Places: DC-Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

  

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall-13' (Washington West) (38.890963, -77.0476574)
5 Henry Bacon Dr NW, Washington, DC 20002

Description : Trips : References : Pictures 


Description:

This plain black slack of stone with names etched in it has the power to elicit emotions, even with those who did not serve. So much lost for so little gain. Maybe because this was the war of my generation, but there is a strong attachment to this wall.

Or maybe because we know people whose lives were interrupted and cut short because of the war.

 

 Trips:

• March 21, 2023 - Visited this memorial on our initial walking tour of the National Mall. Sherri was able to find a brother of a friend as well as relative.
  
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References:

• NPS
• Wikipedia
• Department of Defense
• National Parks Foundation
• Wall of Faces
• Washington DC tourist site
• DC By Foot
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Pictures:

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  March 21, 2023 - Soliders
  

  
  

  

  March 21, 2023 - The Wall
  

  
  

  

  March 21, 2023 - The Names