LA.com's Sun Spotted series takes you to the Santa Monica Pier where the reflective (read: introspective) and the reflective (read: pale) enjoyed the holiday sun over the 2009 Memorial Day weekend. 

Just north of the the mini amusement park you can pay your respects at Arlington West -- a temporary memorial created every Sunday from sunrise to sunset by the organization, Veterans For Peace.

Visually and emotionally powerful, Arlington West offers visitors a graceful place to ponder the atrocities of war while ogling nearly naked women, giant dogs and our eco-friendly ferris wheel.



Photos by Karen Farrah Oswald for LA.com