After a little hesitation, the girls were drawn into the warmth and welcome that Corky seems so able to create. The girls finally met others like themselves and found out they weren't alone or different. Their experiences were similar to the other sons and daughters. I met, for the very first time, another VN War widow, Wanda Ruffin. We didn't have a good chance to talk, but I look forward to future correspondence with her.
Faces fit the names.
I took a lot of pictures. Ari, one of the sons, drove us back to the Wall after the party. Other sons and daughters went, too. Ari's dad is on the panel next to Bill's. I'm not sure what I felt, standing there in the still dark, watching these young men and women, seeing Bill's name.