I was born after Vietnam, and though the Vietnam Memorial is very powerful (watching uniformed men and women getting ready for Iraq walk by it when I was in DC last really made me stop and shake my head in disgust at what this President has done), Vietnam to me is still very abstract. It is only what I've seen in movies, and read in books (I heart Tim O'Brien). It's also the subject you didn't talk about with my high school girlfriend's step-dad.
What's most moving about the Vietnam Memorial is how its a scar on the national mall. Among all the white-marbled buildings, there's a black cut in to the ground with thousands of names, lost in vain.
And just like Vietnam there will be an Iraq War Memorial. It will be Bush's legacy. Regardless of what all these Neo-clowns, kool-aid drinkers, and timid Democrats are thinking now, in 50 years all that anyone might remember is the "Bush's War" Memorial in DC, and the colossal blunder that was Iraq.