Regular Readers of The Senior Surfer might remember a post, not too long ago, about Foonote.com (see: A Playground On The Web For Armchair Historians), a site that lets you see historical source documents online. Well now, there's another reason to visit the site-they've recently added the Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Access to this digitized version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial located in Washington D.C. means you can zoom in with a couple of mouse clicks and see all the 58,320 names of the deceased or missing veterans, as they appear on the actual Memorial. What's more, you can even annotate the virtual wall with personal tributes, stories and photographs-hence the reason it's called "interactive."
A must-see for everyone, but especially for those wishing to visit the Memorial but can't make the trip to Washington, D.C.
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The Vietnam Wall has been on line since 1997.
In 1997 the web site named The Virtual Wall (TM) at www.VirtualWall.org was opened by a small group of Vietnam veterans and relatives of Vietnam War casualties.
The Virtual Wall has thousands of personal tributes to the fallen in the form of letters, photographs, and citations.
In 2001 The Virtual Wall 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 has operated for more than 11 years without accepting donations, fees, or advertising in order to honor the fallen.
Jim,
Thank you for bringing these important resources to the attention of our readers!
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