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Offerings Left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Photographs of items left at the Wall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Vietnam magazine presents a photo selection of the more than 100,000 objects left at the Wall since the memorial’s dedication in 1982.

For an online interview with Duery Felton, curator of the memorial’s collection of objects that are archived at the National Park Service Museum Resource Center near Washington, D.C., see Vietnam magazine October 2009 issue.

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