Hello Nice People,

              It is a stinker outside today.  This is the first HOT weekend and the shoobies are here.  Shoobies are the locals name for the tourists.  I think we are going to get bombarded with shoobies this summer because people are not going to be taking the long vacations due to the price of  gas.  Yesteray we went to see the Moving Viet Nam Wall in the next town.  Opening ceremonies were Friday and closing will be Monday at 4:00.  We spent an hour or more looking at the names of the dead.  They are 58,249 names of soldiers killed in the Viet Nam War.  It is just too hard to fathom.

This is the East half.  Each half is 126.5 feet long made of aluminum panels with the names silk screened on them

There were Viet Nam vets there who just love to talk about the war.  Of course they are about our age because we were teenagers during the war.

This is Al Becker telling us about his tours of duty.  I think Antny learned a lot.

Al and Sal

Johnson A Steidler,  was a cousin who would be my age right now.  He was killed 3 weeks after Sal and I were Married.

          

58,249 names!!!!!!!!    58,249  boys!!!!!!    58,249 men!!!!!!!

 

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