hoses, buckets, scrub brushes and cleaned the vietnam veterans memorial wall by hand, a solemn, relatively new tradition that serves as a reminder of what unites us instead of what divides. these enormous pieces of black granite which emerged from the national mall like a wound are the names of 58,318 service men and service women who lost their lives fighting in one of america s longest wars. the vietnam war. in a town so often divided, today members of congress from both parties were united and came together to wash this wall by hand ahead of memorial day. republican congressman mike walls from florida is a green beret who did combat tours in afghanistan, the middle east and africa. he organized this bipartisan event with fellow lawmakers who have also served. it s a reminder for us, the
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refuge. this is an area where there aren t any houses but there s a lot of fuel. there s timber and there s cedars and little scrub brushes. there s two helicopters on scene. 129 people trying to put this fire out. 16,000 acres, only 25% contained. wind blowing 25 miles per hour. they may even lose some of that 25% containment because we just shot these pictures, wftv shot these pictures not literally 30 minutes ago. did you see that long line of fire? that s not contained at all. chad, thank you. now to a developing story out of germany where u.s. troops have now come under attack. two american troops are dead, two more seriously wounded. take a look at where it happened. a marked u.s. military bus sat youtd side terminal 2 at the