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The Memorial Wall is a memorial at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Virginia. It honors CIA employees who died in the line of service.〔"(The Stars on the Wall )." Central Intelligence Agency 24 April 2008.〕 ==Memorial== The Memorial Wall is located in the Original Headquarters Building lobby on the north wall. There are 113 stars carved into the white Alabama marble wall, each one representing an employee who died in the line of service.〔 Paramilitary officers of the CIA's Special Activities Division comprise the majority of those memorialized.〔Gup, Ted (2000). ''The Book of Honor: Cover Lives and Classified Deaths at the CIA.''〕 A black Moroccan goatskin-bound book, called the "Book of Honor," sits in a steel frame beneath the stars, its "slender case jutting out from the wall just below the field of stars," and is "framed in stainless steel and topped by an inch-thick plate of glass."〔Gup, Ted. "(Star Agents: The anonymous stars in the CIA's Book of Honor memorialize covert operatives lost in the field )." ''Washington Post'' 7 September 1997.〕 Inside it shows the stars, arranged by year of death and, when possible, lists the names of employees who died in CIA service alongside them.〔〔 The identities of the unnamed stars remain secret, even in death.〔 In 1997, there were 70 stars, 29 of which had names.〔 There were 79 stars in 2002, 〔"(CIA Honors Slain Agency Officers at Annual Ceremony )." Central Intelligence Agency 31 May 2002.〕 83 in 2004,〔"(CIA Remembers Employees Killed in the Line of Duty )." Central Intelligence Agency 21 May 2004,〕 90 in 2009,〔"()." Central Intelligence Agency 1 June 2009.〕 107 in 2013,〔(Remembering CIA's Heroes: Barbara A. Robbins )〕 111 in 2014〔 and 113 in 2015. 80 of the 113 entries in the book contain names,〔(Remembering CIA's Heroes: William F. Buckley )〕 while the other employees are represented only by a gold star followed by a blank space.〔(CIA discloses names of 15 killed in line of duty )〕 The Wall bears the inscription IN HONOR OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY in gold block letters.〔 The Wall is flanked by the flag of the United States on the left and a flag bearing the CIA seal on the right.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CIA Memorial Wall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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