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Few memorials arm-twist as able an affecting acknowledgment as the Vietnam War Canonizing in Washington, D.C. Like the War itself, the canonizing is altered from all the others surrounding it. Appropriately, it stirs an cutting activity that you alone accept if you’ve encountered “the Wall.”
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For those who accept never been to acquaintance – and I say acquaintance rather than see – the Vietnam War Memorial, the granite bank is stark, atramentous and acutely goes on always as it lists added than 58,000 names of Americans who gave their lives in Vietnam engraved in archival order. Among the names of the fallen, you’ll additionally see the fingerprints, audacity prints, and tears of their admired ones on the wall. People do not aloof appear to see the wall, they appear to blow it and feel the cede of our nation.
As the Secretary of the Interior, I am the abettor of our lands, memorials, and monuments. It’s my job to baby-sit our nation’s war memorials on the National Mall, which are allotment of the National Park System. Caring for our Vietnam War Canonizing would not be accessible after the abutment of bags of veterans and their families beyond the country. On Veterans Day, it is important to admit the absolute appulse that veterans accept on our nation back they acknowledgment home, in accession to anniversary their service.
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Last month, the Butler County American Legion Riders collection bottomward in buses to accommodated me in Washington, D.C. Led by President Dennis Christie and Treasurer Bill McNutt, the accumulation hand-delivered a $40,778.28 analysis for the budget of the Vietnam War Canonizing as able-bodied as architecture of the approaching museum.
Their efforts, accompanying with those of the Rolling Thunder capacity who deathwatch up at the able of aurora (sometimes earlier) to ablution the bank afore bags of tourists arrive, will advice advance the canonizing and will accumulate the anamnesis of these collapsed heroes animate for years to come.
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Our nation charge never balloon the names on the Vietnam Wall. That is why the Vietnam Veterans Canonizing Fund, the nonprofit that congenital the memorial, has organized the account of every distinct name on the Bank from Nov. 7-10 by veterans and the families and accompany of admired ones who gave their lives in Vietnam. I’m appreciative to accept alternate in the account this year.
This Veterans Day, I would like to abnormally admit the Butler County veterans for administration their time with me and their generosity with the memorial. After putting their lives on the band for their country, for their brothers and sisters in arms, and for freedom, the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and bank guardsman of Butler County already afresh gave what they could as civilians – their time and money – to attention and honoring our nation’s fallen.
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is a retired Navy Seal Commander who served from 1986-2008.
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Published: November 9, 2017 — 8:55 AM EST
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