Memorial Day

 

 It's Memorial Day in the United States, when the country honors it's veterans who died in the line of duty from major conflicts such as the World Wars, the Civil War being the deadliest with over 600,000 dead in a nation of thirty million at the time, to training and smaller conflicts, including the War with Iran still going on today which has claimed thirteen American soldiers so far, and not long ago the Afghan War in which 2400 US servicemen died, and 4500 in the Iraq War. 

 

Second Life has some memorials to America's fallen. This includes it's replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, located high in the Veterans Isle sim which was rebuilt here in 2022, and has all 58,000 names on the original. With one's avatar looking so small compared to that massive list of names, each one an American veteran who had their hopes and dreams and usually with family who would never see them alive again, it's a sobering reminder of the price of war. 

 

The Vietnam Wall is at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Veterans%20Isle/177/185/2485 

 

"We shall remember,"

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Memorial Day

 

 Today is Memorial Day, in which America takes a moment to remember its fallen veterans. For those who fell during the Vietnam War, a conflict that claimed over 58,000 American servicemen and women.

 

 

A replica of the memorial in Washington DC, the names of the fallen are etched on granite, the sheer number a sobering reminder of the huge number of casualties.

 

Vietnam wasn't our last war, America getting into wars about every generation, the years since seeing the Gulf War, the Afghan War, and the Iraq War. America always needs its veterans. And sadly some never come home alive.

 

We shall remember

 

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Veterans%20Isle/177/185/2485

 

Bixyl Shuftan

 

Memorial Day

 

 

Today is Memorial Day in the United States, the day in which Americans honor those veterans who passed away. One noteable memorial to them here in Second Life is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial high above the Heavens Sunset sim.

"All gave some, some gave all."

Have an honored Memorial Day.