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 Photograph of the Michigan Vietnam Wall Memorial in Lansing, MI. Photograph courtesy of MI Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs. |
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| The Wall |
| There's a wall of marble Five hundred feet long - Ten feet high, scribed with names Of those who died, the strong. There's more than fifty-eight thousand Etched upon that stone - Most of them died so young This life, they've never known. It's such a small tribute To those who fought our war - Such a small price we pay To those who gave much more. Their name carved in a rock That most of us won't read - Not near enough praise to give For their most gracious deed. Seems there's too many of us Who don't really seem to care That we stayed home secure and safe While they died over there. Remember when you see that Wall With all those initials and names That those men were only pawns In one more of those deadly games. Let's hope what they gave had meaning - And that peace will always reign - That we won't have to send our young To fight and die again. |
- by Del "Abe" Jones |
| "The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional as to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were Treated and Appreciated by their Nation." -- George Washington |
| "A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have." -- Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." -- John F. Kennedy, in his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1961 |
| "As an American asked to serve, I was prepared to fight, to be wounded, to be captured and even prepared to die, but I was not prepared to be abandoned."
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| "The POW experience is like having a serious wound that eventually heals but leaves a permanent ugly scar. We who have survived do not consider ourselves as heroes...only survivors...If there were any heroes among us, it was those who perished...Those who gave up their tomorrow's so we could have our today's."
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| "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." -- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
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