Yom Kippur Comment

This is a comment from the guest book that we keep at the Eyes Wide Open events soliciting people's reflections on the memorial:

To Smo, Jimmy, Little Joe,
Friday 9-24-04 is Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, and the anniversary of your deaths on that trail in the central highlands of Vietnam. As I sit and look over the 1,000+ boots here representing another generation's bloodletting, I remember you and cry with the deep pain of knowing that the war goes on. I promised myself that deep, dark night that I would return to speak for you about the costs of war. I've done my best but the fear still rules...