Much like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., a new memorial wall at Camp Pendleton honors fallen Marines and Sailors by etching their names permanently in stone. The base held a ceremony Wednesday to unveil the wall, according to the Los Angeles Times.
There are 1,146 names on the 44-foot-long wall. The dead all lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, reminded the ceremony attendees:
The $65,000 needed to build the wall was raised by local Rotary Clubs, according to the North County Times.
