/, is run by volunteers whose only purpose is to provide an alternate way for people to remember those lost in Vietnam.

Nov. 13 is the 20th anniversary of the dedication of the actual Wall on the national Mall. Government officials and veterans groups are planning reunions and presentations at the Wall on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and throughout that week to mark the occasion.

Visitors to the virtual site can also submit notes and photographs to be placed on memorial pages dedicated to individuals whose names are on the true Wall. Not all the Wall's names are memorialized on the Web site, but thousands are -- mostly sent in by family members and friends.
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