Posted on 02/16/2010 3:37:29 PM PST by Slump Tester
I haven't seen this posted yet, so here it is:
Viet Nam Veterans Memorial - A Virtual Wall
Wow-someone really went to lot of work!
I got this also. I had a cousin killed. I was only 10 at the time. I looked him up and there was a picture of him, where and how he died and a list of his metals. He got a silver star. I would like to know the story behind that!! My mother said his group was ambushed. 9 died.
That is really cool. Not only names and dates, but branch, rank and medals earned. Kudos to the webmaster.
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Last time I went with my dad to visit the traveling wall he broke down really bad ... took my brother’s and me to get him back to the car ....
The first time I visited “The Wall” I felt considerable emotions and memories - non were positive or inspiring.
On that trip I was accompanied by a Vietnamese Boat Person who had lost most of his family in the war and then finally at sea by pirates. All of his female relatives were raped then killed. He survived by jumping overboard and waited for the Indonesian pirates to finish their business and then leave. I know little about the details as it was to traumatic for him to relate.
That “Wall” was designed to bring out pain, miserable memories and the worst thoughts of Americans about the War.
The WWII memorial brings out the opposite. Pride and Glory of America’s (and the worlds) victory over evil.
It hurts deeply to have one’s war efforts reflected on as dark and a mistake, while all others were looked on with pride and honor.
- and one understands why so many VietNam Vets are afflicted!
None of us considers it a “dark mistake”. What you need to do is go there and find yourself standing in the photo with your buddies’ names, and you understand it all. Here’s a young man I knew. He’ll be eternally youthful in my memories ~ a “new guy” in the Nam, in the Infantry, and he didn’t make a whole month ~ he paid a price you don’t want to pay: http://www.virtualwall.org/ds/SferruzziWL01a.htm
I saw the moving replica of the wall and was depressed for days! It was so sad. Even though I didn’t personally know anyone who’s name was listed, all the people listed on the wall were dead. How horrific. It brought a whole new perspective about war that I had never been exposed to even though my Dad fought in WWII.
Place keeper for later.......
It is for sure a powerful monument
There`s 4 names of guys in my graduating class.
Two that were in my company that died from accidently
going into a mine field
One bro that killed himself when the fragging attempt
with a booby trapped hooch door got himself instead is on
that wall from my company
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