To all who believe that their name is worthy of being displayed prominently on a piece of furniture in a Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, park and who are willing to pay to have their name placed there, please consider the cost paid by each of the recipients of one of the Stars on the Wall to be honored and remembered.

While the names associated with some of the Stars on the Wall are identified in the Book of Honor, the names of those who must forever remain secret even in death are left blank beside their star in the Book.

The annual memorial ceremony is attended by hundreds of employees, retirees, and family members and friends of those who died in service with the CIA.  It is a simple commemoration of lives given freely and often anonymously in “unsurpassable devotion to duty and country.”