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| The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is to the left |
We visited the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday. A large group gathered below the steps, with the Washington Memorial rising high in the distance beyond the reflecting pool. Men and women wearing red shirts imprinted with the words "It's never too late to say thank you" were escorting veterans to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and we walked toward the Wall, only a few hundred yards away.
We moved slowly, stopping frequently as people moved close to search for a name or touch the stone. The sun was shining brightly and our bodies were reflected in the shiny granite, all of us a living memorial to the 58,000 real people whose names are engraved on the wall. Veterans of that war used to seem young; now they are old, almost indistinguishable from the older Korean War vets. We saw a few very elderly veterans of WWII.
It is a solemn, awesome space. Simple, elegant and dignified. And so sad.
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