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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Without seeing the water, the weather, or even his own boat, Dick Lancaster  steered a 25-foot yacht to a silver medal at a sailing world championships this month.

Crews from Italy and Australia do battle in the recent Blind Sailing World Championships in New Zealand.

Lancaster's remarkable feat came at the recent Blind Sailing World Championships on Lake Rotorua, New Zealand. His silver medal added to two golds he has won at previous championships.

The New Zealander, who gradually lost sight until he became completely blind in the last couple of years, is also the chairman of Blind Sailing New Zealand.

Lancaster told CNN that sailing for the blind and visually-impaired is growing around the world. There is also hope that the sport may get its own category at the Paralympics.

"This year's event was as big as it has ever been. We had ten countries represented and most countries sent three teams."

Attendance would have been stronger had it not been for the challenging financial climate, which had prevented some nations from traveling to New Zealand for the event, he said.

Since the inaugural world championships in 1992, events have been held in Australia, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Italy and New Zealand.

At this world championships Lancaster was sailing in the "B1" class which is for the blind, while the "B2" and "B3" classes have lesser levels of visual impairment.

So, how exactly do blind and visually-impaired people manage to sail a large racing boat?

Lancaster explained that it is not as difficult as it may sound.

"We sail with a four man crew. There is a blind person at the helm and another blind person on the mainsheet. There is also a sighted tactician, who's not allowed to touch anything, and a fourth sighted crew member.

"The most challenging thing for me has been the last few years when I have gone from B2 to B1 (blind). You have to rely on your feel a lot more now,"he said.

Even though he is unable to see, Lancaster says it's not impossible.

"There are plenty of people who sail at night-time -- so it's not too difficult."

Contrary what many may presume, Lancaster said there were not too many crashes during races, though some areas of the course were challenging.

"At the start line and when you're going around a mark it gets pretty exciting at times. There's inevitably a few prangs on the water -- but I don't know if there's any more than in other sailing."

New Zealand won the overall team trophy at the event.

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(CNN) -- The White House insists that it was entirely former Sen. Tom Daschle's decision to withdraw his nomination, but some observers say he didn't have a choice.

Tom Daschle said Tuesday that he's stepping aside as the nominee for secretary of health and human services.

Despite the controversy over his tax records and his work in a field that some consider lobbying, Daschle was expected to be confirmed.

His withdrawal shocked Capitol Hill, and Democratic colleagues expressed regret over his decision.

"I think one of the major factors had to be that the political climate has changed radically just in the last couple of weeks," CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry said.

President Obama ripped Wall Street executives last week for their "shameful" decision to hand out $18 billion in bonuses in 2008 while accepting federal bailout money.

The next day, news broke that Daschle hadn't paid his taxes in full. Daschle said Monday that he was "deeply embarrassed" for a series of errors that included failing to report $15,000 in charitable donations, unreported car service and more than $80,000 in unreported income from consulting.

Daschle recently filed amended tax returns and paid more than $140,000 in back taxes and interest for 2005-07.

"That, in this political climate, really tripped up Tom Daschle because it looked awful politically for this White House," Henry said.

In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, Obama said he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Daschle.

"I think I screwed up. And, I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again.

"Ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom-up politics," Obama said.

"And I don't want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards -- one for powerful people and one for ordinary folks who are working every day and paying their taxes."

At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, press secretary Robert Gibbs insisted that the White House did not pressure Daschle to step down.  Watch Gibbs answer questions about Daschle's move Â»

Pressed on whether Daschle was given any sort of signal to resign, Gibbs said, "I don't know how much more clear I could be. The decision was Sen. Daschle's."

A Daschle ally familiar with his thinking said Tuesday that he was not aware of any White House pressure on the former Senate majority leader to withdraw his nomination.

Asked whether Daschle was pushed, the source said, "things don't work that cleanly."

The issue was not whether Daschle could "survive"; it was what that process "would do to Obama" and his health care reform and economic agenda. It's a question of the "price of that confirmation," he said.

The source said Daschle read the Tuesday New York Times editorial urging him to withdraw from consideration but would not say whether that might have played a part in his decision.

"Tom has been a politician for a very long time," the source said. "He understands this town. He made a mistake; he apologized, but timing matters. There was a critical mass building."

Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said he thought Daschle made the decision Tuesday morning.

"I have to believe that Sen. Daschle having spent as many years as he has up here had a clear picture that there was going to be a delay, and I think he didn't want to contribute to that.

In announcing his withdrawal, Daschle said it was an honor to be chosen to lead the reform of America's health care system.

"But if 30 years of exposure to the challenges inherent in our system has taught me anything, it has taught me that this work will require a leader who can operate with the full faith of Congress and the American people, and without distraction," he said in a statement.

"Right now, I am not that leader and will not be a distraction."

Mark Preston, CNN's political editor, pointed out that Daschle has a "history of making 11th-hour decisions."

Six years ago, Daschle made a last-minute decision not to run for president after he had been all set to go.

"I think that the Tom Daschle we saw yesterday was all set to go, and then the pressure started mounting ... and then he decided to pull out," Preston said.

Although he was expected to be confirmed, it was also expected that he'd have to undergo a bruising confirmation hearing that could have led to negative headlines for Obama.

As news broke of the withdrawal, some senators said they were sad to see Daschle step aside, but others said it was the right thing to do.

"I'm in shock. I didn't know that. I don't know what happened," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California. "I talked to him ... the night before last, and he showed no signs of withdrawing."

Feinstein praised Daschle as rare person who could get something like health care through the Senate and said she wishes he had not withdrawn. "I have great faith in him."

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Daschle "did a service to President Obama" by stepping aside.

"I think it really would have looked bad for the Senate to close ranks around a fellow member and sort of reinforce the idea that they were going to protect a member as part of the good ol' boys club," he said.

Daschle has a lengthy history with members of Congress. He represented South Dakota in the House of Representatives for four terms, and he served in the Senate for three terms. He was the Senate majority leader from June 2001 to January 2003 and served as the minority leader before losing his re-election bid in 2005.

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, said Daschle "saved the president from being embarrassed" by withdrawing.  Watch Republicans weigh in on the move Â»

Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he was "a little stunned" by Daschle's decision.

"I thought he was going to get confirmed. I thought -- he's a good man, and I thought he'd be confirmed. I'm surprised," said Baucus, D-Montana.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, insisted that Daschle had owned up to his mistakes.

"He's made his decision, I respect his decision, and we go on from there," Kerry said.

Daschle's resignation came hours after Nancy Killefer's withdrawal as Obama's chief performance officer, a new post in the administration. Officials said privately the reason for Killefer's withdrawal was unspecified tax issues. The much-touted post was designed to scrub the federal budget.

CNN's Lisa Desjardins, Candy Crowley and Kristi Keck contributed to this report.

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(CNN)  -- Be bold! Think big! Barack Obama wants to do just that. An $800 billion economic stimulus plan. Three million jobs. Health care reform. A restructured automobile industry.

Obama's popularity with voters will win him influence with political opponents.

Obama won the biggest Democratic majority for president in 44 years. His party made big gains in Congress. Democrats now have a majority of nearly 60 percent in both the House and Senate. President Obama's got a mandate. And a majority. What's to stop him?

Just this: the U.S. system of government. It is set up to make it difficult to get things done.

The Constitution was written 222 years ago by men who didn't trust government. They had just waged a revolution against a king. To the founders of the American republic, strong government meant despotism.

So they set up a system with an elaborate separation of powers. The idea was to ensure weak government.

The dirty little secret of American government is that it was designed not to work very well.

As president after president has discovered, there are innumerable ways opponents can stop measures from getting passed, even if the president's party holds a majority in Congress.

The Senate has its own rule that's not in the Constitution requiring a super-majority of 60 Senate votes to control the agenda.

A minority of 41 senators can "filibuster'' a measure and prevent it from coming up for a vote. How many votes will Republicans have in the Senate? 41 or 42, depending on the outcome in Minnesota where ballots are still being counted.

Presidents often have problems holding their own party together. That's because members of Congress are elected by local constituencies and they are expected to represent local interests.

American politicians are independent political entrepreneurs. They are not foot-soldiers of a party.

When Bill Clinton first became president, he had a solid Democratic majority in Congress. But he could not get his health care reform plan passed.

After an intense advertising campaign by opponents, many Americans were worried that the Clintons were planning a government takeover of the health care system. The Clinton plan failed, and within two years, Democrats lost their majority in Congress.

One-party control didn't work any better for George W. Bush. Bush had trouble getting what he wanted -- notably, immigration reform -- from a Republican Congress. Republicans lost their majority in Congress in 2006.

But here's another dirty little secret of American government: it often does work. Very well in fact.

Under the right conditions, barriers fall away and things get done, sometimes with amazing speed and efficiency.

What are the right conditions? An overwhelming sense of public urgency. That sense of urgency certainly existed after 9/11, when Congress quickly passed the Patriot Act.

Getting anything big done in American government requires a sense of crisis. That's why politicians in the U.S. are always declaring crises -- a drug crisis, an education crisis, an environmental crisis. Or they're trying to rally the country to fight a war on something -- a war on poverty, a war on crime.

If the public urgency is not authentic, however, opponents won't have much trouble stopping things from happening.

Obama certainly takes office at a time of crisis, just as Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt did.

Like them, he has the opportunity to transform American government. Members of Congress who try to block President Obama's program may find themselves in political trouble.

Because there is yet another dirty little secret of American government: the United States is the most populist democracy in the world.

Here, the people rule.

When the people want something, they will get it, whether it's the death penalty or gun rights or lower taxes.

Why doesn't the United States have a metric system or dollar coins like other countries? Because the people won't use them.

Obama's popularity is soaring right now. When a president is popular, he has clout.

Everyone wants to be on his side, even members of the opposition party. They're in business for themselves, and supporting a popular president is good for business. Standing in his way could drive them out of business.

American government is not an efficient, well-oiled machine. It was never designed to be. It has to be lubricated by public pressure.

If the people are shouting "Do something!'' -- as they are right now -- then something will happen. Even if it means a lot more spending and a lot more government.

The people reserve one key right: they will let the government know, rather quickly, whether or not it's working.

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Washington (CNN) -- I was in the building at Fort Hood, Texas, in June where 43 people were shot this week.

I was sent to Fort Hood along with CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr and videographer Phil Littleton. During our visit, we were in and out of several buildings. One of them is now a crime scene, a killing ground in the heart of one of America's largest military installations.

Col. Ben Danner was our public affairs escort. When I called him Thursday, Danner told me the shooting happened at the Soldier Readiness Center that we had visited during our trip. The purpose of our visit was to learn how Fort Hood was helping soldiers cope with stress and mental health problems. It was a high priority for the commanders there.

I grabbed the tape and disks with the video from our trip and cued up the video of the center.

It was just as I remembered -- a low, brick building. There was one main entrance. A sergeant/nurse was directing traffic as people constantly moved in and out. Once inside, the space was about the size of a basketball court. And there were lines, lines of soldiers everywhere. The lines to our right were about half a dozen soldiers deep. Those folks were standing.

To the left, about 60 or so soldiers were waiting in another line. They got to sit in metal folding chairs. But as the line moved, they moved from chair to chair. I don't think any of them got to sit in the same chair more than 30 seconds. The place looked like the Department of Motor Vehicles at lunchtime on the last Friday of the month. Only everybody was in Army camouflage fatigues.

Beyond those lines were cubicles, each one with a least one line leading into it. All these soldiers were getting paperwork stamped or signed. Or they were undergoing routine medical examinations. One area was just for vaccinations. Everyone got poked with a needle at least once.

Everything was done out in the open, with only cubicle walls to keep soldiers in one line from seeing what soldiers in the other line were going through.

I was able to wander around and watch, while Barbara talked to the top officers and Phil took video of all the goings on.

I remember the only place where someone could get privacy was way in the back, a few small offices with walls and a door that could be closed. I was told that's where soldiers would be taken if a routine mental health exam indicated a more thorough one might be needed.

What I don't remember was a back door. There may have been one. I probably missed it. But the only door I remember is the one where the sergeant/nurse was directing traffic. And I've been thinking about her as the details of the shootings emerged.

The sergeant/nurse was a no-nonsense woman. She'd greet everyone just as they walked in (first making sure they removed their hats). If they had the right paperwork, she sent them to the first of what would be many lines. If they didn't have the right paperwork, she'd turn them around and send them out to get it.

And when the soldiers had gone through all the lines, there was to be no loitering by that door. She'd send them on their way.

I don't remember her exact rank. But I know she was a nurse; I asked her because she reminded me of my sister who is a nurse and also skilled at "running the show." After we were done in June, I went to her and told her that while there were plenty of captains, majors and colonels around, I could tell this was her facility. I was grateful she let us take pictures inside there that day. She gave me a quick smile and went right back to work.

As I write this, I worry about that sergeant/nurse. Since I don't remember her name, I may never know if she was there when the horror erupted. If she was working, I'm sure she would have stopped the gunman, asking him why he was there. If he was holding two guns, he may not have been able to remove his cap. She may not have had enough time to say something. I hope she did not become his first victim. Maybe she's safe and sound, at home with her loved ones.

But 43 others are not safe and sound. And all over the country, people with friends and family Army are worried about their loved ones. Was he or she in that building, stuck in line when the shooting began?

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text: were

text: in

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text: out

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text: buildings

text: One

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text: top

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text: sergeant

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question: What did the visit focus upon?

answer: learn how Fort Hood was helping soldiers cope with stress and mental health problems.

text: learn how Fort Hood was helping soldiers cope with stress and mental health problems.


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CAMEMBERT, France (CNN) -- We're up in the north central part of France -- Normandy -- to see what's happening with French cheese. Cheese lovers will be happy to know, just about nothing, at least as far as the traditional cheeses are concerned.

Cheese from the Camembert region now carries the same cachet as a chateau label for wine.

But for the milk industry in general, it's another story. It has now a larger annual turnover than the steel industry in France (which admittedly is in decline.)

Somehow the French have figured a way to export dairy products to people who already have cows and their own dairy industries-- to the tune of nearly â¬4 billion ($6 billion) per year.

CNN spoke to a few of the people who do just that everyday and who are part of the changing face of France.

Philippe Meslon, the mayor of Saint-Loup de Fribois and the administrator of the Saint-Loup cheese works says: "A camembert not made out of raw milk is like making love without sex.

"A Frenchman is someone who cultivates with modern evolution his past. It's someone who protects moral values, cultural values and artistic values, and when I say cultural values I would include camembert."

Meslon and small cheese makers like Francois Durand, who has 40 cows, have struggled and won the right to an Appelation d'Origine Controllee -- the mark AOC for their "Camembert de Normandie" which carries the same cachet as a chateau label for wine.

For Durand making cheese is about not cutting corners.

"You have to have the passion," he says.  "Yes it's difficult because it means a lot of work. We make it all by hand. I do believe it is important because the cheese is an emblem of France. It is a gastronomic emblem."

Still some small cheesemakers have been driven out of business and the taste and smell of their particular cheeses are lost to the world forever.

For Michel Delorme it was a combination of new, more stringent rules and his age that led him to quit producing his handmade Camemberts.

Michel Delorme: "It's more and more complicated for those who stay in the business. They must hold out! Yes I miss the cheese a little. That's true. But I've kept my souvenirs, you see I've kept my old milk cans so I can stay in the spirit of Camembert!"

Despite those who've quit, the actual number of the variety of cheeses in France is growing. At the last cheese census more than 1,000 different kinds of cheeses were made here.

The milk industry is no small cheese in France, thanks to the efforts of people like Philippe Jachnik who travels the world endlessly promoting milk products, which these days include protein supplements and milk derivatives that can go into all sorts of processed food.

Jachnik, who works for the milk marketing consortium, says: "I really would say I am selling the French approach to milk. We EAT a lot of milk. We DRINK a lot of water, wine, beer and coffee. But drinking milk is not a big business here.

"France has developed technological and marketing knowledge about adding value to a raw material-- milk. I have been traveling for 40 years all around the world and I feel so welcome. When you are French and you demonstrate that being French you can listen to others, people are interested in knowing about this country, about its people, about the way of life here."

Jachnik must be doing a good job as it's not just abroad that the French are selling more milk products-- cheese consumption in France has doubled from 12 to 24 kilos per person per year.

It seems there's no curding their enthusiasm ...  E-mail to a friend

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question: what is the number of cheeses in france

answer: s more than 1,00

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question: Which industry is booming in France?

answer: milk

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- World War II didn't just divide the world. It also divided four brothers.

Ken (left) and Harry Akune served in the U.S. military during World War II.

Not long after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Harry and Ken Akune were sent to live in an internment camp in Amache, Colorado. When the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service came to their camp to recruit Japanese-speaking volunteers as interpreters, they joined so they could prove their loyalty to their country.

Across the world in Japan, their father Ichiro was raising the rest of his large family -- which had returned to his home country after the death of his wife -- in a fishing village, Kagoshima, on the island of Kyushu. The youngest brothers, Saburo and Shiro, were just teenagers when they were drafted into the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The brothers, four of the Akunes' nine children, had all been born or raised in the United States; Ichiro Akune owned a grocery business before moving back to Japan. Harry and Ken had been sent back to America to work and earn money for the family.  Watch how brother fought brother during the war Â»

Harry and Ken graduated from language school in 1942 and were dispatched to the Pacific Theater. Ken served in Burma at the Office of War Information. His job was trying to create propaganda to persuade the Japanese to surrender rather than sacrifice their lives on the battlefield. Harry served in New Guinea and the Philippines.

His ethnicity didn't endear him to some of his colleagues.

"I had an intelligence officer who disliked me," Harry recalled. Before a parachute jump onto the island of Corregidor with the 503rd Paratroopers late in the war, the officer stripped Harry of all of his gear, including his weapon. "I got onto the airplane with only my parachute. A soldier took pity on me and helped find a rifle and one clip," he said.

He survived, but many of his fellow soldiers did not. Twenty percent of them lost their lives just on the jump because of the jagged terrain and enemy fire. iReport.com: What did you do in the war?

His work was heroic. Harry's interrogation of prisoners and translation of captured documents revealed a Japanese occupation force of over 5,000, which vastly outnumbered the American forces. "My information helped reduce casualties," he said.

Most of the Japanese soldiers chose death over what they perceived as dishonor. Harry says only 22 were captured, with the rest dying in combat or suicide attacks -- and they often weren't satisfied with dying alone. At one point, with Harry's back turned, a prisoner jumped him and tried to kill him. Harry recalls the incident vividly.

"My guard beat him with his gun. It seemed like this prisoner was clinging to me for dear life," he said. "That feeling I have never lost. Even though he was the enemy, to see him die the way he did, affected me."

The Japan-based Akune brothers saw death from the other perspective, as part of the war effort. Saburo became a spotter for kamikazes, known for their suicide dive-bomb missions on Allied ships. Shiro, just 15, served at Sasebo, a naval base, helping to orient new recruits. He remembers American Grumman torpedo planes flying into the harbor.

"Bap, bap, bap ... ships going down ... we just watching! We cannot do anything!" he remembered.

After the war, the Akune brothers discovered they served against each other, leading to ill feelings on both sides. Harry and Ken, now in Japan as members of the Allied Prisoner of War Recovery Team, joined Saburo and Shiro at a family reunion in Kagoshima.

"When we first met, the topic of the war came up. Both sides were saying their side was right," Ken said. "Saburo and Shiro got really hot and stood up, they wanted to fight us."

"The propaganda situation in Japan was very extreme," Shiro said. "The elders told you what you should do is revere the emperor like a god, and if you didn't abide by it, you were physically harmed."

It took the intercession of their father to stop the familial battle. "Shut up," the elder Akune said. "The war is over."

All four brothers ended up in the United States, with Shiro -- ironically -- serving as an American GI in Korea. Saburo died several years ago, but Shiro, Harry and Ken continue to live in Southern California. Ken still volunteers full time with the "Go For Broke" National Education Center, which preserves the memory of Japanese-American soldiers who served the United States in World War II.

Harry says his military service helped him identify as an American. "The benefit of going to war for the United States helped me manage myself not as a Japanese-American, but more like an American. I feel very happy I was able to do that," he said.

But he holds nothing against the two brothers who fought for the other side.

"They were in Japan, educated there. It's only right to be loyal to the Japanese force," he said.

"I feel like they were like any other Japanese and we were like any other American. Two sides had their ideas, and there was a clash," he said. "Everything worked out. All four of us were able to survive without having to be casualties of the war."

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Fifteen years after his death, and after his family fought a very long bureaucratic battle with the government, Enrique Valdez's name was added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Rick Valdez looks at his father's name on the Wall on Monday.

Valdez was a Marine gunnery sergeant wounded by shrapnel in August 1969, combat that left him a quadriplegic.

Since his death in 1994, his family has been waiting for the Defense Department to answer their requests that Valdez be included on "The Wall."

On Memorial Day, his family finally got their wish, as they watched his name officially added to "The Wall."

His name was added to the registry after the Department of Defense declared he was eligible because he died from his war injuries.

Rick Valdez was 7 when his father was deployed to Vietnam.

"The night he had to go to the bus station for his second tour of duty, that was the last time I saw him walking," the son recalled.

"The next time we saw him was at the Veterans Administration hospital in Long Beach [California], after they shipped him home," he said.

The Marine was 32.

"There are people that are worse off than I was," Tina Valdez recalled his father always saying. "I enlisted, and I served. I knew what I was getting into. And if this is the worst that could happen to me, well then, so be it."

When notification came weeks ago from the Defense Department that Valdez's name would be added to the Wall, there was no explanation with it.

Valdez's family previously thought since he hadn't been killed during war, Enrique Valdez couldn't be on the wall.

Comrades and others told the family that he could be added to "The Wall "as long as we could show that his death was a result of his [war] injuries," said daughter Tina Valdez.

"And when my father passed away, they put it on the death certificate, long before we even knew that this was a possibility."

Now, they couldn't be more thrilled that it's not a possibility anymore -- it's a reality -- though they don't have an explanation for why the Defense Department finally notified them.

"What changed?" his daughter Tina Valdez asked. "I've been sending [the Defense Department] the same information for 14 years. Why all of a sudden is it different now?"

But when she saw the fresh lettering earlier this month on Panel 17, she felt that an explanation didn't matter as much anymore.

"It's OK, because his name is here," she said.  Watch Gunnery Sgt. Valdez's family at the Memorial Â»

Enrique Valdez joins 58,260 other names listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and his is the only name added this year under 1969, for combat deaths that year or later deaths resulting  from injuries sustained in combat that year.

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question: Where was the name added?

answer: Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

text: Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

question: Where is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

answer: WASHINGTON

text: WASHINGTON

question: When did Valdez receive his wounds

answer: August 1969,

text: August 1969,

question: who was added to Vietnam Veterans Memorial

answer: Enrique Valdez's

text: Enrique Valdez's

question: Whose name was it?

answer: Enrique Valdez's

text: Enrique Valdez's

question: when did Valdez die

answer: 1994,

question: Whose has been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

answer: Enrique Valdez's

text: Enrique Valdez's

question: When did he die?

answer: 1994,