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On 6 June 2016, a Facebook user posted the following image and comment: The image was subsequently circulated widely across Facebook, with the descriptor Vietnam Wall leading many viewers to believe that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. had been vandalized. However, the Associated Press published an article about the damage which noted that the defaced monument was a smaller replica painted (not engraved) on a wall in Los Angeles that had previously been the target of acts of vandalism: The Los Angeles Times also published an article on the subject that described the defaced memorial wall as a mural: The replica Vietnam Wall in Los Angeles was painted by a veteran and dedicated in 1992. Restoration efforts (much of it performed by volunteer veterans) were undertaken immediately after the defacement, but local officials described the damage as extensive, and in the interim the wall was covered as a gesture of respect to the fallen. Update: In spring 2020, amid nationwide demonstrations against police brutality following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, while under restraint by a white police officer, this image went viral again with the new (and false) claim that the memorial was vandalized by Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters:
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