When Was The Vietnam War Memorial Wall Built. After $8.4 million was raised through private donations, congress commissioned for the memorial to be built at a site near the lincoln memorial. The vietnam memorial, a black reflective granite wall with the names of all the americans killed in the vietnam war enscribed.
One end of the memorial wall former army nurse diane carlson evans led the efforts to recognize the bravery of the nearly 11,000 women who volunteered.
California town's vietnam war memorial to the missing vandalized. A replica vietnam wall in los angeles was defaced by vandals, but the larger monument in washington, d.c., was not. Vietnam veterans memorial, also called the wall, national monument in washington, d.c., honouring members of the u.s. The war was the cause of the greatest social and political dissent in australia since the conscription referendums of the first world war.