* The 200-foot V-shaped wall contains 144 panels.
* As of May 2018, there were 58,320 names, most in chronological order by date of their casualty.
* The official number of deaths in Vietnam is 58,220. Some names were erroneously included, but other names have been added.
* The wall has names of eight women nurses.
* The names of Missing in Action soldiers are on the wall, marked by a plus sign. If any are found alive, the plus will be turned into a diamond.
* The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund raised $8.4 million entirely from 275,000 individual people and organizations. No federal funds were used.
Rick Good spent ten years in the newspaper business, including with The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) and The Greenville News (Greenville, SC). He co-wrote, with Melinda Coleman, Rutledge to Riley: Governors of South Carolina, 1776–Present (Published by The Greenville News), and is the author of Mind Games Trivia #1 (Amazon). He has recently spent 15 years creating original trivia content through Sounds Good Mobile Entertainment and continues that with his new company, SGME Software. He edits The Smart Reader’s money, real estate, and business coverage.
