FRED ZWICKY/JOURNAL STAR Don Clemons Jr., who accompanied veteran Lewis Stratton of Chillicothe, reaches out and touches the Vietnam memorial wall as they take in the sheer loss of life from the conflict. The rain poured down but spirits were lifted as 85 area veterans  traveledw ith the Greater Peoria Honor Flight to Washington D.C. to see the monuments to the wars that they fought in.