Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who
served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
was dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site
by thousands of veterans of the conflict

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The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-
granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939
Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order
of death, not rank, as was common in other memorials.

The designer of the memorial was Maya Lin, a Yale
University architecture student who entered a
nationwide competition to  create a design for
the monument. Lin, born in Ohio in 1959, the
daughter of Chinese immigrants.        


        
        
        
       
       

Bob Doubek, project director, and Maya Lin, designer of the 
Memorial.

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The United States Treasury minted
its final production of pennies on Wednesday at the U.S. Mint
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (above).

"The penny was first authorized by the Coinage Act of 1792;
however, ongoing increases in production costs and the
evolution in consumer habits and technology have made its
production financially untenable," according to a statement
from the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

The last two pennies minted were stamped with a special
omega and will not be circulated. Instead, the government
intends to auction the pennies off.

In February, President Donald Trump publicly called to halt
penny production, citing the fact that pennies cost more
money than they are worth.

The half-cent coin was the last coin to be discontinued in
1857. 

                
CAMILE BOHANNON

Exactly three years after the end of World War I, the Tomb
of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated at Arlington Cemetery
in Virginia during an Armistice Day ceremony presided over
by President Warren G. Harding.

Two days before, an unknown American soldier, who had
fallen somewhere on a World War I battlefield, arrived at
the nation’s capital from a military cemetery in France.

As the soldier was lowered to his final resting place, a two-
inch layer of soil brought from France was placed below his
coffin so that he might rest forever atop the earth on which
he died.