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.

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.

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 ...