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To: battlegearboat
Didn't you take a picture?

I did, and there I was, right in there with several of the folks I'd grown up with or served with ~ they were kind of clustered there ~ time dilation effect I'd imagine.

And when I saw that picture I can tell you my knees turned to water, and I was faint, and my heart doubled its normal rate and there was a throbbing in my temples.

Later on other folks showed me their pictures, and there they were ~ right there on the wall.

5 posted on 11/03/2007 5:24:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
I haven't made the visit yet.

I've seen the Moving Wall in Texas and Oklahoma and made some rubbings of my fallen shipmates.

I've visited my great grandfather's name on a Vicksburg monument several times.

I take comfort in the thought that some remote descendent of mine will one day, far in the future, point me out to a friend and tell him/her that I did my duty in Vietnam and to my country and the Navy.

7 posted on 11/03/2007 5:36:53 PM PDT by battlegearboat
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