On another note... I had a different sort of experience on my drive home tonight...
It was just about sunset, and there's this cemetery that I drive by between there and here... and I noticed that there were hundreds -- and I mean hundreds, maybe well more than a thousand or far more -- full size American flags posted on the grounds of the cemetery. It really grabbed me, and I pulled in to have a look.
I drove in the long entry way amid these hundreds of flags, and stopped in a sort of central area where they have a set of tall flagpoles. On the flagpoles where the US flag, a WA state flag and a POW/MIA flag, and all around the base was a really gorgeous marble memorial to US Military losses in combat. They had the names of all of the local veterans engraved there.
It was really something remarkable, and it really left me speechless. I've driven by there literally thousands of times and never stopped. I glad I did.