The Vietnam Memorial Wall

So what do you guys think of the statues?

The first time I was at the Wall, there were no statues. The second
time, the three soldiers. I was there most recently in January, when
presumably the nurse(s?) had been added, but apparently I didn't
notice.

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So what do you guys think of the statues?

The first time I was at the Wall, there were no statues. The second
time, the three soldiers. I was there most recently in January, when
presumably the nurse(s?) had been added, but apparently I didn't
notice.

The soldiers were there in late 2000 when we visited. Don't recall any
nurses, but there was a bronze of three soldiers facing the Wall when I
was there.

I liked them and they were good work, but the Wall was what grabbed and
held the attention. On the other hand, the statues were a reminder that
every one of those names had a face.

I'm not much on artistic analysis; I just know that the Vietnam Memorial
moved me deeply. (The Korean memorial got to me as well, mind you)

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I'm not much on artistic analysis; I just know that the Vietnam Memorial
moved me deeply. (The Korean memorial got to me as well, mind you)

I've not been to DC for nearly 30 years, so I've obviously not seen
the Vietnam Memorial.
The Washington Monument was interesting as a structure. The
Lincoln memorial was impressive and moving, Jefferson's "right".
Arlington, well, quieting.
But I was by Mt Rushmore some years back and it moved me
in a way beyond any thing I expected or can understand even now.

I liked them and they were good work, but the Wall was what grabbed and
held the attention. On the other hand, the statues were a reminder that
every one of those names had a face.

That's a good thought. Thanks.

I put a good face on them also (as it were!). What I figured was: here
are these three guys, back from a patrol, surprised as hell to
discover that 58,000 of their countrymen are dead in the war.


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On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 05:29:04 -0400, Cub Driver
wrote:


So what do you guys think of the statues?

The first time I was at the Wall, there were no statues. The second
time, the three soldiers. I was there most recently in January, when
presumably the nurse(s?) had been added, but apparently I didn't
notice.

The statues are extraneous at best--the addy little to the impact of
the memorial, and politically correct at worst. The implication that
the losses were shared equitably among the races and exclusively by
the Army is wrong. Might want to consider Burkitt's "Stolen Valor" for
the stats on much of this.

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8

The statues are extraneous at best--the addy little to the impact of
the memorial, and politically correct at worst.

Yes. Excruciating.

The implication that
the losses were shared equitably among the races and exclusively by
the Army is wrong.

I didn't mind that so much. (It would be hard to put a statute of a
F-105 there.) I didn't think of the grunts as being exclusively army;
they could stand for the marines as well.

But what a keg of worms you open up! Now the medics will be asking to
be included along with the nurses....

Might want to consider Burkitt's "Stolen Valor" for
the stats on much of this.

I'm astonished as to the popularity of this book, which I discovered
only recently. It had a real jump during the Kerry arguments, up to
#300 on Amazon if I'm not mistaken. Now it's fallen back.

www.warbirdforum.com/valor.htm



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Cub Driver writes:


So what do you guys think of the statues?

The first time I was at the Wall, there were no statues. The second
time, the three soldiers. I was there most recently in January, when
presumably the nurse(s?) had been added, but apparently I didn't
notice.


As I recall, it was the infamous James Watt who demanded the
three soldiers be added. He did not care for the Wall at all;
perhaps because it was designed by "a foreigner"....
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