Posted by Blue_Tractor_Man on November 29, 2019 at 06:44:27 from (174.236.143.137):
In Reply to: Re: Vietnam wall posted by muleboss on November 28, 2019 at 08:24:16:
I am only (only!?!) 57. I registered for the draft in 1980. Uncle Dam aparently did not need me. I have been to the Vietnam Memorial probably ten times. I have been to nearly every memorial in Washington DC. In my opinion the Vietnam Memorial is the best memorial in the capitol city. It has the impact of being personal. 50,000 names shows the impact. 50,000 families. 50,000 sets of parents-maybe some parents sacrificed more than one child. Hundreds of thousands of siblings, children, on and on.
If any of you have not seen it I encourage you to go. I first saw it 25 years ago and I observed people tracing names from the wall, leaving stuffed animals and pictures. I saw people in tears. I went again last year and most of that has tapered off.
What I also saw 25 years ago and again last year was people a few hundred feet away at the entrance to the memorial talking and laughing as typical tourists, but when they descended down to the memorial everyone became quiet and reverent. There was no one there to police decorum. No one saying "hush".
I very good friend of mine took his very self-absorbed 13 year old daughter to the memorial. She got the message.
I live near Memphis, TN and am aware that the memorial was inscribed here by Binswanger Glass. That had to be quite an honor to get that contract.
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