TruemorsVietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington DC. "The Wall" was designed by Maya Lin who felt that "the politics had eclipsed the veterans, their service and their lives."
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In memoriam, digitally speaking
Footnote, a company dedicated to digitizing original source content in its original form, has digitized all 58,000 names on the memorial. The concept of footnote is valuable both practically and... 
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ed_fast1at 22:04 on March 28th, 2008
A vast ocean of names, of human beings, who (politics notwithstanding) died for their country. I learned from talking to some of the visitors that the names of the soldiers are listed in a "timeline" manner. As you walk from left to right, the quantity of fallen soldier begins to increase exponentially. Digitally archiving the names for posterity is a great concept and essential in todays digital age.