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Side-by-side. row by row. each of them loved this country. and everything it stands for. more than life itself. >>trace: the president vowed to take care of the troop whose make him heavy long after their service is over and moments ago the president held a ceremony at vietnam memorial as we showed you to mark the start of a 13 year project to honor the 50-year anniversary of the vietnam war. and now to ed live at the white house. ed the ceremony at wall was a long time coming for many vietnam veterans. >> it was. and that's because of the fact that when many of the vietnam veterans came home ...

>>trace: it was a site -- sight to be seen. you talk about the fact there are 58,282 names on the wall street. you mentioned this is the biggest draw in the nation's capitol. what brings people there and why is the draw so powerful. >>guest: the vietnam veterans memorial is the most visited site in washington, dc, more so than lincoln right behind it or washington at the other end of the wall or the capitol. and it is that way because there are a lot of americans who realized way too late that those who sacrificed so much, whose names are on that wall, the killed and missing, 75,000 who were t...

Miles into the jungle, but it was one of america's first major operations in that faraway land. 50 years later we come to this wall with this sacred place to remember. we can step towards the granite wall and reach out, touch a name. today is memorial day when we recall all those who gave everything in the darkness of war so we could stand here in the glory of spring. today begins the 50th commemoration of our war in vietnam. we honor each of those names etched in stone.

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