THE WALL -- West Virginia developer Meme Science will open the Vietnam Veteran’s War Memorial Wall Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. SLT to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the dedication of ‘The Wall’ that took place in Washington DC in November 1982; with the Reading of the Names. Read about how this SL project started in our Sept. 28 story .

Upon entering the sim

, visitors will see a video and hear the names of the 58, 223 veterans read, with Jimmy Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" playing in the background. At 1 p.m. all 58,223 names will be read via text to speech technology via the Web server.

Visitors may search for a Vietnam serviceman who died by typing the name at a directory station. Each name is assigned a number. When the name is found, the visitor will be transported to the panel on the 500-foot wall where the name is etched in the black granite.

The SL replica was created by builders Meleni Fairymeadow, and Bleys Chevalier. Fairymeadow says she used 20 photographs from different angles to accurately depict the famous statue of the three servicemen that sits near the granite wall. Fairymeadow says it took her about three weeks to build the 500-prim statue. She has been building for about a year, and spends 8 to 16 hours a day. "I do it for a loving rather than a living," Fairymeadow says.

TheWallSL.com will stream the video of the live dedication that former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will give on Veterans Day, November 11 in Washington, DC. The video dedication will be rebroadcast at The Wall in Second Life within hours of the live broadcast.