Short response question: Using the RACE Method, write and develop ideas by citing evidence from the text. In lines 23–24 of "The Vietnam Wall," the speaker mentions that the names on the wall are presented in order of death, not in alphabetical order. Why do you think the speaker finds it important to mention the way the names are arranged? What are the effects of that arrangement? Use your own reasoning as well as details from the poem to help you answer.

"The names are not alphabetized.

They are in the order of dying.

An alphabet of—somewhere—screaming."