The Wall

I don't know how many of you have heard of The Wall, or have had the opportunity to visit it. They have a wall in Washington DC with the names of all the people who were killed. They made a traveling wall and it is here for this week. On Saturday it arrived and was escorted into town by 2,500 bikers. They led it to the Walmart parking lot where they had a program. We took the boys down there. They were also followed by one of our local Air Evac helicopters, it was neat to watch there were so many people.

Covin was excited he called it America Day, because there were flags everywhere!

A little tired and Hot.....

We went on Sunday where they had the wall set up.....It was a crazy reality. The wall starts out small and at the bottom there are the dates of when they were killed. At the beginning of the war there were few names, the further you walk there were hundreds killed in a week. It is so sad.

We took Rachel's kids with us, I had a lot of explaining to do for Carlee.

Shaffen's dad fought in the war, so I think this was a different experience for him. He told me that on one of the days his dad took a picture with one of his friends and the friend was killed that same day.

This display also has the names of the people who were killed in the Iraq' War and the names are very current. The last date I saw was for the 8th of March. But we have definitely come a long way. The people being killed are less and less every War. With Iraq' being the least. It is scary to think about all that has happened. But if the opportunity comes around definitely go and see it, it is very sad and many people who you know have stories and most of them don't like to talk about it. I can see why, over 58,000 people died.

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