Memorial Park on Memorial Day

Today we went to see the traveling Vietnam Memorial.  I have seen this every time I have gone to Washington D.C. and I have to say the original is more powerful but the traveling version still imparts the magnitude of the loss of war.

There are 58,272 names on the wall.  That is a huge number.  I try to put it in perspective, how many people do I know, certianly not 58,000.  Combine that with the fact that almost everything I know about the Vietnam war has come from watching Forest Gump, Apocalypse Now, and Good Morning Vietnam, I did not feel like the best American ever.

Kennedy enjoyed a breezy stroll in the park and Sarah was nice enough to indulge my desire to get out and do stuff so the trip went off well.

This was a truly free event, though there were donation boxes around.  The only cost came from the fact that we suddenly felt the need to have something on the grill for dinner, forgoing our previously planned dinner and making a stop at the store.  Extra bonus, brats were only $.70 each! (Perhaps not the most patriotic of dinners, still grilled none the less.)