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I have always been in awe of the American families who come to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC. | |
That memorial created a pilgrimage of multiple generations. | |
The Vietnam War has ended many years ago, and yet the American families come to visit the fallen. | |
From the first one to the last one, and they come up to the memorial, and they scribble the name, and they frame that piece of paper. | |
They take it back to Austin, Texas, to Timbuktu, wherever they go. | |
the idea was that we need to erect a place that would spark the same pilgrimage, the same need for the family. | |
If you have a small They can find their own family. | |
They can replicate the same experience. | |
That child can come back to the community and say, "Look, this is the name of my grandfather. | |
He came here and he gave us the prosperity and safety and really good life in Canada." |