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Vietnam Memorial
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I went about 10 years ago, there are 11 names on the wall from my unit including a MOH James Fous. Glad I went but brought back a lot a bad memories.. E Co 4/47 9th Div. 67-68
Went there years back to visit a highschool buddy Auburn Foreman, lance corporal 3 Rd Marines, left with a saddened heart, he was killed by friendly fire. He was a small guy that feared nothing or anyone. A red headed chainsaw when he had to be.
Never Been but i know the faces of my two friends that are forever young there. RIP Laney and Bull
Showed a photo of the wall once to my father. There was a flower arrangement in the design of the 1st Cav patch. Another of the very few times he ever teared up. Three tours, two with the Cav.
A few years back the traveling wall came to the VA Hospital here in Dublin Ga, very humbling......I worked nights and there was someone at the wall all night as the names were read.....old soldiers and young soldiers came at all hours to pay their respects. Makes me proud to be an American soldier and see the respect given to those who fell....
I haven’t been to the original Wall but I rode with the Patriot Guard and other bikers in a motorcycle escort of about 250-300 bikers to bring the half sized traveling Vietnam Wall to Newnan and then again when it was moved to downtown Atlanta. I also rode with with them and a bunch of other dudes to Ft. Benning for the dedication of their permanent half sized Vietnam Wall. My wife’s uncle Jerry is on that wall, a Sgt. in the Army who got killed just hours before he was supposed to board a helicopter and start making his way back home to Newnan. My wife was spending the night with her grandparents when the Soldiers came that night, said she’d never forget how her grandma just wailed for hours after opening the door and seeing those Soldiers standing there. There was only one reason they would be at her door, Jerry was her youngest child…
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I took my family about 10years ago, went in the day time then went at night. My family enjoyed it.
There is or was a traveling Wall that came through Toccoa several years ago. Small replica of part of the wall on a trailer. There was an honor guard in his dress blues like at the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier that rides at the rear of the trailer. They built a support for him so he doesn't sway during starts and stops. We pulled over to the side of the road and stopped when I realized what it was.
What I try to bear in mind, and pass on to my children, is that every name on that wall was a human being whose life was shortened in defense of what this country (used to) believe in. Many towns have a remembrance monument or plaque with some names going back to the civil war. Each one of those names was a real person, with hopes and dreams, virtues and vices. That's a sobering thought. Or, at least, it should be.
What I try to bear in mind, and pass on to my children, is that every name on that wall was a human being whose life was shortened in defense of what this country (used to) believe in. Many towns have a remembrance monument or plaque with some names going back to the civil war. Each one of those names was a real person, with hopes and dreams, virtues and vices. That's a sobering thought. Or, at least, it should be.
