Gun Deaths Since Newtown now exceeds U.S. Military deaths in 20 war-years

[DreamGypsy]

9. Long Black Wall...grows longer...

...I didn't know that, but it's not surprising.

Michael Jerling's Long Black Wall:

The vets came back on the G.I. Bill
In their field jackets and jeans
Drank black coffee and smoked cigarettes
And never spoke of what they'd seen
Long black wall
And nothing left to say
Long black wall
So many miles away

The man on TV said ten years had gone
Today a monument was raised
And when they wrote each name one art a time
The roll of dead took four whole days
Long black wall
And nothing is the same
Long black wall
Shining in the rain
Long black wall
And nothing is undone
Long black wall
Sleeping in the sun

I haven't been to the wall in D.C. We lived for several years about half a mile from Portland's Oregon's Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Every few weeks the dogs and I would extend our walk in the Hoyt Arboretum to walk the spiral there...leading us through the morass of that war's death and destruction...out into another time.