At the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C., a park ranger explained the wall of stars: “Each of the 4,048 stars represents 100 American service members killed in action.” There’s not enough space to inscribe every name.
(Maybe its just me, or my imagination, but standing in front of these stars at the edge of a small pool of water, I hear what sounds like polite, continuous applause. I don’t know if this sound is intentional, but it is definitely one place I like to bring visitors to see if they can hear it, too.)
