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Vietnam Veterans of America is sponsoring a 25th Anniversary Parade celebrating and commemorating the dedication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Saturday, November 10, 2007 on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The festivities will begin at 10:00 a.m. with opening ceremonies at 7th Street between Jefferson and Madison Drives. The parade begins at 11:00 a.m. and will feature Vietnam veterans from all walks of life, military vehicles, floats, motorcyclists, and marching bands from around the country. The parade will end at the Washington Monument Grounds, where participants will take part in a variety of events, including unit reunions.
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Lin is perhaps most well known for her first public commission, the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Conceived of when she was still an undergraduate at Yale University, the memorial is remarkable in that it proposes neither winners nor losers, but only the names of the dead inscribed in a polished, black granite. A corner submerged into the earth, the work is welcoming in its open-ended, book-like form, and yet disconcerting to those who realize that to read the names is to stand below the horizon - six feet under - conversing in the space of the dead. The work is outspoken and angry in the way in which it functions as a visual scar on the American landscape, cutting aggressively into the Washington Mall, and yet is dignified for the way in which it carves out a space for a public display of grief and pain. These emotions, necessary to the healing process, have a place in Lin's work and are as natural as the cycles of the earth. Attentive to the individual life of every man and woman who died in the war, the memorial is ... responsive to the individual experience of the visitor.
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Vietnam veterans, from left, Vance Elliott from Chattanooga, Tenn., Lee Knight from Ringold, Ga. and Charlie Hobbs from Chattanooga, Tenn. pause at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, Friday, Nov. 9, 2007. The memorial which bears the names of those who either died or remain missing in action in Vietnam, etched in black granite, is reaching its 25th anniversary of the site's dedication.
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Vietnam Veterans of America is sponsoring a full day of events, starting with an opening ceremony at 10 a.m. on the Mall, at Seventh Street NW between Jefferson and Madison drives. A parade will follow from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. More activities are set from noon until 6 p.m. near the Washington Monument.
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Every Memorial Day weekend on Sunday, Rolling Thunder, an organization of mostly Viet Nam veterans, comes to DC for their motorcycle ride from the Pentagon to the Vietnam Memorial. It’s an hours-long parade of thousands of participants from across the country to insure that America doesn’t forget the men and women who died for this country in that unpopular war.
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Thousands of Vietnam veterans are coming to Washington this week for events commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Here are highlights of some of the key activities, all of which are free and open to the public:
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