Posted on 02/12/2021 8:19:13 AM PST by sodpoodle
IMHO Veteran's Day is Every day!
Moving monuments there. Sad they’re in d.c. A location I will never again go to.
8,283 were just 19 years old.
The largest age group, 33,103 were 18 years old.
And this is why I am skeptical of statistics cited on the internet.
Good point. Math is hard for some people.
Their scheduled ETS/PCS dates?
I normally wouldn’t give NBC News a shout out, but about ten years ago they did an amazing documentary called Coming Home. It was about an American soldier who killed an enemy in Vietnam, and he took a picture from him. The picture was of the soldier and his daughter. That picture haunted him for many years. The documentary follows his trip back to Vietnam and his healing. Very, very powerful.
“Moving monuments there”
I don’t care for the design of the Vietnam war memorial.
That gash memorializes the soldiers’ deaths, not their heroic lives.
The gash emphasizes the idea that the war was our government’s tragic mistake rather making the the soldiers that fought in it the center of attention.
Those soldiers deserved to be remembered as more than parts of a mistake.
But it reflects how the country felt after the war so that’s that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_Chance
“Based on an article by Marine Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, this HBO original film tells the story of Strobl’s emotional experience traveling across America as a volunteer escort officer for the body of fallen 19-year-old Marine Chance Phelps. Along the 2004 journey to Phelps’ hometown in Wyoming, Strobl (portrayed by Golden Globe winner Kevin Bacon) witnesses — and is moved by — acts of respect by everyday Americans.”
I’ve got 3 buddies names on that wall. It still pisses me off that there has to be a private company, Wounded Warriors (whom I support), to help Veterans who need help. The VA has never been there for us. Neither has the Federal government.
Sadly yes. The politicians were the mistake. Not those that served. I never cared for the design but like you said there it is and that’s that. Choked me up when we went knowing the outcome and sacrifice made by so many.
Hurts Our Hearts , but Thank you for the posting❤️
“The VA has never been there for us.”
It isn’t recent, either. It’s been this way from its inception. I just read a book, “I’ve Been Only a Shadow,” which mentions, only in passing, how the VA, back in the 1950s or 60s, refused to help him with getting a disability rating. While dying (he had rheumatic fever in the Navy and was denied treatment which damaged his heart), he continued trying to get them to do the right thing. It worked out for the VA, as he died in his early 30s leaving a wife and 4 children, and not being able to work for the last year of his life to support them.
I wonder if Biden in a neverending moments of senality will sign an EO to tear down that wall?
Waiting for Dem’s to paint over it so it doesn’t hurt woke people’s feelings (/sarc).
Bttt.
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