Got me thinking about time and the passage of in a whole new
way. How it'll be 70 years this December since the bombing of
Pearl Harbor (72 this September since the official start of the
war). How it took 59 years before there was even a monument
devoted to those who served in that war. (I'm obviously not
counting the years it took to build the beautiful monument.) And
how of the 16,112,566 individuals were members of the United
States armed forces during the war, as of September 2010
approximately 1,981,000. [wiki article] If you have the
opportunity to visit, take the time to do so. On April 29, 2004,
the National World War II Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., to
thousands of visitors, providing overdue recognition for the 16
million U.S. men and women who served in the war. The memorial
is located on 7.4 acres on the former site of the Rainbow Pool
at the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the
Lincoln Memorial. The Capitol dome is seen to the east, and
Arlington Cemetery is just across the