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http://www.thewall-usa.com/

the three soldiers .... now, I always thought memorials were to those
who died so
how many memorials are there to those who served in WWII?

War Memorials honor all veterans, & the Wall specificlaly is officially
the Veteran's Memorial Wall. There may be a vietnam vet somewhere who
doesn't feel an affinity for the Wall, who does not believe it has
diddly-shit to do with the living, but I've yet to meet him.

As for WWII, the National WWII Memorial is specifically defined as
honoring the 16 million who served as well as the 400,000 thousand who
died AND the millions who supported the war from home.

On the Pittsburg Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the plaque reads in part:

"Welcome home to proud men and women.

Those who served, served
Those who gave all, live in our hearts
Those who are left, continue to give.

As long as we remember
There is still some love left."

Memorial Day itself honors all who served. It may be a special time to
visit the gravesides, but the day is for all who served, but also for all
who supported those who served, living or dead.

The real answser to Watcher's ridiculous assertion that such
commemorations don't exist for Vietnam vets I already corrected with this
long list of Vietnam war memorials:

http://www.vietvet.org/vietmems.htm

And that long list is but a small percentage of the memorials that exist;
this book lists many more, & the book is bargain-priced:
http://www.sandystrait.8k.com/memorial-info.html

There are nearly 400 listed in that book, & no state lacks such memorials.
If you've not time, energy, or physical ability to visit even the nearest
ones, do at least take an e-journey to some of the web pages linked from
the vietvet.org page I provided. If each of us will honor vets even to
that small degree, arguments about how they've never been honored won't
have to sound so damned silly.

So yes, even us peacenik lefties of the Vietnam & Hippy era, who've been
charged with spitting on vets & calling them baby killers, in reality care
a great deal. If only the ****ers & moaners would make an effort beyond
merely assuming!

-paghat the ratgirl

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