The National Mall in Washington, D.C., has long been a place of monumental memorialization, from permanent fixtures such as the Washington Monument and the Vietnam War Memorial ... to understand.

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington ... soldiers and a flag in a central position at the wall.

One of the most moving war memorials, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial – or ... march toward an American flag. Next to the soldiers is a 164-foot-long granite wall that pays homage to the unnamed ...