31 May 2004 THE WALL A silent expanse of jet black marble Thousands of names Carved in gold. An army of children Thousands of lives A devastating sight To behold Who were these children Who gave up their lives In places with names Like Da Nang And Ia Drang And Saigon. The names on the wall Are our fathers And children, Our uncles, Our brothers, Our sons. And the war that killed The children It's said should have never begun. Protesters were killed At Kent State. Soldiers, Died in the 'Nam. Kids came home in boxes Families buried their sons. I wasn't born in the sixties, And I don't remember Saigon But someone I loved Died in Ia Drang And the memory Is all that goes on. Sergeant George Anthony Wilson The uncle that I never knew There were thousands of heartbreaks On the Wall And my family has one there, too. A silent expanse of jet black marble With thousands of names Carved in gold A tombstone carved For an army of children Who died Doing what they were told. Terri Elizabeth Wilson In Loving Memory of Sergeant George Anthony Wilson and the thousands of others who are far more than names on a Wall .. 7-26-1990 by his niece, Terri Elizabeth Wilson

 

Sergeant George A. Wilson died in the fighting in the Ia Drang Valley November 1965. Visit the Landing Zone X-Ray site and The Virtual Wall's Ia Drang Memorial

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