Name on a Tombstone

[Tell of what comes to mind when you hear or see their name and then describe the indelible mark they left upon the souls of those who benefited by their presence.]

Some years ago, I had the opportunity to make a trip to Washington and I had a chance to visit the Vietnam Memorial Wall. As many of you know, it’s a long black granite wall with thousands of names of those who lost their lives in that tragic conflict. As I walked the grounds of the Wall, I couldn’t help but notice the silence, the sense of reverence resonating everywhere. I also couldn’t help but notice how, when people found the name of a loved one, they’d rub their fingers across the name, many doing so with tears running down their face. You could tell from the tears that what they rubbed was more than a n…