Tag: history

• A Mass Engraving

  

  Requests come in daily. They are from loved ones wanting a rubbing from the Wall. A rubbing of the engraving they have requested be mailed to them. Loved ones who are unable to make the trip to the capitol. Loved ones who will not see their own eyes staring back from the glassy black wall.…

  Dan Metzger

  September 3, 2015

  Fiction, Short Story

  America, creative writing, death, engraving, etched, family, Fiction, history, hope, loss, love, missing, mother, mourning, names, rubbing, son, Vietnam Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, Vietnam War, volunteers, war, Washington D. C.