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While I was on my second session of active duty - around 1982 or so - I was staying with a fellow Major buddy of mine in DC and we went running late one afternnoon from his place to the Wall. We stopped there and went down to the area for 1967 and looked up some guys we knew while we were in country. He and I swapped stories about some of those characters, which included a cannoneer we knew as "Wimpy" who was so skinny that his favorite trick was to suck in his breath which would cause his pants to fall down.. We were both laughing about the stuff he and others used to do as 19-year-olds living together on the top of that hill, when some indignant lady showed up. She stormed into our faces and said "how dare you laugh at a place like this?".

I glared at her and said "Lady, those were friends of ours and if we want to remember them with laughter, that's our privilege" and she stormed off.

Despite the attempts by the pro-enemy Left to denigrate us and shame us, we came out of everything just fine. I am very proud of the young men I served with and nobody could have been finer Americans. Their memories shine through whatever insult the monument makers intended.

P.S., If that atrocious and fallacious "Women's Statue" happens to melt into a puddle some night, you have no idea who might have done it...