The OES visited the Vietnam Wall Experience on August 29, 2004. The Experience is a traveling replica of the Vietnam Wall Memorial in Washington, DC that travels across the country. It lists more than 58,000 servicemen and women who died or are MIA in Vietnam. We visited the eight foot high, 240 foot long memorial at Kingwood Memorial Park at approximately 1:45 AM, and were surprised to see how many people were there. Looking at all of the names on the wall, it was hard to imagine that all of them were actual people who were lost to war. Once one has visited the memorial, be it the replica or the one in DC, you will definitely walk away with respect to those who paid the ultimate price serving for their country.