I was on holiday in DC earlier this month; on the 4th of July, I visited the Memorial for the first time in about 20 years. For those of you who've never been, the boomerang-shaped, elongated wall contains the names of all 58,000+ American war dead (and reflects, literally, some of the important sites on the Mall). It's very moving. Friends and family of the dead often take away a memento of the experience like this:
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