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My fellow Cadtes:
People wishing to pay respects to the 58,000 U.S. servicemen and women who
were killed or went missing during the Vietnam War but cannot travel to the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington can now do so from their desktop
computers. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and
Footnote.com, a company that specializes in digitizing historic documents,
have launched a searchable digital replica of the wall. Users can post photos
and comments and view information about veterans. Footnote.com partnered with
NARA to make digitized copies of photos from the war available on its Web site
and to link the service records and casualty reports to the names on the
virtual wall. Visitors can search the virtual wall on line at
http://go.footnote.com/thewall by name to see photographs of the entries on
the physical wall and related information that has been posted. Some 1,500
digital photos of the actual memorial wall were used for this digital
recreation and the company is in the process of digitizing more than 50,000 of
NARA's Vietnam photos, which can be accessed at no charge from any computer on
Footnote.com through April and permanently at no cost from NARA locations.
ACE Class of 64
