A haunting Vietnam War memorial

Out in Colorado along the Continental Divide rises an obelisk surrounded by a low wall of flat stones. The obelisk consists of seven carved marble blocks engraved with the names of the countries from which soldiers fought and died in Vietnam, from the French, the Gurkhas and the Indians in World War Two through Dien Bien Phu in 1954 through the Laotians, the Hmong, the Montagnards, the Cambodians, the Americans and the Vietnamese until the end of America’s Vietnam War in 1974.

Nobody is saying who built it. It’s not marked on any official map. It’s just there, on Sargent’s Mesa in Colorado on the Continental Divide. Here’s a slideshow. Here’s a video.

This is amazing.