And while this Memorial of solemn granite walls — laden with panel after panel inscribed with hundreds and hundreds of names — is dedicated to all who served, there are many veterans who have died prematurely as a result of the war and whose names will never be commemorated in stone. How do we acknowledge the debt to those whose lives have been cut short because of exposure to a defoliant sprayed in the jungles of Vietnam?

And while this Memorial of solemn granite walls — laden with panel after panel inscribed with hundreds and hundreds of names — is dedicated to all who served, there are many veterans who have died prematurely as a result of the war and whose names will never be commemorated in stone. How do we acknowledge the debt to those whose lives have been cut short because of exposure to a defoliant sprayed in the jungles of Vietnam?