Vietnam Veterans Memorial — Online & Searchable
1 Comment Published by Jason March 31st, 2008 in Announcements, Destinations, Milestones. Share This
The National Archives and Records Administration and Footnote have worked together to produce an online, searchable, version of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Allowing users to search by name, rank, branch of service or hometown the service shares information about the record of each soldier’s record.
Facts about The Interactive Wall
At full size, The Wall image on Footnote is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels tall).
We found 58,320 names inscribed on The Wall.
There are about 70 names which are duplicates or misspellings.
8 names are women.
2,056 are listed as “body not recovered.”
Average age is 22.8 years old.
The image was assembled from 6,301 images photographed by Peter Krogh and stitched by Darren Higgins
Interactive Vietnam Veterans Memorial ** Thanks GearLive**
Web sites similar to the one listed above have been active for several years.
The web site named The Virtual Wall is at http://www.VirtualWall.org and opened in 1997. That web site has thousands of personal remembrances honoring those who died in Vietnam.
In 2001 The Virtual Wall partnered to take high-resolution photographs of the Wall, which can be browsed and zoomed at
http://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.