朝鲜战争纪念碑(The Korean War Veterans Memorial)。与越南战争不同,美国人对朝鲜战争,几乎忘记了,所以有时称忘记了的战争;有人认为是二战的延续,那么久推论为正义的战争。为此我和不少美国人争论过。在越战和韩战纪念碑的美国人,很多面色凝重。不知他们中有多少与我同样,希望美军能够早日撤出伊拉克。
建造于两年前的二战纪念碑(The National World War II Memorial)。为代表美国每一州的石碑环绕,南拱门代表太平洋战场,北拱门代表大西洋战场(包括非洲)。这是个辉煌的纪念碑,如同美国当时的辉煌胜利,使得美国成为世界头号霸主。
Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigaret I think there's one in the raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenary she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America