Joe Mantegna is the host.
Dramatizations are performed by leading actors. Songs are performed by
Allison Krause. The audience loved her, as they did
the gorgeously attired Patti La Belle - did I spell your name right, Patti?
Guess they had her sing to honor the formerly enslaved members of our nation. God bless America.
The Vietnam Wall was the first time Vietnam Vets were honored.
I visited a couple of times.
All armed service members were honored. Each came forward in a pageant and sang their songs.
I could not remember the words to FROM THE HALLS OF MONTEZUMA. My dad always had us sing that song. He was a proud Marine, who called himself "hard as nails."
Holy cow! The famous Jacques Offenbach wrote the music,
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