| "If you are able, save for them a place inside of you and save one backward glance when you are leaving for the places they can no longer go. Be not ashamed to say you loved them, though you may or may not have always. Take what they have taught you with their dying and keep it with your own. And in that time when men decide and feel safe to call war insane, take one moment to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind." Major Michael Davis O'Donnell 1 January 1970 Dak to, Vietnam Listed as KIA February 7, 1978 |
| THE WALL The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA website is dedicated to those who died in the Vietman War. (touch hand to to enter their site) |
| Vietnam Veterans Memorial "This memorial if for those who have died, and for us to remember them." Maya Ting Lin, designer, Vietnam veterans Memorial Wall The Vietnam Veterans Memorial recognize and honors the men and women who sered in one of Americ's most divisive wars. The memorial grew out of a need to heal the nation's wounds as America struggled to reconcile different moral and political points of view. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a place where everyone, regardless of opinion, can come together and remember and honor those who served. By doing so, the memorial has paved the way towards reconciliation and healing, a process that continues today. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial accomplishes these goals through the three components that comprise the memorial: the Wall of names, the Three Servicemen Statue and flagpole, and the Vietnam Women's Memorial www.nps.gov/vive/home.htm |
THE VIETNAM WOMEN'S MEMORIAL
When Diane Evans, a former army nurse in Vietnam, first saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,
she felt something was missing. Her efforts to highlight the service of women in Vietnam were
rewarded on November 11, 1993, when the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated.
The Sculpture, designed by Texas nativeGlenna Goodacre, depicts three uniformed women with a
wounded soldier. While one nursc comforts the soldier, another kneels in though of prayer. The third
looks to the skies-for help from a medevac helicopter, or perhaps from a higher power
The women's was was different from the men's - instead of exploding in the jungle, it blew up in the
mind. Surrounded by death, the nurses had to shut down emotionally. They could not show their
frrlingd to the soldiers they were trying to heal. Like the Vietnam Wall, The Vietnam Womem's
Memorial has brough healing. (Click mouse on picture to go to their site.)
When Diane Evans, a former army nurse in Vietnam, first saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial,
she felt something was missing. Her efforts to highlight the service of women in Vietnam were
rewarded on November 11, 1993, when the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated.
The Sculpture, designed by Texas nativeGlenna Goodacre, depicts three uniformed women with a
wounded soldier. While one nursc comforts the soldier, another kneels in though of prayer. The third
looks to the skies-for help from a medevac helicopter, or perhaps from a higher power
The women's was was different from the men's - instead of exploding in the jungle, it blew up in the
mind. Surrounded by death, the nurses had to shut down emotionally. They could not show their
frrlingd to the soldiers they were trying to heal. Like the Vietnam Wall, The Vietnam Womem's
Memorial has brough healing. (Click mouse on picture to go to their site.)