Reply #7: It is heartbreaking and wrong.

[TayTay]

Did you ever see how big that Vietnam Memorial Wall is?

"Half of those — let me remind you, and while you’re here in Washington, take a moment to walk down to the Vietnam War Memorial, if you haven’t done it.

As you walk down that path into the center of the V and you stand in the V, you can look up one end and you’ll see 1960 — earlier, 1959 — all the way through parts of 1968, and then the other side of the all brings us toward the end.

And half the names on that wall, half the names — stand in the center of it and look up at tens of thousands of young Americans — half the names on that wall were lost after America’s leaders knew and later acknowledged our strategy would not succeed.

It was immoral then and it is immoral now to be quiet or equivocal in the face of that kind of delusion." John Kerry, June 13, 2006

I had tears in my eyes when I heard Senator Kerry say these words. I kept thinking about a young girl from my town who just graduated from High School and has enlisted in the US Marine Corp. A girl who is a constituent of Senator Kerry's and whose family has suffered a great deal from this war. I couldn't help thinking about her and wondering if there will be a Memorial Wall for Iraq someday and whose name will be on it. We know we can't win this war, we stone cold know it. I wondered if that young girl's name might someday be on a wall, after the bend, after we knew we couldn't win it. And yeah, I cried.