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Originally Posted by MaidenCove07
Thank you so much for bringing this important dedication and part of our military history to the Lakes Region for others to see and feel...
The more people that see this memorial, the more who can understand the pain of those who served and survived as well as those left behind.
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I can't recommend enough that people see this. I saw the actual Vietnam Wall in Washington quite a few years ago. It's starkly moving. Seeing people making rubbings of names, or leaving a rose by one is gripping, and brings home the reality of what they lost. I felt the same at Arlington later that day. Busses drove in and most of the people who got off made their way over towards the Kennedy grave; a small band, however, went in another direction, to get the location of graves of their own loved ones. Many were elderly. Now I'm old, and especially appreciate what has been said about all the war dead: "They gave up all their tomorrows for my today". It brings one to tears...and it should.