What is the criteria for being on the Vietnam memoral?

Question

do you have to have died during the war in vietnam? could you have been poisoned by agent orange but died years later? whats the criteria?

Answer 1

I have good friends who work for the Vietnam Veteran Memorial Fund, which is the non-profit organization that manages the funds to build and maintain the memorial.

For a Veteran to have their name inscribed on The Wall, he or she was KIA or MIA in support of the Vietnam War efforts according to criteria set in an Executive Order and a DOD Instruction. Mortal casualties occurring within the designated combat areas and those deaths occurring anywhere as the result or aftermath of an initial casualty occurring in a combat area qualified to be included on The Wall. Executive Order 11216 by President Johnson on April 24, 1965 designated Vietnam and adjacent waters as a combat zone. The combat zone was expanded to include Cambodia and Laos along with some exceptions to those serving in Thailand.

57,939 names were inscribed on The Wall when it was dedicated in 1982. 310 names have been added to The Wall since then. Unfortunately, thousands of Vietnam Veterans who had died due to health complications resulting from their service in Vietnam (i.e. Agent Orange) will not be added as such casualties do not meet the criteria of being memorialized on The Wall.

More information can be found at the following link:

http://www.vvmf.org/index.cfm?SectionID=...

Answer 2

Contact the Vietnam Veteran's Association, War Memorila group.  They can tell you.  But I believe it is having died in Vietnam ....

Good luck finding what you need.

Answer 3

die in the battle........

Answer 4

lynz is that you??? is this whitetiger14??? lol i tried typing this in on google and u were the first link lol!!!! omg small world