1. If there were 580 names on one column of the wall and 100 columns how many names make up the wall?
2. If the Vietnam Wall was 5,280 ft. from the Smithsonian, and a group wanted to walk from the Smithsonian to the wall at a steady speed of 1 mph. how long would it take the group to get to the wall if they go half the way and take a 5 min. break?

Scavenger Hunt

1. What was the year in which the Vietnam Wall was built?
2. What was the initial cost of the wall?
3. How many names were first given to be put on the wall?
4. How many thousands of cubic feet are there in the wall?
5. How tall is the wall? 
6. What years are included on the wall?
7. How long is the wall? (in feet)
8. What is the symbol of the confirmed dead?
9.  What does the 7 foot statue represent?

1. The wall has more than 14,000 names.
2. The was is in front of the reflection pool.
3. The nearest monument to the wall is the Washington Monument.
4. The wall is over three miles long.
5. The wall is in memory of the Vietnam War.

         The Vietnam Wall memorial was an idea thought of by a person named Jan Scruggs.  Jan thought of the idea while watching a movie named "The Deer Hunter".  Jan's ideas were affective, and the Vietnam Wall was built in 1979.
        Work started in March on 1979 at a set cost of $7,000,000.  58,132 men and women's names make up the wall of black granite.   All the names were grit blasted on the wall to finish the job, but in 1987 a second list of names which overlooked earlier were added to the wall.
        The overall length of the wall stretches 246 feet and reaches 15 foot in height.  At the base of the wall many leave items in memory of their loved ones which the National Park Service collects so the items can be placed in a possible future museum.
 

Answers to Word Problems

1. 14,500
2. 1 hr. 5 min.

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 1979
2. $7,000,000
3. 58,100
4. 3,000
5. 15 feet
6. 1969-1975
7. 246 feet
8. diamond
9. People who fought in the Vietnam War.

Answers to Fact and Fiction

1. true.
2. true.
3. true.
4. false.
5. true.

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