The Vietnam Memorial

War Memorials in Washington, DC are generally grandiose and seem to exalt the nobility of war at the expense of all the suffering that goes with it, except perhaps the Vietnam War Memorial and its almost subterranean aspect along with the strange feeling that seem to emanate from its natural cove.

Strange, because it shows a list of almost 60,000 names that stand for real individuals who paid the ultimate price for a war many of them didn't want in their lives. Of course, this place takes a special meaning for baby-boomers that are now embroiled with their idealistic views of yesteryear and, in most cases, their much more conservative, even stiffer posture today.

Then like a shadow hanging over that heavy list of names, there's another one that can't be seen and happens to dwarf all these names because it's about one million strong...