A team of scientists has been hired to inspect newly discovered vertical cracks in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in D.C., the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund announced.
Geophysicists Dorothy Richter and Gene Simmons will be at the site today to continue their evaluation and hope to release a report in a few weeks.
It's possible heat is to blame for the cracks, but Richter told The Washington Post the experts "do not know with certainty" what caused them. Most are small, and the Memorial Fund says they're not an immediate threat to the memorial.
In fact, as the Post points out, the wall has a history of cracks that dates back to 1984, just two years after it was opened to the public. Those cracks were horizontal, and in 1986, two of the wall's 144 slabs were taken out and studied.
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