Among the lost and remembered

Today we hit a very impressive Arlington National Cemetary that has in it vast amounts of history and museums.
We start of at Vietnam Veterans memorial walk which has over 58,000 names inscribed in it for the Americans killed in Vietnam Conflicts.
The amount of people who recognised me as an Aussie who was in Vietnam was very gratifying and special especially the young American teenagers who came from Dallas and Illanois who thanked me for my service.It hits home when you get recognition from total strangers.One african American vet even yelled out aver a small crowd "without that Aussie Veteran helping us over there I would be not here"then he said "that is true my brother hooraaah to you my brother and thank you for saving us".I said "thank you for your time over too brother hoooraaaah to you".
The Lincon memorial was and is windblown as to the scale of it has to be at least 20 to 30 ft high and 10 ft across the chair.Ceiling is a good 60 ft high and all the inscription are chiselled into the stone.
The amount of people there today were amazing and that happens every day.
We then hopped on to one of the many tour buses to do the round trip of the whole area glad we did it covers over 15 km of the arlington,Washington area .Leggi altro