VISITOR GUIDE
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Help
visitors find names on the Wall
- Make rubbings of names on
the
Wall or help visitors do it
- Be prepared to tell
visitors
some facts about the Wall
- Help maintain a solemn
and dignified environment near the Wall
- "I came
to see my son's name" is about the Visitor Guide task.
VISITOR
GUIDES SHOULD KNOW
- The
order of names on the Wall
- How to make name rubbings
- A few simple facts about
the
Wall
THE
ORDER OF NAMES ON THE WALL
- The
East Wall and West Wall are named for the alignment in Washington
- No matter which way a
Traveling
Wall is set up, the "East Wall" in on the right
- The panels are numbered
from 1
in the center to 70 at the ends.
- The names are in the
order of
death or incident that caused "missing" status.
- Within a given day, the
names are listed in alphaetical order.
- The order of names goes
down
each panel, then to the top of the next panel.
- Lines on each panel are
counted from the top.
- The last name on the East
Wall is on panel E-70, May 28, 1968
- The next name is on the
opposite end of the Wall on panel W-70
- The last name on the Wall
is at the bottom of panel W-1, next to panel
E-1.
- When the Wall was built,
there were 5 names on each line. Some now have 6.
- If a man died after the
war of an injury, his name is put as close as
possible to names of others who died the same day.
A
FEW FACTS ABOUT THE WALL
- The
Wall in Washington, DC was built in 1982
- There are now 58,261
names on
the Wall
- A few names have been
added
every year since the Wall was built
- The Wall is maintained by
the
US National Park Service with your tax dollars
- The correct name is
Vietnam
Veterans Memorial: it is not a "war" memorial
- On
the Wall in Washington, the date at the top of panel E-1 is 1959.
- The first casualties are
listed on panel E-1 (East), under the 1957 (AVTT Wall)
- The date on the bottom of
panel W-1 is 1975. Although US involvement in the war ended in 1973,
some Marines were killed as South Vietnam fell in 1975.
- More details are
available on the web site named The Virtual Wall®
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