We ended up at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a very somber end to the day, and spent a long time there, especially at the center where the two wings meet, the dates 1959 and 1975 resounding. The remembrances and tokens left at the base of the wall included a Superman comic book from 1965 with a note that read, "Is this the one you wanted?" Pictures, poems, stories, letters. A single flower. But the one that really got to me was the box of Bandaids, the kind that are for blistered feet.
In Memory of Wayne Brown
"On the water some nights you can feel the earth breathing, the black mountains and the black-gleaming sea together: one world, and old, in the slow-encompassing darkness. Quietude is easy, and vacancy. To speak at all on such a night is to stir the air."
- Wayne Brown - from Landscape with Heron