That knowledge helps preserve the legacy of service members who died, Tetz said. And for him, the errors don’t undermine the sheer power of 58,000 names etched in granite. “They’re not just names,” he ...

When locals scrubbed it clean, they saw the words "Tsunami Kinen-seki" (Tsunami memorial stone) etched into it. The boulder, weighing 32 tons, had been washed ashore from the mouth of a river by ...