Another moving sight. The memorial in remembrance to the Vietnam conflict. A simple black marble wall cut into the bank, tapering from one end from the direction of the Lincoln monument to a right angle then back out up towards the Washington monument. I think it 35,000 names, one for every soldier killed or lost, engraved in the wall in the order they fell.
There was a park police ranger on hand to make a rubbing of a name for any relative who comes and locates their loved ones name in one of the big listing books located at one end. Books list location as tablet, and line. (Ie West 36, line 28) No Hoads, only Hoadley's, but several Connor's.
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