This memorial honors each and every one of the 43,277,096 US military Veterans who served our country during wartime from the beginning of the American Revolutionary War through July 2007 of the Global War on Terror.

It honors each and every servicemember, individually, regardless of where they served, when they served, how they served or why they served.

They all gave their lives, for a time, some forever.

Every single one of these 43,277,096 Veterans is individually represented in this book by a graphical symbol printed in the shape of a person: ?

This memorial contains 12,622 pages and each full page displays 3,450 symbols, each representing an individually honored Veteran. There are 50 symbols in each of the 69 rows on each page.

The symbols are printed in one of three colors, black, red or blue. Each symbol printed in black represents a servicemember that was killed during wartime. Each symbol printed in red represents a servicemember that was non-mortally wounded during wartime. The symbols printed in blue represent each of the remaining wartime servicemembers.