[Leica] The Wall

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

And that ends our retrograde political message for the day. Now back to
the Volvo discussion already in progress.



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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
allan yates
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:35 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] The Wall


Clive,
Thank you for your thoughts on the wall.  I have not yet had the
opportunity to see either the traveling wall or the original monument in
D.C., but I will see it some day.  The men and women who died in Vietnam
died fighting for freedom - the freedom of not their families at home in
the U.S., but the freedom of the Vietnamese people. The depth of their
sacrifice and of their charachter is incomprehensible.
 
  It saddens me deeply to know that if the men who sent them would have
had the reslove and integrity of those they sent, the war could have
been over in 3 to 6 months.  Tens of thousands of America's finest could
have been spared.  
 
Let us never forget their sacrifice and their patriotism.  Likewise, let
us never forget or take for granted the sacrifices of the men and women
in uniform who serve today, fighting the war that was started by our
enemies on September 11, 2001 with cowardice and no mercy for their
innocent victims.
 
"AT HOME, MEN AND WOMEN SLEEP IN PEACE UNDER THE BLANKET OF FREEDOM
BECAUSE GOOD MEN AND WOMEN STAND READY TO DO VIOLENCE ON THEIR BEHALF."
(From a placard at U.S. Marine Corps training depot, Parris Island,
S.C.)
 


Clive Moss <chmphoto@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Sonny Carter said the following on 4/15/2004 12:28 PM:

> The traveling version of the Viet Nam Memorial is in Natchitoches, 
> just
> two blocks from my house. This may not be the last you see of it from 
> me.
> 
> http://www.sonc.com/wall1.htm
The first time I saw the original wall I was totally overwhelmed. The 
power of a list of names in incredible.

In Paris (and many other cities, but Paris stands out in my mind) there 
are grand, large monuments to the dead of many conflicts. I find them 
impressive. I do not find them moving in the same way that the wall is 
moving. The monuments glorify war. The wall mourns the victims.

-- 
Clive
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