On CBS's Sunday Morning today was a piece on the Honor Flight organization that started in Hendersonville, North Carolina. They transport those elderly veterans who still live to see the WWII Memorial in D.C.
My father was a WWII veteran who died over thirty years ago. He took me to the memorial in lower Manhattan where the names of the war dead were inscribed on large stone walls. A lot of large stone walls. The fact that this monument was in his own town was good enough for him. He never spoke about the need for one in D.C. He didn't need it but this generation and generations to come do so they don't forget.
Locally in Massachusetts there are memorials in each of the over 300 towns. The most prominent is always the Civil War memorial. This is because so many young men from the Commonwealth died in bloody that war. In many, if not most, there is a standing statue of a soldier leaning on his rifle. He is looking off into the distance, alway south, keeping guard.
How soon will the ones for Iraq start looking for space?
We can't forget.
We won't forget the dead and the still living veterans. What I don't want is a an honor wall for Iraq as large as that for the WWII or the VietNam veterans.
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My father was a WWII veteran who died over thirty years ago. He took me to the memorial in lower Manhattan where the names of the war dead were inscribed on large stone walls. A lot of large stone walls. The fact that this monument was in his own town was good enough for him. He never spoke about the need for one in D.C. He didn't need it but this generation and generations to come do so they don't forget.
Locally in Massachusetts there are memorials in each of the over 300 towns. The most prominent is always the Civil War memorial. This is because so many young men from the Commonwealth died in bloody that war. In many, if not most, there is a standing statue of a soldier leaning on his rifle. He is looking off into the distance, alway south, keeping guard.How soon will the ones for Iraq start looking for space?
We can't forget.
We won't forget the dead and the still living veterans. What I don't want is a an honor wall for Iraq as large as that for the WWII or the VietNam veterans.
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