Search “The Wall”

Footnote.com and the Washington Times have made the Vietnam Memorial searchable;

Now you can add your story and remembrance to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In collaboration with the archival search company Footnote, The Times has made each of the 58,000-plus names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial searchable, a place where you can add personal stories. A digital image of the wall — actually thousands of photos fused together — locates each veteran’s name where it appears on the memorial. From there, any visitor to The Times site can leave their stories and remembrances or upload photos of veterans. Start by clicking on the “Search the Wall” box, where you can select “Search” or “View.” Once you find the name of a soldier, you can add your stories or photos.

The Times doesn’t mention this but the project was funded by the National Archives and launched a few months ago. This is a perfect example of things the government should be doing – making our history more available to us. If you click on the picture of the Wall above, it’ll take you to the “virtual” Wall.

Category: Society, Support the troops