WASHINGTON—On a blustery, partly cloudy spring day, 77-year-old Army veteran George Walker never noticed his own reflection on the shiny black granite surface.
He was too focused on a symbolic reunification with five of his boyhood pals from Mentor, Ohio. Decades-old emotions and memories roiled inside Walker as he found his friends’ names among those of more than 58,000 dead or missing U.S. servicemembers on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall.
Tears welled up in Walker’s eyes as he told The Epoch Times, “It makes me feel good to see their names, because I really miss ‘em.” Then he paused. His voice cracked. And he said, “They were good friends—all of ‘em.”…