I meant to post this on Memorial Day since it was fitting but yeah I had computer problems AGAIN over the weekend.
Anyway.
I found The Wall shortly after I joined SL. I'm pretty sure I found the landmark in the Showcase tab. I thought the place sounded so interesting and was surprised when I tped there, that there was no one there (if you actually tp to the places I post probably 90% of them will be empty-hmm guess I'm not hip on the neat places in SL).
The Wall is like the Vietnam Memorial Wall in DC. The place has lots of trees and plenty of seats to just sit and enjoy the surroundings.
There are three main parts to the sim:
The Vietnam Veteran's Women's Statue (I'm sorry the picture sucks)
The Three Servicemen Statue (Again sorry for picture)
And finally the wall.
What is so neat about the Wall is that there are actual names there that you can search in a database. There are databases set up all over.
You click on the database and it will tell you to type in a name. I typed in Thomas (my daddy's name-who also served in Vietnam) and it brought up all the Thomas's that are on the Wall. You then type in the number before the name.
I chose the name Thomas S Alfred. From there the database lets you teleport to right where the name appears on The Wall. The big arrow tells you what row (he was on row 35), so yeah I know it does suck that you have to count down on to find the name (but I assume you have to do that at the regular memorial?) But I did find Thomas.
You can also give presents to the names you search for, so I gave Thomas an American Flag. I don't know who you are Thomas but Happy Memorial Day to you and Thanks for serving our country.
There's also a video you can watch which I couldn't get to work but alas SL usually hates me anyway.
Again here's the slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Wall/39/32/26
There's a notecard with better instructions than what I just rambled when you teleport in, just click accept :)
Also there's a website to go with the Wall http://www.thewallsl.com/
On a side note, in the past I have joined two soldier groups that support the soldiers by sending them stuff they need. The websites were anysoldier.com and soldiersangels.org. The second one is more involved, but for anysoldier I just wrote letters to the soldiers mostly. You don't have to agree with what is going on to write a letter to just let them know you are thinking of them when they are overseas. I admit I haven't done either one in a year and I should start again.
