TOUCH THE WALL

Touch The Wall

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Made of granite, blood sweat and tears,
loss of life in foreign lands
by those people called dear!
Touch The Wall

Reflection of services surpassed
by morals of men of courage
and strength by actions of others
who didn't think
Touch The Wall

See the comrades with tears in their eyes,
with question of who, what went wrong,
and the biggest is why
Touch The Wall

All is past, all is gone
names and memories and
hard fought sorrows,
when you
Touch The Wall

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I don't think I can ever go back.

perhaps no one will notice the absence of my tears in an ocean that has been cried there.

young when they died and that they would never experience some of the good things I got to experience like having a family of their own. And for what? I will never come to grips with that question.

:cry: :patriot: :cry:

I used to live near and work in DC. Of course we occasionally went into town and stopped by the memorial. I'm younger than that generation by 10 years so I didn't know anyone, but It is a very moving experience.

Lines are there regardless of the season or time of day. No one really talks. Everyone is reading, searching for a name: a name they gave, a name they went to school with, a name they served with, a name they were supposed to marry. Some people stick flowers or badges in the wall, between the granite segments and near their special name. Some people take out tracing paper and make a relief scratching of their name, to take home, to remember that they were at the wall, that this nation remembered that their special someone was special to the nation too.

I'm glad the wall is there. It provides an incredible catharsis for those who really need it. I'd like to say that I hope we will never need such memorials again. But human nature being what it is, we will. And I hope that those future memorials mean every bit as much as this one does.

My idea is for George W. Bush to be standing at the wall (in his "Mission Accomplished" suit, perhaps), putting his hand on the wall...



... and the soldiers inside the wall are mooning him, ridiculing him, and giving him the finger.

The title for the re-worked piece would be "aWall."