Sometimes a horse without a rider also takes part in a funeral. The best known riderless horse was Black Jack. He took part in the funerals of presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The horse was named after a famous general known as “Black Jack” Pershing.
The Wall
Each year about one and one-half million people visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. It is one of the most-visited places in Washington.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was the idea of a former soldier named Jan Scruggs. He fought in the Vietnam War. The war ended in 1975. Many soldiers came home only to face the anger of Americans who opposed the war.
Jan Scruggs organized an effort to remember those who never returned.
In 1980, a group of former soldiers announced a competition to design a memorial. The winner, Maya Lin, was 21-years-old. She was studying architecture at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Maya Lin designed a memorial formed by two walls of black stone.
Maya Lin
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened in 1982.
The walls are about 76 meters long. They are set into the earth. They meet to form a wide V. The names of more than 58,000 Americans killed or declared missing-in-action are cut into the stone.
Nearby is a statue of three soldiers. They are looking in the direction of the names. Another statue honors the service of women in the war.
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