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Article: A Touching Memorial; The Korean War Veterans Memorial uses technology to tell the soldier's story
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- The Washington Post
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- July 26, 1995
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Although its dedication occurs this week, the new Korean War
Veterans Memorial remains a work in progress. An example of the new
wave of monument design that incorporates digitized data, the
memorial is the first to include computer-delivered images of the
dead. When the memorial opens it will include about 35,000 digitized
service records of those killed in action, which can be accessed via
touch-screen technology. But the database is incomplete. As many as
17,000 additional biographies will be added as information flows in
on the others who died in war. And only 1,500 photos have been
scanned in so far. Survivors of the men killed-yes, all are men-have
been encouraged to send photos and ...