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Vietnam Women's Memorial

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Goodacre Sculptor/(copyright symbol)", "1993 Vietnam Women's Memorial Project, Inc.", and the foundry's mark. Three of the statues are women nurses in uniform assisting a wounded soldier. One of the women is sitting on sandbags, holding the soldier. Another is holding the soldier's helmet while kneeling. The third woman is African American and is standing while looking up towards the sky. The surrounding landscape includes eight yellowwood trees that represent the eight American servicewomen who died during the Vietnam War: Eleanor Grace Alexander, Pamela Dorothy Donovan,
407: 270:. Noting the memorial's focus on men who served during the war, she wanted to also memorialize the more than 11,500 American women who served as nurses and in other roles. Two years later, she and two other veterans, attorney Donna-Marie Boulay and Gerald C. Bender, formed the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation (VWMF), whose goal was to erect a memorial to the women who assisted in the war. In addition to the memorial, the group's other goals was locating all women veterans of the war, and educating the public about their sacrifices. 500: 416: 597: 593: 29: 322:, who had designed the Wall, opposed the women's memorial, giving credence to other opponents of the plan. According to Lin, "In allowing this addition you substantiate the assumption that our national monuments can be tampered with by private interest groups years after the monuments have undergone the proper legal and asthetic approval processes." 377:, which states the CFA and NCPC must approve new memorials in the city. The CFA and NCPC approved the plan the following year, and chose a site south of the Wall for the memorial. By 1990, the VWMF had raised almost half of its goal of $ 3.5 million. A competition for a new design began in August of that year, with the winner receiving $ 20,000. 491:, was cancelled in 2018 due to a lack of funding. At the 25th anniversary in 2018, there was a candlelight remembrance ceremony, a storytelling program for children, and multiple speakers. During the 30-year anniversary in 2023, another candlelight ceremony took place at the memorial, and the keynote address was given by Evans. 531:
The memorial is composed of four bronze statues resting on a granite base. The sculpture is approximately 6.7-feet (2 m) tall, 7.9-feet (2.4 m) wide, and 5.8-feet (1.8 m) long. The base is 8-inches (20.3 cm) tall and the diameter is around 9.7-feet (3 m). Inscriptions on the sculpture include "Glenna
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in attendance, who had lost both legs during battle in Vietnam, was upset the memorial was installed 300 feet (91 m) south of the Wall, insisting it should be closer "because these women were the last people those guys saw or talked to before they died." In addition to the dedication ceremony, there
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There were 317 entries for the design. The sculptor chosen was Eileen Barry, who submitted a design of a bronze woman facing the Wall. Also included in the winning design was a water feature and bronze relief. The design then headed back to the CFA and NCPC for final approval. Those groups could not
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to the south, and Constitution Avenue to the north. Landscape architect George Dickie chose the site of the Vietnam Women's Memorial based on three important factors: a location where the Wall was visible from the Memorial; accessibility to the Memorial; and a good fit and addition to the existing
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to both men and women who served in Vietnam. The design that was sponsored in the bill was of a lone woman nurse in uniform. This design, by Rodger M. Brodin, was criticized as it was too plain and only represented an officer. After years of lobbying and with the help of the aforementioned
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governor's Task Force on Women Veterans, said "To the majority of Americans, the word 'veteran' implies 'male.' The statue of three men representing women's contributions is ludicrous. It's an insult that the commission even suggested recognizing us with a plaque on a park bench."
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The memorial is historically inaccurate as "it depicts nurses giving medical care on the field of battle, such care was only given by U.S. Army medics and U.S. Navy corpsmen, with nurses working exclusively in military hospitals."
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nurse, co-founded the Vietnam Women's Memorial Foundation (VWMF) in 1984 with two other veterans. It took years of lobbying and attending dozens of meetings for the memorial to finally be approved. With assistance from members of
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to be interviewed. The response was positive, and some male veterans began offering their services to assist the project's approval. Evans attended over 35 meetings with bureaucrats to seek approval for the monument.
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Since its installation, the memorial has been the site of annual gatherings to mark its anniversary. Around the time of the 20th anniversary in 2013, Evans and the
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and other dignitaries were in attendance, along with approximately 25,000 onlookers. Since then, there have been numerous anniversary gatherings at the memorial.
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Their idea was repeatedly turned down for the next several years. The women were mocked and received death threats. According to Evans, she discovered how much
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they would have to overcome to meet their goal. One person told Evans that if women were to be memorialized, so would the Canine Corps. Television journalist
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statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The three groupings of the memorial are in Constitution Gardens, a park on the
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Healing Wounds: A Vietnam War Combat Nurse's 10-Year Fight to Win Women a Place of Honor in Washington, D.C.
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in sponsoring a House version of the bill. Durenberger said Public Law 96-297, signed in 1980 by President
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the memorial. Before the memorial was dedicated, organizers took the sculpture on a tour across the U.S.
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wanted an underground education center that would cover not just the women's memorial, but the
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were many other events marking the occasion. Two such events were a women's march down
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is a memorial dedicated to the nurses and women of the United States who served in the
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to sculpt the memorial after previously rejecting the idea for a memorial to women.
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statue represented all who served. Veteran Jill A. Mishkel, who worked on the
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heard about the reference to dogs and invited several women who had served in
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American Civilian and Military Women Who Died in the Vietnam War (1959-1975)
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to approve a "woman's statue" on June 15, 1988, that would be installed in
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and the Wall as well. The plan to build the education center, called
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sponsored a bill to erect the memorial. They were joined by
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Vietnam War monuments and memorials in the United States
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Boundary markers of the original District of Columbia
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Founders of the Daughters of the American Revolution
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Welch, Bob; Carlson Evans, Diane; Galloway, Joseph,
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Photograph of the Vietnam Women's Memorial
Carol M. Highsmith
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Washington, D.C.
Glenna Goodacre
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women in the Vietnam War
Official website
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
National Mall
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United States Commission of Fine Arts
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Congress
Veterans Day
Al Gore
Diane Carlson Evans
U.S. Army
Vietnam War
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
misogyny
Morley Safer
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