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    Quote Originally Posted by RTK View Post
    From professionalsoldier<dot>com. I'm not sure who this was sent to.
    That same individual has allegedly denied having sent this e-mail, and there appears to be no NPS employee by the original name referenced.

    The damage is most probably NOT a maintenance error. Unless they are also doing maintenance by scraping with a screwdriver and knife to deface names on the wall, also. Reported the at the same time the oily substance was discovered along the length of several panels of the wall.

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    Displaying my ignorance: What are the panels made out of?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Penta View Post
    Displaying my ignorance: What are the panels made out of?
    Granite if memory serves me correct.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Penta View Post
    Displaying my ignorance: What are the panels made out of?
    From The Wall's information page.

    WHAT KIND OF STONE IS THIS?
    It is black granite from Bangalore, India, one of only three places in the world (the other countries are Sweden and South Africa) that you could get this amount of black granite in large sizes. Rogan Granite Industries was responsible for obtaining the stone. It is used for the walls, safety curbs and walkways. The lettering is light gray in color, the natural color of the abraded stone, which contrasts sharply with the polished black surface, making it extremely legible.

    WHERE WAS THE STONE CUT?

    All cutting and fabrication were done in Barre, Vermont. The variations in color and texture between the panels and the curbs and walkways are a result of different finishing techniques, i.e. polishing, honing and flame treating.

    HOW WERE THE NAMES CARVED?

    The names were NOT carved by hand, but by a computerized typesetting process (by Datalantic, Incorporated, Atlanta, Georgia) called photo stencil gritblasting, developed by Larry Century, specifically for the Memorial, in Memphis, Tennessee.

    HOW WAS THE PROCESS DONE?

    The process is of a digitized typeface called Optima. It involves a film negative at one-third in size from which an enlargement is made, a film positive (a stencil) at full size. The next step is coating the granite, which has been polished, with a photo sensitive emulsion, and the image is then transferred from the enlargement to the stone in a process very similar to silkscreening. When this step has been completed, the stone within the area of the letters is exposed and the remaining surface is protected by the emulsion. The size of the letters is .53 inches, and they are approximately .015 inches in depth. Inscribing of the names was done by Binswanger Glasscraft Products. The inscribing of the additional names (April and May 1986) was done by Great Panes Glasswork, Incorporated (based in Denver, Colorado) with a coordinated effort by Cooper-Lecky Architects.
    Example is better than precept.

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    Thanks for the info.

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