Photo Essays
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Ceremony
Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, delivers opening remarks before a ceremony commemorating the addition of four new names of U.S. servicemembers added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, May 7, 2008, Washington, D.C.James Nicholson, former secretary of Veteran Affairs, speaks to the press about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial before the ceremony, May 7, 2008, Washington, D.C. Jan C. Scruggs, left, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, looks on.Priscilla Mason, the widow of U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason, who died a year ago from complications resulting from a wound he sustained in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive in 1968, talks to the press before the ceremony, May 7, 2008, Washington, D.C. Jan C. Scruggs, right, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, listens as Mason speaks.James Lee, who has engraved many names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, explains some of the technical aspects of the process to Priscilla Mason, whose deceased husband's name is being added to the wall, and to Jan C, Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, May 7, 2008, Washington, D.C. Mason is the widow of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason, who died May 28, 2006, of complications from wounds he received Feb. 28, 1968, during the Tet Offensive.James Lee, who has engraved many names onto the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, uses a sandblaster to stencil U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason's name onto the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, May 7, 2008, Washington, D.C. Mason died May 28, 2006, of complications from wounds he received Feb. 28, 1968, during the Tet Offensive. James Lee holds a piece of white paper so Priscilla Mason can get a rubbing of her late husband's name off the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., after Lee added his name on May 7, 2008. U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason died May 28, 2006, of complications from wounds he received Feb. 28, 1968, during the Tet Offensive.Priscilla Mason, widow of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Raymond C. Mason, who died May 28, 2006, as a result of complications from a wound he received during the Tet Offensive in 1968, shakes hands with James Nicholson, former secretary of Veterans Affairs, thanking him and Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, for their help in getting her husband's name added to the memorial on May 7, 2008.Visitors pay tribute to the wall’s 58,260 etched names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which bear testament to the ultimate sacrifice made by U.S. troops.
Jan C. Scruggs, founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, delivers opening remarks before a ceremony commemorating the addition of four new names of U.S. servicemembers added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, May 7, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Defense Dept. photo by Sebastian J. Sciotti, Jr.