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Vietnam War Memorial

Vietnam War Memorial SC 9.3-Mason-Dixon Lines 8/14/03 9:29 AM Page 89 Mason-Dixon Lines       The “black wall uncovered here” stretches “on and on through the ground,” ultimately “with all our names” hidden below. A Civil War kinship with Vietnam War dead, courtesy of the collections of the Library of Congress. 89 SC 9.3-Mason-Dixon Lines 8/14/03 9:29 AM Page 90 What we see first seems a shadow or a retaining wall in the park, like half a giant pool or half an exposed foundation. The names start a few to the column at the shallow ends and grow panel by deeper panel as though month by month to the point of opposing planes. From that pit you can’t see much official Washington, just sky and trees and names and people on the Mall and the Capitol like a fancy urn. For this is a wedge into the earth, a ramp of names driven into the nation’s green, a black mirror of names many as the text of a book published in stone, beginning almost imperceptibly in the lawn on one side and growing on black pages bigger than any reader (as you look for your own name in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Vietnam War Memorial

Morgan, Robert, --
Southern Cultures , Volume 9 (3) – Aug 20, 2003
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SC 9.3-Mason-Dixon Lines 8/14/03 9:29 AM Page 89 Mason-Dixon Lines       The “black wall uncovered here” stretches “on and on through the ground,” ultimately “with all our names” hidden below. A Civil War kinship with Vietnam War dead, courtesy of the collections of the Library of Congress. 89 SC 9.3-Mason-Dixon Lines 8/14/03 9:29 AM Page 90 What we see first seems a shadow or a retaining wall in the park, like half a giant pool or half an exposed foundation. The names start a few to the column at the shallow ends and grow panel by deeper panel as though month by month to the point of opposing planes. From that pit you can’t see much official Washington, just sky and trees and names and people on the Mall and the Capitol like a fancy urn. For this is a wedge into the earth, a ramp of names driven into the nation’s green, a black mirror of names many as the text of a book published in stone, beginning almost imperceptibly in the lawn on one side and growing on black pages bigger than any reader (as you look for your own name in

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Aug 20, 2003

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