Every year, the Brazos Valley Veterans Memorial Board was faced with the expensive addition of new, bronze plaques and structures containing a wall-identification reference to help families find their loved ones' names on the memorial wall. In addition to the expense of these giant, bronze plates, their usability was sorely lacking: to most quickly find one's name, one would have to know the year in which that name was added to the wall.
The physical kiosk shell was professionally painted and refinished by A&M Twin City Paint & Body Shop. The kiosk's overall interface and navigation was designed in Flash by then-local designer Stanton Ware, and the programming and Microsoft Access database back end were developed by BCSWebstudio. The compiled .swf runs as a fullscreen executable a la MultidMedia. As names are added and dedicated each year, updating the database is a simple file-copy operation via USB flash drive.
The dated, bronze plates were removed, and a kiosk and beautiful pavilion containing it, designed by Eric Wivagg, were dedicated in February, 2007.
