Memorial Day and the Walking Dead

Last year my son and I went to Washington DC.
My grandfather has a great resting place along side the path from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Eternal Flame. I guess you had to get there early to get a good seat. He died in 1943 before I was every born.
If you have ever been there you will notice the grandness of the war hero's in statue formation.
The formation of these is moving, but as all art the viewer can be moved in many directions.
Like my interpretation of the wall the lists those young men from Vietnam was a slight turning of the stomach, somehow I was at lunch again. I got sick.
When you see the age of those boys and that they took the ones that were the poorest and least educated first.
Long ago in ancient Greece the soldiers actually voted on if it was worth going to war, they decided if they wanted to risk death and burden their families themselves. Not the government, because after all it is not those in politics that suffer as much as the average person that depends on that entire family.
I have heard this song recently, can anyone name that tune? We are in a war that will be memorialized in some of the same parks in 20 years.
The one thing missing that is the true cost of war is the loss of a child. The one thing that is missing is the statue of grieving parents over the casket of their returning child.
These statues to me sell war and honor heroes and do not represent what the real human costs are.
How about a few statues of the men that have committed suicide after coming back or the large amout of mentally ill that are continually homeless.
The walking dead!
Why aren't they honored as well?
This memorial day lets look at the real cost of war as the mothers and fathers grieve for the child they walked at night with a fever as an infant and the mentally ill and suicidal that walk among us.
All the deceased are not in the ground and buried, they are walking among us in silent sorrow.
Lets all remember them as well.
The true cost of war lives among us.