Something most folks never think about....
Those guys are eternally young...
They still look the same, and their voices haven't changed.
Their laugh is unchanged, their cries for help remain unchanged, their final calling calling out in vain to their mothers still rings true in a voice their mothers would recognize...
One need only GO TO THAT WALL, in the still and quiet of predawn......place your hands on the wall and call to those you know.
They come.....they ALWAYS come to welcome you, and bitch a little that it's been too long since you last came....
It is such a overwhelming experience -- that always bring such an flush of tears that you'll see a lot of old men "blowing the noses" and "wiping their glasses" to avoid the embarrassment of being seen...
Every veteran, who has a brother's name on that wall and even those who were blessed to come home with their unit intact -- should visit... They expect you....they will welcome you.....and you will experience a level of contact with our lost brothers that is impossible to describe...
If at all possible --- go.
Well said , river rat.
Yes, they do.