"Hallowed ground"
Took me ten years to get up the courage to finally go. The Wall was dedicated in 1982 and in 1992 at the tenth anniversary "reunion" my wife and made the trip to D.C. and spent four days there in Washington. Most moving and "cleansing" experience in my life! Been back every year since then except one (2001) and plan to go back every year I'm still breathing. My sister moved back to the D.C. area in 1994 (she lives in Arlington, VA about three blocks SW of the National Cemetary behind FT. Myer) and we visit her at least once per year.
Best time to go? At daybreak when the sun comes up behind you while facing the Wall. And, you'll be able to find a parking place near by at this time fairly easy.
Fourteen names on that Wall are either close, personal friends, old schoolmates, brothers-in-arms (several of who were KIA the night I got wounded) and ALL are "forever young" and will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN! God Bless the all.
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Gimpy
"MUD GRUNT/RIVERINE"
"I ain't no fortunate son"--CCR
"We have shared the incommunicable experience of war..........We have felt - we still feel - the passion of life to its top.........In our youth our hearts were touched with fire"
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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