Editing Vietnam Veterans Memorial (section)

==Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection==
[[File:Vietnam Veterans Memorial.jpg|thumb|Various items left at "The Wall".]]
[[File:USA-Vietnam Veterans Memorial0.JPG|thumb|left|Flags and flowers]]

Items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial are collected by National Park Service employees and transferred to the NPS Museum Resource Center, which catalogs and stores all items except perishable organic matter (such as fresh flowers) and unaltered U.S. flags. The flags are redistributed through various channels.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=February 4, 2022 |title=Collections - Vietnam Veterans Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/vive/learn/collections.htm |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ITEMS LEFT AT THE WALL |url=https://www.vvmf.org/items/ |access-date=2022-09-27 |website=Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund |language=en-US}}</ref>

From 1992 to 2003, selected items from the collection were placed on exhibit at the [[Smithsonian Institution]]'s [[National Museum of American History]] as "Personal Legacy: The Healing of a Nation" including the [[Medal of Honor]] of [[Charles Liteky]], who renounced it in 1986 by placing the medal at the memorial in an envelope addressed to then-president Ronald Reagan.<ref>{{cite journal| url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2081924| doi=10.2307/2081924| jstor=2081924| title=Personal Legacy: The Healing of a Nation; Gathered at the Wall: America and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; Touching Memories: A Photographic Essay on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial| last1=Hagopian| first1=Patrick| journal=The Journal of American History| year=1995| volume=82| issue=1| pages=158–164}}</ref>
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