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judo, last summer while having lunch in my favorite pizza shop 2 marines in full dress uniform entered, so i struck up a chit chat, they explained they were in town for .. well, a ceremony, minutes later two more marines walked in followed by two additional, we all spoke for a while but i had to go, getting up from my table with a wink and a tilted nod towards the young men john the shops owner knew what i ment, i returned the next day to pay my bill, man can 6 young marines eat!,.. when will more folks realize they are all our children?
 
Good for you! You certainly are a gentleman and a scholar. I would hope that I could do the same.
 
While I'm in the DC area this month We will be taking the teenagers for the first trip into the city even though they have been in the area numerous times.
I will be visiting the Vietnam memorial ,Top on my list. I think I will need a full box of tissues for that!
 
Won't go there. Have seen the "traveling" version, know several of those names personally. Too much grief. Too many folks in grief around it. I'd come unglued. I'm glad it was built but it'll remain "unvisited" by me.
 
judo, an interesting side note, first time i drove my bj7 to johns pizza shop he ripped off his apron jumped in my car a just said "lets go, take me for a ride", though id never known it before johns last name is "healey", during our drive he explained the lineage, he is a d.healey relative, go figah! :yesnod:
 
While I was in active duty I went to the memorial wiht my dad and his friend Hank, both Nam vets. The wall was something to see but it didn't have the effect that the statue of the 3 soldiers had. The faces and the blank look in their eyes that are looking into the wall as if to find their own names had all 3 of us unglued. Now with 2 mideast combat tours under my belt I think I know how they felt. Just writing about that day brought back those same feelings.
 
Don_R said:
While I was in active duty I went to the memorial wiht my dad and his friend Hank, both Nam vets. The wall was something to see but it didn't have the effect that the statue of the 3 soldiers had. The faces and the blank look in their eyes that are looking into the wall as if to find their own names had all 3 of us unglued. Now with 2 mideast combat tours under my belt I think I know how they felt. Just writing about that day brought back those same feelings.
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Here is a really neat website that shows a nighttime panorama view from the spot where the three soldiers statue is located. My wife and I visited the memorial last August. I don't think I had any tears left in me by the time we made it through. The birthday cards affected me the most.
 
DNK said:
While I'm in the DC area this month We will be taking the teenagers for the first trip into the city even though they have been in the area numerous times.
I will be visiting the Vietnam memorial ,Top on my list. I think I will need a full box of tissues for that!
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While there, if you are in DC on a Tues. afternoon, The USMC Drum & Bugle Corps performs a parade (3:00pm & free)at the Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington Cemetery and on Friday evenings they perform the Evening Parade at the 8th & I street barracks! Either performance is a special event to enjoy!! (ps: The 6' 5" soprano bugle is my son Nick!) :thumbsup:
 
DrEntropy said:
Won't go there. Have seen the "traveling" version, know several of those names personally. Too much grief. Too many folks in grief around it. I'd come unglued. I'm glad it was built but it'll remain "unvisited" by me.
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I'm with you, Doc....been to the Wall once....don't think I'll go again...those names had finally left my head & then there they were again....
 
So let me get this straight.
For you veterans of it ,is it something that didn't need to be built for you guys?

Or is it something that had to be built for the people who were not there and so we don't forget you guys?
 
Some guys make it their life cause. Others find the emotion of visiting too bad & a visit usually ends up with recurring nightmares. Others come & go with no emotional connection.

I think it was erected to help the Nation, as individuals, get on with business as usual.
 
Guess I'm in the same mold as Doc and Tony.. The traveling wall came to Pearl Harbor once. I went down to it. Could only spend a few minutes before I just couldn't take it any more....


Maybe in a few decades, but not now nor for the forseeable future...

USMC 65-69, In country first at Chu Lai in 66, then north to Magic Mountain(DaNang) left on a stretcher after 5 May 68...

I felt I knew what I was doing and my presence there could save some other mothers son. But when the AK-47 hits you from behind....
 
..or the incoming artillery hits indiscriminatorily....followed by hand-to-hand with the little guys (being politically correct) broached the wire!
 
Another thing is, I think a lot of us feel it was an attempt at doing the right thing, but we had our hands tied behind our backs. Whole thing was terrible.

I better sit down now. :smirk:
 
Yep, let's not let this thread drift into a political discussion of Vietnam....we're talking in a general tone about The Wall and military tributes to veterans that we all can share.
 
Anthony,

Good for you!I wish stories like that were
commonplace,but they're not.
I also had a chance to visit the Vietnam Memorial
a few years back - it really hit me when I saw some of the
personal items (like a high school yearbook)that were left
there.It would probably be a good thing for young people to
experiance.Maybe they would have more respect for Vets.

- Doug
 
When I am in the DC area, I always visit the Wall, and the Iwo memorial. Those were not my wars, but I do feel the same as the others here. Too many of my friends did not make it back from one conflict or another.

I think memorials like the Wall are good reminders to those that choose not to serve that the price for their freedoms is indeed not free. Something to think about...
 
I guess I'm just an old softy, I choke up every time I see it. It's happening now just thinking about it. Gotta go.
 
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