Faces In The Wall

Former Army sergeant and Vietnam veteran Leonard E. Cowles traces his past at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. To veterans like Lenny Cowles, the Wall is not a monument; to them, it represents one headstone for a massive grave. Each name is a ghost without a face.

Army veteran Leonard Cowles gazes upon the past with a scene from his time overseas cast into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Alan Wayne Thornton died on March 14, 1969. Lenny and Alan met as kids playing baseball in Southern California.

Theophilus Bowles also died on March 14th, 1969. Theo and Lenny met two months before his death, quickly becoming friends.

Lenny Cowles looks back to when he returned from the Plain of Reeds in a daze.

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