Vietnam memorial celebrates 20th anniversary: this Veterans Day marks an especially poignant anniversary over and above its normal importance. Twenty years ago this month the nation paid fitting tribute to the 58,229 Americans who died in the Vietnam War. As the pictorial reminds us, VFW played an instrumental role in making it all happen

VFW Magazine, Nov, 2002

* A diamond next to a name indicates the person died, while a cross indicates the person is MIA. When the remains of an MIA are returned, a diamond is superimposed over the cross. A circle is inscribed around the cross if any of the missing return alive. There are no circles.

* The first casualty is listed on Oct. 21, 1957, and the last on May 15, 1975 (the Mayaguez operation off Cambodia).