frogprince, thanks for mentioning Joel Mabus's "Touch a Name on the Wall," one of my favorites in this genre. the lyrics are posted on Joel's site, at http://joelmabus.com/288_lyrics.htm#name%20wall.

Although there are a lot of great songs mentioned in this thread, I am moved most by those that tell a very personal story as opposed to the more didactic ones. Another in this category is "Teardrops Falling in the Snow" http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=32367, Unfortunately it is marred by the maudlin final verse about the mother and son meeting in heaven. I change the ending to "Scenes like this have been repeated, far too many times I know, Mothers waiting at the station, their teardrops falling in the snow."