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    Vietnam Veterans Memorial

    I subscribe to daily emails from history.com called "This Day In History" and this was in my inbox this morning, re this day, November 13, in 1982.

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    Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington after a march to its site by thousands of veterans of the conflict. The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank, as was common in other memorials.

    The designer of the memorial was Maya Lin, a Yale University architecture student who entered a nationwide competition to create a design for the monument. Lin, born in Ohio in 1959, was the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Many veterans' groups were opposed to Lin's winning design, which lacked a standard memorial's heroic statues and stirring words. However, a remarkable shift in public opinion occurred in the months after the memorial's dedication. Veterans and families of the dead walked the black reflective wall, seeking the names of their loved ones killed in the conflict. Once the name was located, visitors often made an etching or left a private offering, from notes and flowers to dog tags and cans of beer.
    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial soon became one of the most visited memorials in the nation's capital. A Smithsonian Institution director called it "a community of feelings, almost a sacred precinct," and a veteran declared that "it's the parade we never got." "The Wall" drew together both those who fought and those who marched against the war and served to promote national healing a decade after the divisive conflict's end.

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    One of the biggest regrets I have about the Nam is that I do not know the "real" names of my best bud's that were wasted, Wop, Egg and Cheese. Therefore, I can not look up their names.

    But, I do see them whenever I look at that wall. Hell, I see them every day without the wall. They're never forgotten, they live on within me.

    The wall is awesome, I first saw it back in 86.


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    In The Evening of My Mind I always go back...scattered here & there a Face a Rank a tidbit of Conversation sometimes the Face matches what my mind throws @ Me I was there @ the Dedication it was a beautiful but Sad day went back numerous times as I shall until I can no longer do so. I've had plenty ofAcquaintances in my life since So Called friends ehhh you can have Em...I was very fortunate as a Young Man 2 be able 2 Walk Point 4 Men I barely knew @ the Time it was an Honor 2 do what not many other Marines wanted 2 do & O fix it well as I shall try 2 better whats left of My Life now as O know they would want Me 2 Do...All in All of the names & Faces I do remember I've managed 2 trace 23 Names off that Piece of Stone but they are Burnt in my Mind as it were Yesterday that I last saw them GodBless You Go Easy Semper Fi


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