JOIE CHEN, CNN ANCHOR: For nearly 20 years now, it has stood there, known to most people simply as "The Wall." Washington's Vietnam Veterans Memorial continues to draw tremendous numbers of visitors, and it continues to add to its number of names. CNN's Jeanne Meserve on that today.</s>JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In grim black granite, a tally of the cost of war. It grows still larger, more than a quarter century later. Six more names etched with precision, six more names measured to perfection, six more names of men who are now memories. All died after the war from injuries sustained in Vietnam. Army Specialist Fifth Class Billy Smith lived for more than 30 years with the after effects of a serious head wound.</s>MICHAEL SMITH, VETERAN'S BROTHER: He deteriorated to a quadriplegic, but he still was mobile. He, we -- V.A. gave him an electric wheel chair and we went everywhere together. In fact, I once told him that if he and I couldn't get there, we neither one need to be there.</s>MESERVE: They came here when Billy was still alive, joining the throngs who look and linger all day, every day, remembering a war and the lives it took. Now Billy is back at the memorial. His name just rows away from his comrades.</s>SMITH: He's with his friends. He's with fellow heroes and fellow warriors. And he was a warrior. And, you know, that's where he belongs.</s>MESERVE: And that is where he will stay, though his memory will be folded and kept close to a brother's heart. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Washington.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Adds More Names