At first I chuckled as I put together who we were meeting yet again all these years later. But then as the reality of the contrast between an iconic 1950's sitcom and the all-too-real echos of the war that divided America in the 1960's, William J. Goodwin's crafting of the aftermath brought me back to reality. It may be jarring to put the antics of little boys and their suburban paradise in contrast to the trauma and loss as represented by the Vietnam War Memorial's names, but it's something we need to see and remember.
At first I chuckled as I put together who we were meeting yet again all these years later. But then as the reality of the contrast between an iconic 1950's sitcom and the all-too-real echos of the war that divided America in the 1960's, William J. Goodwin's crafting of the aftermath brought me back to reality. It may be jarring to put the antics of little boys and their suburban paradise in contrast to the trauma and loss as represented by the Vietnam War Memorial's names, but it's something we need to see and remember.