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Just south of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is the Vietnam Womenâs Memorial, which serves to commemorate the 265,000 women that served in the Vietnam War, many of whom worked as nurses.
First unveiled on November 13, 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial remains an atypical war monument. Its main feature, a V-shaped wall inscribed with the names of over 58,000 U.S. soldiers killed during the Vietnam War, lacks heroic or patriotic symbols, and its polished black granite faÃ§ade contrasts with the white marble statues and structures surrounding it on the National Mall.