I spent (only) 3 days in Washington, D.C. so we had limited time at each site. Of all the memorials we visited, this one surprised me the most. I knew nothing about it prior to visiting it, and it really made me think about this war and this time in our country. While in college I wrote about monuments, and the symbolism in them, and why people choose to memorialize events. I studied this one in depth, and I really want to go back so I can appreciate it even more than I did the first time.