Sometimes, life presents you with an opportunity that is completely out of the blue! While having breakfast at the hotel, Darin struck up a conversation with a gentleman who was obviously a military veteran. During the brief time, he mentioned that he was one of the representatives of the 'Traveling Replica Vietnam Memorial Wall' which was in the parking lot right around the corner from the hotel! So, of course, we packed the children into the Bronco and went to check it out. It was sobering. The traveling wall is 3/4 the size of the wall in D.C. It was painful to visually see how many of our people were lost in such a few short years. How many of these souls left young families behind? How many of these souls were too young to have even had a chance to really experience life? I look at Charlie, he just had his 19th birthday - how many of these names belonged to soldiers younger than he is now?
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