Mission Accomplished ... For Now
The Wall’s been built, so what was 
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund 
to do with itself once it achieved 
its original goal? Plenty — and that’s 
just fine with its donors.
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10 years later
Once the organization began to look at ideas for a 10-year commemoration, it became clear there was more work to be done.
"People were coming to The Wall but didn't have a clear understanding of the Vietnam War itself," Arbogast says. "Teachers were teaching from books that focused on World War I and World War II, where Vietnam was talked about in a day or less.
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