A comparison that shows the Vietnam war in 1959, is or was a like looking into a mirror of how the Iraq war will play out, and how it has played out so far. There is a line where she writes about the Vietnam veterans memorial, saying "Maya Lin envisioned a scar when she designed it, a scar on the land" (Anna Quindlen.) She said basically that it was meant to leave the mark of the Vietnam war on America forever. That we will always be able to "touch the cold names with our warm fingers" (Anna Quindlen), and this memorial was one of the most personal of all war memorials, it was the most personal of all wars and it would see that it still would be the most personal, but now we have had the Iraq war. The war that President Bush never intended to be so personal to the American people, but it was thrust upon the people. It was supposed to be all about policy, not about the people. It was being washed out at the beginning when Bush 's people decided they didn 't want any personal ties to the war in the media, they didn 't want any documentation connected to the war. The forbid any photographs of the coffins of fallen men and women, of fallen soldiers arriving how after being killed in action and they also never kept track of how many Iraqis had …show more content…
Quindlen put some much emotion into one line that said "She was a mother whose soldier son was now dead"(Anna Quindlen), personally this line got me hooked into her reading because I have known the loss of a soldiers death and I can understand the toal it takes on a person so when Quindlen brought up this mother it pulled me over to her side. The mother wanted to know why her son had to die. "What was the cause, the point, the strategy" (Anna Quindlen), of the war, but as soon as these questions were asked suddenly all Americans started to realize that there was no good answer to any of them, that the cat seemed to have Bush 's