acptulsa
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That wall, reminds me of a huge standing urinal?
The walk along the bottom of the wall is sloped toward the wall and there appears to be a trench along the the bottom of the wall.
I saw it in person once. As usual, I was walking against the flow. I wasn't terribly impressed by it, though some of the impromptu memorials left in that gutter touched me.
As I was leaving, a boy about ten, moving with his folks who were flowing with the crowd, asked where the monument was. He had just come along side the end of it, before the names started, where it's only a few inches high.
I pointed and said, "You're right next to it."
He looked down and replied, "Oh, it starts small."
Out of the mouths of babes. I said, "Yes, just like the war."