On May 25, 6:33*am, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:15:38 -0400, John H
wrote:



On Sun, 24 May 2009 23:17:23 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Sun, 24 May 2009 21:52:14 -0400, BAR wrote:

Tuesday evenings at the Iwo Jima memorial will again see the Comadant's
Own and the Silent Drill team, now that we are into the summer season.

You know - I've never seen that.

I haven't been to The Wall yet either - don't think I will either.

I didn't visit the wall for many years. Eventually I realized it was
just fear that was keeping me away. I was afraid of what my reaction
might be. Like Eisboch, it took a Rolling Thunder in the early 90's to
get me there.

But, I'm sure glad I went, and I take anyone that visits to see it.

I hear you and having somebody with you helps too - even strangers. To
me it's really something very personal and I just don't want to share
that with anybody else.

Strange I know, but that's the way of it.

Not strange at all, guys. i haven't been and it's because I haven't
really had the opertunity to go, even though I have two friends and a
relative there. I've seen the mobile wall a couple of times, and
that's a good perspective, but I take it, it isn't liek visiting the
real one.

Being one who never served in battle, I either can or can't appreciate
the emotions of those who have. But I do understand comradery .

But I can understand that visiting is a personal matter for those who
know.


"War is Hell"- W.T. Sherman


But I found this as well. Most defining.

""I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine.
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard
the shrieks and groans of the wounded
who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
War is hell."

From "On Killing" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman