The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War.The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing as a result of their service in Vietnam and South East Asia during the war.

The Vietnam People's Navy (Vietnamese: Hải quân nhân dân Việt Nam, formally Quân chủng Hải quân (lit. 'the Service of Navy')), also known as the Vietnamese People's Navy or the Vietnam/Vietnamese Navy (Vietnamese: Hải quân Việt Nam), is the naval branch of the Vietnam People's Army and is responsible for the protection of the country's national waters, islands, …