The Wall is down and on its way to Middleboro Mass as I write this entry. With few exceptions you would never know the wall was ever on the soccer field. The well worn path of thousands of people walking being one of those exceptions. The volunteers are are exhausted from long hours of walking the wall, and talking to people for hour after hour, but I am sure if you talked to any of the people who volunteered their time for this labor of love, they would tell you they don't regret a moment of it at all. Every minute spent in Constitution Park, in Center Ossipee NH was well worth it, educating children on a period in our history, working with adults coming to grips with their past, and just remembering their part in this historic event. There are over 58,000 reasons why each person volunteered whether it be for a specific name on that somber wall or for all 58,000+ in general they came day after day for five days to pay their tributes, and the volunteers where there to help them.
If you have the chance to visit the wall I strongly suggest you do, it draws you in like a magnet, and almost refuses to let you go. Even better if The Wall is near you, become a volunteer, the people you meet make it worth all the effort you put into it. Unfortunately now it is gone only a memory in some many peoples histories, but it is a memory we can take with us forever., knowing that in some very small way we are forever linked to those men and women listed upon that wall. Lives who never met intermingled in the history of this country
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