Veterans Day: A visit to the Moving Wall.

Saturday, November 11, 2006

It begins with a note to my nephew, a National Merit Scholar, who called recently to ask for information concerning my husband's time in the Air Force during Vietnam and his service in the Philippine Islands. I also sent along a copy of an essay I'd written several years ago after visiting the Moving Wall exhibit of the Vietnam Memorial that visited Cape Girardeau in the 1980s. Here is the e-mail message to my nephew, E.J. Morgan, as he was helping with plans for a Veterans Day memorial at Kelly High School:

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