Recent ones, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, are etched with lists of names.

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The rally in Washington opened with speeches at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from celebrities such as musician Patti Smith and actress Susan Sarandon.

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We just observed Memorial Day, an extraordinarily moving Memorial Day -- we were down at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorating 50 years since that difficult and challenging war.

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The memorial has generated only a bare murmur of controversy, compared to the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, for example, whose design provoked a huge, if short-lived, outcry from the very group it was designed to honor.

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