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Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection

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This book is truly amazing. I honestly could not put it down. Every time I read it, I felt like I knew each person lost. It's a real story of real life, coming from those who lived it. You can't get anymore real than that.

I sobbed through Offerings at the Wall. Sobbed for the loss of innocence and young lives lost. For anyone raised in the 1960s this should be a must read to understand and come to grips with the imapct the Vietnam War had on our generation. God speed to our veterans and to the brave young men and women of today's military still fighting for our freedom. Please take the time to thank a veteran for his/her service to our country.

Offerings at the Wall is an incredible book of the trials of the human spirit. It is like taking a tour through hell and coming out feeling some hope. It is incredibly personal. After reading it you feel as if these artifacts were left at the grave of a family member. This is one of the most valuable books I own.

Eventhough I do not understand the Vietnam war, and I was not alive at the time, this book really touched me. The guilt, pain, and loss that the offerings people had left made me cry. There was a picture with a little girl and her dad, and a veteren was telling about the day he met the man in the photo. I think that story will stick with me forever. I saw the pain of innocense lost through the artifacts, and the truth of the poeple in that war was revealed. I reconmmend this book to anyone from that era to the youth of mine.

My best friend and I used to curl up in chairs at the local book store to read this book and weep. It is a very touching and poignant book, a must see.

I bought this book for my husband, a Vietnam veteran, in the mid 90s. We read and re-read it and loaned it to many people who wept, shared and loved the contents, only to have it "not returned". How amazing that some 15 years later I have finally found it again! I've searched every book store! My husband will be so pleased to add this to his Vietnam artifacts and library!

This is a moving book about the artifacts left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,D.C. Reading and seeing the pictures, about the different artifacts: stories, letters and notes are of interest on there own admission, but to tie it to the individual name on that black slab of granite, America's tombstone of the Vietnam War is mythical.

Have picked it up a number of times, since reading and digesting its contents.

No matter how you may feel about the war, the humanity revealed in this book will touch your heart. A little keepsake or memento left behind to a buddy, brother, husband or father is more than politics or justification of warfare it is about an offering to a loved one that died. That old saying a picture is worth a thousand words is true with this book, I found myself just staring blindly at insignificant objects that in any other place could easily be looked over, but here its is given to pay homage to the dead and maybe give a little peace to the living.

This book is beyond catagorization. More than any story, journalism, or war photos could ever do, this book demonstrates the horrors that soldiers in Vietnam were subjected to both "in-country" and state-side. Every American should own this book.

This book will blow your mind. I am a Vietnam vet, and though I was not in direct combat, many of the items in the book will bring me to tears when I think about the events surrounding them. For example, one item left at The Wall was a very skimpy pair of black lacy women's panties. "How inappropriate," you may think. But think harder. Are they what 'she' wore on their wedding night? Are they what 'she' was GOING to wear on their wedding night......that never came?

It is truly a great book, but buy it at your own risk, you will shed some tears...