It is not as imposing as Arlington, with its seemingly unending rows of white stones. But it is in-your-face real. You can indeed see oil still seeping from the ship, a turret, etc. There is a wall containing the names of those who sacrificed, grouped by branch of service, and multiple people stopped and stood there for quite a long time. They probably were, like me, reading EVERY name, because I felt that the least I could do was to take the time to acknowledge each person individually.

I thought, wow, when these kids did this, most of them were probably doing something so much bigger than anything they’d ever done before in their lives, and they were doing it for Allied leaders they’ve never even met.

Blue has a plausible argument, but at least one person (me) saw something different when she read the words.

I don’t want Alaska to secede, but to bring some of that culture of frontiersman self-sufficiency to Washington doesn’t seem like a bad idea. By “self-sufficiency”, I don’t mean everyone for themselves. I mean, developing a good economy, and if the returns from it are great enough, distributing some of the profits back to citizens, as Alaska does with its oil income.

I mean reducing our dependence on foreign investors that buy our debt.

I mean bringing back more resource-based, manufacturing-based jobs to America — if that means a bit more trade protectionism than in recent years, to bring foreign goods’ prices closer to those of American-made goods, so be it. The family that shops at Wal-Mart will be worse off for a while, but the tariffs paid by the importers will go right into the government to help us stabilize the budget deficit and maybe even begin to pay it down. And that will ultimately have a positive effect on the economy (ref: Clinton years, balanced budget, etc.).

While we are at Bill Clinton had a horrible record where the VA is concerned. Jesse Brown told Bill if you didn’t right by veterans I will resign as VA Secretary and that is what happened.

Obama lied about his uncle’s service. He was not in the Army at all he was in the USN. I fact checked. It was really easy to do since I live in Kansas. Obama only wants a photo op and when he couldn’t get it with campaign ads, he cancelled his visit in Germany!

Larry thank you for this view of the cemetary. Though I visited in France, I was too far to visit the cemetary! It truly brought tears to my eyes!

I Hope and Pray that Wars on that scale never happen again..the Loss of so much Life is tragic and Sad..

Hitlerrand his Followers were Lunatics..and I Pray that there will Never be another Attempt to Conquor the World through WAR again..and that we will stay on a path toeard Freedom..and respect for Human Life..

thanks..LC

God Bless America and keep her free!

McCain/Palin

You are describing Obama, not the Honorable Senator John McCain our next president.

Take your garbage to another website and peddle it, it ain’t gonna register on this one.

-Father O’Brien, USMC

God bless all those individuals and their families for their service to our great country.

What you need is a psychiatrist!

Remember his story that he would have served in Vietnam? Another lie. By the time he was eligible the war was over. But apparently military families don’t mind if Obama lies on the dead, the wounded, and the survivors of combat or military service.

I like Hillary and would have preferred her as a candidate. I’m well aware of what she did for veterans, especially female veterans.

What has Obama done? Wear a bracelet. Hillary set up an office for female veterans and McCain put his a$$ on the line.

But none of that counts. Because they’re not Obama. Sure he played basketball with ambulatory troops. But he couldn’t go to Landstuhl to visit the bed-ridden troops.

Obama is NOT going to “save the troops in Iraq” . He said he will re-deploy them to Afghanistan.

Does that sound like they’re all coming home any time soon? NO.