Subject: The Vietnam Memorial Wall
From: Billy Beck
Date: 6/1/04 8:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Ed Rasimus wrote:

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:31:27 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:

But, the Wall
is black and buried, a depression in the ground symbolizing the
depression of the nation that did not win the war or respect the men
who fought it.

I think you're wrong on this one, Ed. To me the Wall is the most
beautiful and most moving monument anywhere in the world, the only one
I return to, and the only one that ever made me cry.

Dan,

I didn't intend to, but I cried as well. Partly from the memories of
old comrades and partly from the frustration with those who did that
to us.

That Memorial is *always* the top item on my to-do list whenever
I have a spare moment in Washington.

And I've seen it at every hour of the day, but it is never so
powerful as in the middle of the night.


Billy


http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php


I never go to war memorials. I never go to military cemetaries. I just start
bawling. Guess that is just that part of me that is pure coward.



Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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