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MARCH 29 |
| 1973 The last American troops leave South Vietnam, ending US direct military involvement in Vietnam. Nine years later a groundbreaking ceremony would begin construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. A nationwide design competition had been held, judged by a panel of architects and artists, in which the entry submitted by Maya Ying Lin, a 21-year-old Chinese-American undergraduate student at Yale University, had been selected. A Vietnam Women's Memorial would later be dedicated on Veterans Day, 1993. Fact and Figures on US Military Personnel Serving and Casualties: Vietnam War (1964-1973) (Information provided by US Department of Defense) |
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