Had the traveling vietnam memorial wall pass through Hot Springs this weekend, went today with the wife and baby. kept my sunglasses on the whole time. actually had lots of memorials with it, including the most recent conflicts. read some names I was familiar with and knew, was pretty hard. when I looked at the desert storm billboard I thought of our own northern Dave.
I have been to the original in DC, and after serving, this one was beyond words. as I walked I read names and names and names. some folks were there and just didn't know or appreciate the magnitude, I felt sorry for them. every line was families who would never be whole again, unspoken valor that no one knows. very powerful experience to say the least. makes a man thankful.
Beware of any old man in a profession where one usually dies young.
