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How are the names arranged?

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How are the names arranged?

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The names are in chronological order, according to the date of casualty (which is not necessarily the date of death, but rather the date from the point of injury which led to the death). As prescribed by Maya Lin, The Wall’s designer, this arrangement allows those servicemembers who died together to forever be linked.

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