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?

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3. 1) If the construction of the Vietnam Wall was planned on March 11, 1982, began on March 16, 1982, and the ground breaking took place on March 26, 1982. How many hours did it take for them to really start on the wall after it was planned?
4. If $9,000,000 was raised for the Vietnam Wall and about 280,000 individual people contributed to it. How much did each individual person contribute?
5. 3) There were 5 groups of names added to the wall after the wall had been dedicated. There were 68 names added in group 1; 15 names in group 2; 110 names in group 3; 6 names in group 4; and 3 names in group 5; and there are 58,229 names altogether. What percent of names were added after the wall was dedicated?

Scavenger Hunt

1.   What year did the construction of the Vietnam Wall begin?

2. About how much money did they raise to fund the Vietnam Wall?

3. How did they find the design for the wall?

4.  How many criteria were required for the design of the wall?

5. What was the person's name that designed the wall?

6. Who designed the statue that is beside the wall?

7. How many names are on the wall?

8. How many of these people are still missing?

Answers

1. VVM stands for Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

2. Mimi Van Yusen designed the Wall.

3. There are 58,229 names on the Wall.

4. There is an East and West Side of the Wall.

5. The Wall is made out of Tennessee Pink Marble.

6. The construction of the Wall began in the year of 1982.

7. The design was chosen through an online research program.

8. Johnny Scruggs founded the Wall.

Go to http://www.thewall-usa.com/information to find the answers

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The Veterans Memorial Funds raised about 9,000,000 dollars for the memorial. More than 275,000 individual Americans, private contributions from corporations, foundations, and veterans paid for the memorial.
          In October 1980 the Veterans Memorial Funds committee had a contest for the designs of the wall. The criteria required was: be reflective, harmonize with its surroundings, contain the names of those who had died in the conflict or who were still missing, and make no political statement about the war. The winner of the contest was a girl named Maya Ying Lin of Yale University. The winning design was like a park in a park.
          On March 11,1982, the plans were sent to be approved by the Federal government. On the day of March 16, 1982, work began on the site. The wall and the statue were finished and put together on the day of November 1, 1982. The Vietnam Wall is located in Washington D.C., at Constitution Avenue between 21^st and 23^rd Streets, NW. The opening ceremony was on November 11,1984.      
          The official name for the "wall", or the VVM, is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Three bronze statues of young soldiers who stand by the memorial are called "The Three Servicemen". Another statue is of two women nurses holding a wounded solider. Some people might think that the "wall" is a war memorial for the war, but it is not, it is a memorial for those who served in the war.
          The names that are on the wall were sent from the families of the soldiers. Since there are over 58,000 names on the wall it is almost impossible to find a particular name without the guidebooks. So you look for the year that your person died in the guidebooks and look in that column until you find the name.
          I felt so sad at this particular site because it was so moving. You couldn't yell or be loud at this Memorial, because it would be very disrespectful. Everyone tried to get or got a sketching of a name from the wall. This was one of my favorite sites that I visited.

Answers to Word Problems

1. 14,500
2. 1 hr. 5 min.
3. 384 hours
4. $32.14
5. 5,502,700%

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 1982

2. $9,000,000

3. They had a nation-wide contest.

4. 4

5. Maya Ying Lin

6. Frederic Hart

7. 58,229

8. 1,300

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Answers to Fact and Fiction

1. Fact

2. Fiction, Maya Ying Lin

3. Fact

4. Fact

5. Fiction, Black Granite

6. Fact

7. Fiction, It was found through a national contest for designs.

8. Fiction, Jan Scruggs

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