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7/8/02The Vietnam Wall Controversy
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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS: files not included or identified96th Congress, 2nd Session. Senate Report 96-832. June 25th 1980. Conference Report to accompany S.J.
119. SRP. 832 X 96-2:S.RP. 83296th Congress, 2nd Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Report 96-1129. June 25th, 1980. Item Number 1008-D. Conference Report to accompany S.J. Res. 119
include some key vietnam war dates or a chronology of the war
May 7: "The Re-Entry Problem of the Vietvets," by William Barry Furlong, New York Times Magazine,
05/07/67, 23, 115-21
Jan 12: "Oh, You're Back?" Time, 01/12/68, 15
John Wayne's film The Green Berets based on the 1965 novel by Robin Moore. See:
Alasdair Spark, "The Soldier at the Heart of the War: The Myth of the Green Beret," Journal of American Studies 18.1 (1984): 29-48.May 28: Scruggs is wounded near Xuan Loc.
Jun 27: Life magazine humanizes the "body count" by publishing the photographs of all 242 soldiers killed
that week.Nov 13: The "March Against Death" in Washington."The American Dead in Vietnam," Life, 06/27/69, 20-32.Nov 15: "Wounded Unembittered by War Critics," Nan Robertson, New York Times, 11/15/69, 1:20
Dec **: The events at My Lai become public.
Jan 21: Scruggs witnesses 12 friends killed while unloading an ammo truck. ref?
xxx xx: The tv film Welcome Home Johnny Bristol about a returning P.O.W.
xxx xx: The term "Post-Vietnam Syndrome" (later "Post-traumatic Disorder") is coined.
Feb **: The Winter Soldier Investigation (read into the Congressional Record by Senator Hatfield, April 6-7)
Apr 19: The "March on Washington" organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
May 26: "From Dakto to Detroit: The Death of a Troubled Hero," by Jon Nordheimer, New York Times,
05/26/71, A1Jun 05: "Public Jobs for the Jobless," New York Times, 06/05/71, 1:28
Jun 07: "'Syndrome' Found in Returned G.I.'s," by Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, 06/07/71, 1:7
May 03: "Delayed Trauma in Veterans Cited," New York Times, 05/03/72, 1:19
Jul 06: "The Next Nick Adams," by William Pelfrey, New York Times, 07/06/72, 1:37
Aug 21: "Postwar Shock Besets Ex-G.I.s," by Jon Nordheimer, New York Times, 08/21/72, 1: 1, 22-34
Sep 15: 2 op-eds by vets in NYT
Oct 23: "President Praises Returning G.I.'s," Linda Charlton, New York Times, 10/23/72, A1
Jan **: Congress approves the creation of a Tomb of the Unknown at Arlington.
Feb **: "New Profiles in Courage," by Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Reader's Digest, February 1973,
126-31Feb 08: House Joint resolution 338 to honor the war dead with a grove of trees, introduced by
Representative Paul Findley of Illinois, passes but goes nowhere.Feb 14: "Flag at Full Staff Today for Captives," New York Times, 02/14/73, 1:16
Feb 28: "M. I. A. Culpa," by Nicholas von Hoffman, Washington Post, 02/28/73, B1
Mar 03: Study by Ralph Nader: Troubled Peace.
Mar 04: "Viet Combat G. I.'s Held Shortchanged," by Peter Braestrup, Washington Post, 03/04/73,
2:25Mar 05: "The Vets: Heroes as Orphans," Newsweek, 03/05/73, 22, 24
Mar 05: "The Permanent War Prisoners," Newsweek, 03/05/73, 23-24
Mar 08: A broadcast of David Rabe's Sticks and Bones is cancelled:
Mar 10: "Texas Group Plans Salute to Vietnam Veterans at Cotton Bowl," Washington Post,"Stones for 'Sticks,'" by Tom Shales, Washington Post, 03/08/73, E11.
03/10/73, A4Mar 12: "Forgotten Warriors?" Time, 03/12/73, 17-18
Mar 30: Final U.S. troops withdrawn from Vietnam.
Mar 31: "The Washington Merry-Go-Round," by Jack Anderson, Washington Post, 03/10/73, D31
May 25: "Ex-P.O.W.'s Cheer," John Herbers, New York Times, 05/25/73, 1:1
Jun 02: "400 Ex-P.O.W.'s Are Given $400,000 Dallas Reception," New York Times, 06/02/73, 1:8
Nov 20: Senator Alan Cranston puts a Veteran's Administration letter asking for legislation to deal with the
personal problems of returning vets into the Congressional Record (vol 119, Part 29, 37748-49);
Scruggs refers to this letter in his 1977 Congressional testimony. (Course Documents)Dec 07: House Joint Resolutions #381 and #865 establish a "Vietnam Veterans Day" for March 30,
1974.
Mar 29: "The Real Honors," New York Times, 03/29/74, A34 ["The Class That Went to War"?? 12/2/77]
Mar 30: "Viet Vets: A Sad Reminder, Day of Tribute Evokes Pain, Rage," by William Greider, Washington
Post, 03/30/74, A5Sep 25: Meanwhile, On the Hill, Lobbying and Politicking As Usual," by William V. Shannon, New York
Times, 09/25/74, 1:39Oct 29: "Ford Orders Federal Agencies to Hire 70,000 Vietnam Era Veterans by July 1," by Philip Shabecoff,
New York Times, 10/29/74, 1:29
Apr 05: Editorial, New York Times, 04/05/75, ??
Apr 14: "How Should Americans Feel?" Time, 04/14/75, 27
Apr 21: "Last Exit from Vietnam," Time, 04/21/75, 7
Apr 30: Fall of Saigon (articles -- Newsweek -- see Dudley)
May 07: President Ford declares this day the end of the Vietnam War era.
Jul 19: "TV's Newest Villain: The Vietnam Veteran," by R. Brewin, TV Guide, 07/19/75, 4
Aug 4: "The Invisible Vietnam Veteran," by James H. Webb, Washington Post, 08/04/76: A11 (Course
Documents) bio on Webb?
Jan 23: "The Old, Unhealed Wounds of Vietnam: Conversations with Three Veterans," by William Grieder,
Washington Post, 01/23/77, A1, 14Apr 18: "The VA's Max Cleland: A New Kind of Battle," by Myra MacPherson, Washington Post, 04/18/77, B1
May 25: "Forgotten Veterans of 'That Peculiar War," by Jan Craig Scruggs, Washington Post, 05/25/77: A17
(Lexis-Nexis: use Sources) bio on Scruggs?Jun 22: Scruggs testifies at a Senate Hearing on the Veteran's Health Care Amendments Act of 1977
(Hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Readjustment of the Committee on Veterans'
Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1693 and H. R. 6502)
(Course Documents)In his testimony, Scruggs cites his work as consistent with that of Robert J. Lifton, Home from
the War. put section in Course Documents add to bibRobert J. Lifton, "The Post-War War," Journal of Social Issues, 31.4 (1975): 181-96.Dec 02: "The Class That Went to War," Washington Post, 12/02/77, ???? editorial [3/29/74??]
xxx xx: The movie Coming Home ?????
Apr 08: "A Plaque for Vietnam," by Josh Martin, Nation, 04/08/78, 389
May 28: "Walking Amid History at Arlington Cemetery," by Richard Cohen, Washington Post, 05/28/78, B5
May 29: Editorial, Washington Post, 05/29/78, ????
May 29: "'Range of Intangibles' Said Hurting Viet Vets the Most," by Warren Brown, Washington Post,
05/29/78, A9May 29: "Vietnam Vets: Does Congress Finally Understand?" by Colman McCarthy, Washington Post,
05/29/78, A21Aug 05: Scruggs writes bitterly of continued Congressional inaction to help veterans.
Nov 12: "Veterans Day: 'Ignored' Men of Vietnam Owed a Debt, Carter Says," by Stephanie Mansfield,"Continuing Indifference to Vietnam Veterans," by Jan C. Scruggs, Washington Post, 08/05/78: A15 (Lexis-Nexis?)
Washington Post, 11/12/78, C1Dec 24: Tv movie Green Eyes.
Jan 29: "Vietnam Veterans -- Peace at Last?" U. S. News and World Report, 01/29/79, 16
Mar **: Scruggs sees The Deer Hunter, after which, he says several times, he conceived the idea of a
memorial (file of articles and reviews on the Deer Hunter in Course Documents)Mar **: Scruggs' proposal for a memorial falls flat at a meeting of forty veterans planning activities for the
upcoming Vietnam Veterans Week, but he meets Robert W. Doubek, who suggests forming a
corporation. bio on Doubek?Mar 27: "How [Now?] Vietnam Veterans [Vets?] Demand Their Rights," by Bernard Weinraub, New York
Times Magazine, 03/27/79: 30-33Apr 22: 64 million people watch the television movie Friendly Fire, about families trying to reconcile with
the Vietnam war. reviews? notices?Apr 23: "Heroes Without Honor Face the Battle at Home," Time, 04/23/79, 31
Apr 27: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund is incorporated as a non-profit corporationwith Scruggs as
President and Doubek as Secretary.Apr 28: "Vietnam Vets [Veterans?] Still Feel Chill from the White House," by Ward Sinclair, Washington
Post, 04/28/79: A2Apr 28: "Vietnam Vets [Veterans?] Needs Unfulfilled," by Jack Anderson, Washington Post, 04/28/79: E27
May 28: Scruggs holds a press conference to kick off fund raising.
May 28: Beginning of Vietnam Veterans Week. more articles -- NY Times?"Vietnam Veterans to Seek $1 Million for a Monument," New York Times, 05/28/79: A8 (Course Documents)May 30: White House dinner for Vietnam veterans article?"Memorial Day Services, Activities Planned in Area; Veterans Ask Vietnam War Remembrance; Veterans Urge Look at Lessons Of Vietnam War," by Thomas Morgan, Washington Post, 05/28/79, C1 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources) direct"'All Vietnam Veterans Have a Certain Hole in Their Soul That Can Only Be Healed with Special Thanks,'" by Thomas Morgan et al., Washington Post, 05/29/79, C1 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources) direct
"Vietnam Veterans Week: Is America Ready to Face Them?" by Myra MacPherson, WashingtonPost, 05/31/79, D1 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources) direct
"A Tale of Two Veterans," by Max Cleland, Washington Post, 05/28/79, A21
Jun **: Some poignant letters come in with small donations, but Roger Mudd reports wryly on the CBS"Honoring That Extra Measure of Sacrifice," by Myra MacPherson, Washington
Post, 05/31/79, D1
Evening News that only $144.50 has been collected, and Scruggs is made fun of by a late-night tv
comedian.John C. Wheeler becomes involved, meeting with Scruggs and Doubek. bio on Wheeler?
Aug **: Wheeler helps convene a meeting of veterans who become the nucleus of a volunteer corps.
A Fine Arts Commission official suggests a site near Arlington Cemetery that Scruggs and Wheeler
visit and find unacceptable.Aug 04: Scruggs' efforts bear fruit when New Jersey Senator Charles Mathias calls and asks to see him.
Aug 19: "The Screening of Vietnam," by James Webb, Washington Post, 08/19/79: L1
Sep **: Scruggs, Doubek, Wheeler, and three National Park Service officials meet with Senator Mathias,
who picks the Constitution Gardens site, near the Lincoln Memorial.Oct 24: Meeting with National Capital Memorial Advisory Committee results in an invitation to return in
January. transcript?Oct? Senator Warner and direct mail campaign
Oct 25: James Webb shows draft legislation to Congressman John Hammerschmidt of Arkansas, who
prematurely introduces legislation in the House (Congressional Record: Vol 125, Part 23, 29680) in
terms that the VVMF people feel might arouse opposition. (Course Documents)Nov 8: At a press conference (designed to coincide with Veteran's Day celebrations) led by Senator
Mathias, twenty-six senators announce they will back legislation introduced to build a memorial.Nov 11: Veteran's Day:"Vietnam War Memorial; Senate Bill Proposes Site on Mall," by Donald P. Baker, Washington Post, 11/9/79: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources) (Course Documents)Nov 13: "What the Vietnam Veteran Needs," by James Webb, Congressional Record: Vol 125, Part 24,"We Were Young. We Have Died. Remember Us," by Jan C. Scruggs, Washington Post, 11/11/79: B4 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources)"Vietnam Vets: Tomorrow's Leaders," by John B. Wheeler III, Washington Post, 11/12/79: A17 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources)
"Sad and Bitter Memories; Bitter Memories of War; Nation Honors Veterans, but Some Feel Forgotten," by Mike Sager, Washington Post, 11/12/79: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: use Sources)
32250 (reprinted from Marine Corps Gazette) (Course Documents)Dec 01: Full-time executive director is hired by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund; additional volunteer
staff is recruited.Dec 20: Senator Warner hosts breakfast fundraising.
???? Late 1979: Washington Post letter to the editor asking for war resistors on the monument ?????
Washington Star article by Scruggs???? Levi (150)
Jan 02: open office, begin direct mail campaign
Jan 16: First substantial contribution: $10,000 from Gruman Aircraft
Feb **: H. Ross Perot makes the second substantial contribution, also $10,000: VVMF memo details Perot
involvement through 12/15/81. (Course Documents)Feb 12: Commission of Fine Arts
Feb 22: Letter from Brown to Peterson indicating the Commission of Fine Arts would rather not have a
specific site designated in legislation. (Course Documents)Feb 22: Direct mail campaign begins: $34,000 pledged so far toward 2.5 million goal.
Mar 05: press conference to get House support"Vietnam Veterans Plan Memorial in Capital as Reconciliation Sign," by Richard Halloran, New York Times, 02/25/80: A15 (Course Documents) (Lexis-Nexis?)Mar 12: HEARING before the Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources. The Senate.
S.J. Res. 119. March 12, 1980. Publication # 96-111. (Course Documents)Mar 22: "A Vietnam Memorial," by Jan Scruggs, Washington Post, 03/22/80, A13 (Course Documents)
Apr 26: "The Making Of a Monument; Moving Monument; Planning for the Vietnam Vet's Memorial," by
Wolf Von Eckardt, Washington Post, 04/26/80: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Apr 30: Senate approves legislation.
(late?) April: article by James J. Kilpatrick urging contributions96th Congress, 2nd Session. Senate. Calendar no. 709 Report 96-663. April 24th, 1980. Senate passes the joint resolution 119, with an amendment. SRP.663 X96-2:S.RP 663 (Course Documents??)Congressional Record, Senate. April 30th, 1980. Vietnam Veterans Memorial. #9431 (Course Documents)
May 08: "The Wounds of Vietnam," by James J. Kilpatrick, Washington Star, 05/08/80, A15
May 20: House approves legislation: Congressional Record, House May 20th, 1980. Authorizing The Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc., To Establish a Memorial. #11834 (Course Documents)is this memorial day stuff?"House Approves Bill to Establish a Memorial to Vietnam War Dead," New York Times, 05/22/80: A24 (Course Documents) (Lexis-Nexis?)May 25: "I Wish We Were More Troubled," by Tim O'Brien, Washington Post, 05/25/80, B3 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)May 25: "After Vietnam: Voices Of A Wounded Generation," Washington Post, 05/25/80, B1 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)May 26: "Vietnam Memorial: Another Symbol of Frustration for Vets," by Ward Sinclair, Washington Post,
05/26/80: A3 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Memorial Day: services at which Senator Mathias spoke, covered by papers
May 27: "Memorial Day Highlights Legacy of Different Wars; Two Memorial Day Services Contrast Legacy of
Vietnam and Other Wars," by Ronald D. White, Washington Post, 05/27/80: C1 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)May 30: president Carter ceremony marking first Vietnam Veterans Week??
May 30: "Needless Obstacle," New Republic, 05/31/80, ???
May-June-July????: Spreiregan is hired as strategist
June 24: Mathias reception to celebrate House/Senate agreement, covered by papers Washington Post
storyJun 26: "Moving the Memorial," by Carlin Romano, Washington Post, 06/25/80: B8 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)Jun 28: "About Politics: Memorializing the Vietnam War Dead," by Francis X. Cline(s), New York Times,
06/28/80: A7Jul 01: President Carter signs legislation. other stories?
Jul 13: "The Hidden Tomb of the Vietnam Unknown," by Willy Arnheim, Washington Post, 07/13/80: E4The law: PL 96 - 297 (Course Documents)Remarks on signing legislation: President Carter and others (Course Documents)
is there a NYT editorial on this besides the following article?
????"Carter Hails Veterans of Vietnam in Signing Bill for a War Memorial," by Bernard Weinraub, New York Times, 07/02/80: A14 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers) Lexis link???
"Carter Clears Vietnam Memorial; Survey Backs More Veteran Aid," Washington Post, 07/02/80: A21 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"Vietnam Vets: 'This nation cares,'" Christian Science Monitor, 07/03/80: 28 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
(Lexis-Nexis)Jul 30: "Moving the Memorial" Washington Post, 06/25/1980, B, 8. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
August: move to a larger office
Aug 10: "Cold Stone Man," by Lewis W. Bruchey, Washington Post, 08/10/80, C4
Aug 19: "Reagan Tells V.F.W. the U.S. Must Accept Arms Race or Lose to Soviet," New York Times,
08/19/80, A1Sep 02: "Vietnam Veteran Grateful to Reagan," by Tom Carhart, New York Times, 09/02/80, A22
(Lexis-Nexis?) (Course Documents)???? Sept: reject Hart's design, decide on competition ?????
???? Sept: article by Wolf von Eckardt in Washington Post?
Sept-Nov: design prospectus (all in Course Documents)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Design Competition (brochure/entry form)Oct 12: "Soldier's Home," by Gregory D. Foster, New York Times, 10/12/80, D21Design Competition Advisor and Jury Biographies
Design Competition: Judging Criteria
Oct 31: "War in Memories," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 10/31/80, 8:9
Nov 11: "Design Competition For Vietnam Memorial," by Paul Richard, Washington Post, 11/11/80: B7
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 24:
Dec **: "Coming to Terms with Vietnam," by Peter Marin, Harpers, December 1980, 41-56
Dec **: "A Veteran Writes," by Fred Reed, Harpers, December 1980, 44
Dec 31: VVMF: Design Program: The Vietnam Memorial Design Competition" (information package sent to prospective competitors), Washington, Dec 31, 1980, 16
??? Cincinnati Inquirer art critic?????
Jan 21: Iran hostages freed -- ??? Webb has article after this in Washington Post?????
Feb: Scruggs goes full time Perot gives $160,000?????
Feb 01: "Vietnam Veterans Parade in Shadow of 52 Hostages," by Iver Peterson, New York Times, 02/01/81, A22
Feb 12: "An Unpopular War, A Lasting Memorial; A Memorial to Those Who Died in Vietnam," by Paul
Hodge, Washington Post, 02/12/81: DC1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar 12: Perot agrees to fund the competition
Mar 31: competition deadline
Apr 21: Perot agrees to send the $160,000 for the competition and states that he does not want to see a
"flower power" memorial.Apr 26: National Day of Recognition for Veterans of the Vietnam Era (CBS commentary??)
Apr 27: "A Tardy Tribute to the Veterans of a Divisive War," by Mike Seger, Washington Post, 04/27/81: C3
Apr 27 - May 1: judging
May 01: Winner is chosen
May 04: Scruggs informs Perot of the winning design and gets a negative reaction.
May 04: Letter from Spreiregen answering questions about having a veteran on the jury. (Course Documents)
May 06: news conference announcing winner (see references p. 69 in Healing)
Lin's Boundaries essay (Course Documents)Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post too?"Design Competition: Winning Designer's Statement," Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (Course Documents)
"Student Wins War Memorial Contest," New York Times, 05/07/81: A20 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"Epitaph for Vietnam; Monument to the Forgotten; Memorial Design Is Selected," by Henry Allen, Washington Post, 05/07/81: F1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
May 13: Perot tells Scruggs he will not come to the Memorial Day celebration because he would have to say he
doesn't like the design. Feels the design is not for those who came home living.May 16: "Inadequate Memorial," two letters to the editor, Washington Post, 05/16/81: A12 (Course
Documents)May 16: "Of Heart & Mind; Vietnam War Memorial; The Serene Grace of The Vietnam Memorial," by Wolf
Von Eckardt, Washington Post 05/16/81: B1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)May 16: "Colonel Is Fired Over Article Criticizing Vietnam Memorial," by Charles McCollum, Washington Star,
05/16/81: A1 (Course Documents) mentions article in Pentagon NewsMay 18: ????"Remembering Vietnam," New York Times, 5/18/81: A18 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
May 21: "A Winning Design to Honor the Dead," [letters to the editor by Spreiregen and Gerlach] Washington
Star, 05/21/81 (Course Documents)May 23: "Washington Diarist: Memorials" by Charles Krauthammer, New Republic May 23, 1981: 43 (Course
Documents) LN?$250,000 at Radiothon somewhere in here
*****June "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Design Competition," Architectual Record, 169, 47. (ill'd 3.14.02)
*****June "Unmonumental Vietnam Memorial" AIA Journal, 70, 17 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Jun 01: "Remembering What?" Wall Street Journal, 06/01/81: 26 (Course Documents) DJ?
Jun 05: "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: A Description of the Design Concept," Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Fund (Course Documents)June: Dept of Interior -- National Capital Memorial Advisory Board Committee
Jun 01: "Bringing the Vietnam Vets Home," by Lance Morrow, Time, 06/01/81, 45
Jun 28: "Clouds of Doubt Engulf Viet Nam Memorial," by Paul Gapp, Chicago Tribune, 06/28/81: G12 have
******Jun 28: "Proposed Memorial to Vietnam War Inane," Chicago Tribune, 06/28/81, V1, 12 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Jun 29: ????"A Vietnam Memorial and a Few Ironies," New York Times, by B. Drummond Ayres Jr.,
06/29/81: B5 "A Vietnam Memorial and a Few Ironies," New York Times, by B. Drummond Ayres Jr.,
06/29/81: B5 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers) a Yale senior is headlineJun 30: "Remembering Vietnam Veterans," by Jan C. Scruggs, Wall Street Journal, 6/30/81: 31 (Course
Documents) DJ?Jul 07: Commission of Fine Arts meets (minutes and transcript and statement in Course Documents)
Jul 13: "The Forgotten Warriors," Time, 07/13/81, 20Letter from Chairman Brown about their decision. (Course Documents)Jul 23: "None But the Dead?" by Douglas Womack, Washington Star, 07/23/81 (Course Documents)
*****July 30: "Profile: Roger Brodin," by Craig MacIntosh," Minneapolis Star. (ill'd 3.16.02)
Aug**: "An Extraordinary Competition," by Allen Freeman, AIA Journal, August 1981: 47-53
Aug 06: National Capital Planning Commission approves
Sep 18: "Stop That Monument," National Review, 18 September 1981: 1064 (Course Documents)
Oct 13: Commission of Fine Arts meeting (minutes, transcript, and statements in Course Documents)
*****Oct 14: "Commission Rejects Veteran's Protest, Reapproves Vietnam Memorial Design" Washigton Post C, 3. (ill'd 3.14.02)ostensibly the granite issue -- carhart does his thingFacts About the Vietnam Memorial (after the Oct 13, 1981, Commission of Fine Arts meeting)
Oct 15: "Vietnam: In Memoriam," Plain Dealer, 10/15/81: A28 (Course Documents) LN?
Oct 16: "Vietnam War Memorial," by James J. Kilpatrick, National Review, 16 October 1981: 1170 (Course
Documents) reply to Sept 18 editorialOct 24: "Insulting Vietnam Vets," by Tom Carhart, New York Times, 10/24/81: 1:23 (Lexis-Nexis
Newspapers)Oct 24: 60 Minutes???? or is that another year????
Oct 28: Press conference to announce inscription
Nov & Dec: see p. 85 in Heal: Wolf von Eckardt, National Review again
Nov 04: Letter from Scruggs answering Carhart. (Course Documents)
Nov 05: Perot tells Scruggs that he has received many letters from veterans disliking the design, and he asks for
Carhart's phone number.Nov 08: "Memories That Shape Our Future(s)," by William Greider, Washington Post, 11/08/81: C1-2
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 08: "Viet Vets: Doing It Ourselves," by William Vogt, Washington Post, 11/08/81, C1
Nov 09: "Storm over a Viet Nam Memorial," by Wolf Von Eckhardt, Time, 9 November 1981: 103 (Course
Documents) LN?Nov 10: Commission of Fine Arts meeting
Nov 11: "How to Remember Vietnam," New York Times, 11/11/81: A30 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)final approaval givenpacket of letters received after the Oct and Nov meetings (Course Documents)
Letter of Francis Watson(Course Documents)
Nov 11: "Free the Veterans," Wall Street Journal, 11/11/81 (Course Documents) DJ?
Nov 11: "Finally, We Honor the Vietnam Dead," by James J. Kilpatrick, Washington Post, 11/11/81: A27
(Course Documents) LN?Phyllis Corbitt, letter to the ed. New York Times, 11/11/81: A30
Nov 14: "Model of Simplicity; Another Look at the Vietnam Memorial; Model," by Benjamin Forgey,
Washington Post, 11/14/81, C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 15: "A Better Way to Honor Viet Vets," Tom Carhart, Washington Post, 11/15/81: C5 (Course
Documents) LN?Nov 16: Letter from Webb to Clay. (Course Documents)
Nov 20: Letter to Watt by several members of the House. (Course Documents)
Nov 22: "War Is a Very Private Agony," New York Times, 11/22/81, 4:24 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Nov 24: Letter from Webb to Scruggs, resigning from the National Sponsoring Committee. (Course
Documents)****Nov 24 "Letter" Washington Post, Nov 24, 1981, A, 16 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Dec 01: Letter from Grady Clay to Interior Secretary James Watt (Course Documents)
Dec 02: Scruggs responds to Webb over his resignation. (Course Documents)
Dec 02: Webb replies. (Course Documents)
Dec 03: National Capital Planning Commission?
*****Dec 04 "Personalities" by S. Zakaroudis and L. Romano, Washington Post D, 3. (ill'd 3.14.02)
Dec 07: press conference by critics making demands
Dec 07: "The Vietnam Memorial," by Milt Copulos -- press release? (Course Documents)
Dec 08: "Veterans Fault Viet [Vietnam] War Memorial Plans," by Norman Hannah, Washington Post, 12/08/81:
A11Dec 11: "Open Book Memorial," by Norman Hannah, National Review, 12/11/81: 1476
Dec 11: Perot tells Scruggs to stop plans for the memorial because of the controversy and offers to fund a new
competition. Scruggs tells him he will try to reach a compromise on the design.Dec 14: "Process for Selecting Design for National Vietnam Veterans Memorial," by Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Fund (Course Documents)Dec 14: Internal memo indicating Carhart is claiming that a possible Communist selected the design. (Course
Documents)Dec 14: "What Vietnam Did to Us: A Combat Unit Relives the War and the Decade Since," Newsweek,
12/14/81, 49Dec 15: AP story that Perot wants a Gallup poll on the design.
Dec 18: "Reassessing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," by James Webb, Wall Street Journal, 12/18/81: 22
(Course Documents) Dow Jones?Dec 21: "Publicity and Support for Memorial since Announcement of Design," by Vietnam Veterans
Memorial Fund (Course Documents)Dec 22: VFW presents big check (Rocky Bleier)
Dec 26: "An Insulting Memorial," by Patrick Buchanan, Chicago Tribune 12/26/81: N1 (Course Documents)
*****Dec 26: Memorial does not Honor Vietnam Vets, by P. Buchanan, Chicago Tribune, N, 1 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Dec 27: "Fund at Halfway Point For Vietnam Memorial," New York Times, 12/27/81, 1:51 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)Dec 30: Representative Henry Hyde begins his "Christmas offensive," sending a letter to Congresspeople and the
president (Course Documents)sometime late 1981: Tim O'Brien article -- Emmett Tyrrell in American Spectator
Jan 03: "Maya Lin and The Great Call Of China; The Fascinating Heritage of the Student Who Designed the
Vietnam Memorial," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 01/03/82: F1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Jan 04: Secretary Watts puts project on hold
Jan 07: Representative DeNardis circulates a "Dear Colleague" letter rebutting Hyde's. (Course Documents)
Jan 11: Symms and Helms etc to Watt. (Course Documents)
Jan 12: Hyde to President Reagan. (Course Documents)
Jan 13: "War Memorial Faces Hurdle at Interior," Washington Post, 01/13/82: A21 (Course Documents)
LN?Jan 13: "Watt Raises Obstacle On Vietnam Memorial," New York Times, 01/13/82: A12 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)Jan 14: "In Defense of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," by Jan C. Scruggs, Wall Street Journal, 01/14/82
(Course Documents) DJ?Jan 15: "Viet Memorial Opens Old Wounds," by Phyllis Schlafly, Buffalo Evening News, 01/15/82: 21 (Course
Documents)Jan 27: Senator Warner hosts a reconciliation party, compromise to add flag and statue?
Jan 28: Maya Lin and Scruggs etc on Good Morning America
Jan 28: White House Memo: Summary of Compromises on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Design (Course
Documents)Jan 30: "Flag, Hero Added: Stark Vietnam Veterans Memorial to Be Modified," by Mike Feinsilber,
Philadelphia Inquirer, 01/30/82 (Course Documents) LN?*****Feb "Politics Threaten to Engulf Vietnam Memorial Design" AIA Journal, 71, 13 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Feb 04: Watts agrees with a compromise
Feb 11: Letter from Scruggs to Watt asking for approval. (Course Documents)
Feb 19: "Vietnam Vets' Memorial May Begin in Two Weeks," by Paul Hodge, Washington Post, 02/19/82: A18
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Feb 22: "Tribute to Sacrifice," by Hugh Sidey, Time, 02/22/82: 19 (Course Documents) LN?
Feb 25: Watts writes to Fine Arts Commission (Brown) asking for their required approval. (Course
Documents)Feb 27: "Memorial Delayed; Vietnam Memorial To Be Reviewed," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post,
2/27/82: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar**: "Vietnam's Aftermath: Sniping at the Memorial." by Grady Clay, Landscape Architecture 72.2 (March
1982): 54-56 (Course Documents)Mar**: "Vietnam War Memorial Flap: Is It a "Black Wall of Shame"? by Michael J. Weiss, Washingtonian,
03/82 (Course Documents)Mar??: "Finally We Come Together, by Milton R. Copulos, Heritage Foundation have
Mar 02: Letter from James Marvin (Course Documents) have
Mar 03: "A Viet Vets Demand: Ask Us about Shrine!", by Hoag Levins, Philadelphia Daily News, 03/03/82: 18
(Course Documents)Mar 04: National Capital Planning Commission approves
Mar 05: "Vietnam Vet Memorial Action," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 03/05/82: B9 (Lexis-Nexis:files? haveDoubek's statement (Course Documents)
Newspapers)Mar 06: "Monumental 'Absurdity,'" by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 03/06/82: C5 (Course
Documents) LN?Mar 09: Chronology of Events:Involvement of Secretary of Interior in Approval of Design
Mar 09: Fine Arts Commission approves Minutes and Transcript (Course Documents)
Mar 09: Letter from Brown to Watts. (Course Documents)Doubek's statement (Course Documents)Letters about the proposed additions from Jan - March (Course Doucments)
Mar 10: "Commission Acts on Vets Memorial Design," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 03/10/82: B6
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar 11: meeting with Watts
Mar 11: Watts to Scruggs. (Course Documents)
article by Milt Copulos about the meeting
Joseph Zengerle in Washington Post
same or different?Mar 12: "Watt Okays a Memorial Plan; Site of Statue, Flagpole Still to Be Decided;Watt Approves Memorial
Plan With Changes," by Jean White, Washington Post, 03/12/82: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar 13: ?????"Watt Clears the Way for a War Memorial to Vietnam Veterans," New York Times, 03/13/82,
1:11(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar15: permit for construction
******March 22 "Watt approves a Vietnam Memorial," Newsweek, 38. (ill'd 3.14.02)
Mar 24: Senate press release: "Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Compromise Reached Warner Says" (Course
Documents)Mar 25: "Compromise on Vietnam Memorial," Washington Post, 03/25/82: B2
Mar 26: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Groundbreaking Ceremony
Mar 27: "Ground Broken in Capital for Memorial on Vietnam," by Bernard Weinraub, New York Times,program (Course Documents)
03/27/82, 1:1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar 27: "Reconciliation: Ground Broken for Shrine to Vietnam War Veterans," by P. McCombs, 03/27/82,
Washington Post: 14 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Jun 17: plans for sculpture -- working with Hart -- June 17, design accepted
Jul 02: "Sculptor Is Selected For Vietnam Statue," New York Times, 07/2/82: A12 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)Jul 07: "Maya Lin's Angry Objections, Vietnam Memorial Artist on Changes," by Rick Horowitz, Washington
Post, 07/07/82: B1 (Course Documents?) LN?Jul 08: "Art War Erupts Over Vietnam Veterans Memorial," by Isabel Wilkerson, Washington Post, 07/08/82,
D3(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)aricles by
Robert N. Lawrence,
Paul Spreiregan,
Harry WeeseJul 12: "Decisions and Revisions: The Vietnam Memorial," letters, Washington Post, 07/12/82: A14
Jul 15 "Vietnam Requiem" video airs
Jul 17: X"Vietnam Memorial: Drawing the Line," by D. DeVaull, Washington Post, 07/17/82: A22
Jul 17: "Monumental Problems Building Memorials in the Nation's Capital," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 07/17/82: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Jul 17: letters, Washington Post, 07/17/82: A22
Jul 20: panel put up, shown July 22
Jul 20?: "Memorial to Whom," by Charles Leidenfrost, Washington Post, 07/20/82: B7
Jul 22: "Memorial's First Names Unveiled," by Charles Fishman, Washington Post, 07/22/82: E3 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"Art in America" interviews by Hess with Lin and Hart somewhere in here
Jul 25: "Misplaced Memorials," by Colman McCarthy, Washington Post, 07/25/82: H5
Aug**: "Vietnam Memorial Designers, AIA Strongly Denounce Alterations," Journal of American Institute of Architects, 71 (Aug 1982): 9
Sep 02: Carhart sends VVMF leaders a preliminary copy of "Coming Out of the Shadows of Vietnam."
(Course Documents)Sep 14: Sample letter of invitation to the unveiling. (Course Documents)
Sep 16: Final Report of the Sculpture Panel to the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
(Course Documents)Sep 20: Hart unveils his statue design
articles around here:sample invitation (Course Documents) haveHart's Oct 20 statement (Course Documents?)
Economist (London)
Stars and StripesSep 20: "Coming Out of the Shadows of Vietnam," by Tom Carhart Washington Times, 09/20/82: 11A
(Course Documents?) LN?Sep 21: "The Names," by James Kilpatrick, Washington Post, 09/21/82: A19
Sep 21: ????"Model of Washington's Vietnam Statue Is Unveiled," New York Times, 09/21/82: A22
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Sep 21: "Hart's Vietnam Statue Unveiled; A Contrast of Bronze & Granite," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington
Post, 09/21/82: B1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Sep 22: "Vietnam: An Anti-Memorial," Washington Times, 09/27/82
Sep 23: Carter of VVMF to Watt (Course Documents?)
Sep 25: "A Monument to Our Discomfort," by Ellen Goodman, Washington Post, 09/25/82: A25 (CourseInterior Department memo on Watt options (Course Documents)Sep 29 -- reply (Course Documents?) have
Carter sep 29
Documents?) LN?Oct 02: "In Defense of the Vietnam Memorial," by Joan Beck, Chicago Tribune, 10/02/82: 1:8
Oct 04: Watt to Brown. (Course Documents)
Oct 06: "Veteran's Memorial Should Not Be Mournful," by Tom Carhart, Washington Times, 10/06/82
(Course Documents) LN?Oct 06: Sasaski to Scruggs. (Course Documents)
Oct 07: "Vietnam Memorial: Questions of Architecture; An Appraisal," by Paul Goldberger, New York Times,
10/07/82: C25 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 07: "Reconciliation In Granite; And a 5-Day Salute to Vietnam Veterans," by Caryle Murphy, Washington
Post, 10/07/82: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 09: "Vietnam Memorial Seen as 'First Step in a Healing Process,'" by Mary McGrory, Washington Post,
10/09/82(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 10: 60 Minutes "Lest We Forget" Oct 10 1982 Morley Safer Lin/Perot (Course Documents) LN?
Oct 12: "Poll Shows Most Viet-Vets Against Memorial Design," by Tom Carhart, Washington Times,
10/12/82: ? (Course Documents?) LN?Oct 13: "Art Disputes War: The Battle of the Vietnam Memorial," Tom Wolfe, Washington Post, 10/13/82: B3
(Course Documents?) LN?Oct 13: "Last Chance for the Memorial," Washington Times, 10/13/82 (Course Documents?) LN
Oct 13: ????"Commission Considers Memorial Changes Today," Washington Post, 10/13/82: B1(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Oct 13: Weese to Brown. (Course Documents)
Oct 13: Commission of Fine Arts approves the addition but at the entrance location. (Course Documents)
Oct 14: "Changes Set in Viet Memorial," by Irvin Molotsky, New York Times, 10/14/82, C17 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)Oct 14: "Vietnam Memorial Changes Clear Last Major Hurdle," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post,
10/14/82: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 14: Gilka to Atherton. (Course Documents)
Oct 15: House members to Watt. (Course Documents)
Oct 16: "The Vietnam Memorial Decision: 'Part of the Healing,'" by J. Carter Brown, Washington Post,
10/16/82: ? (Course Documents) LNOct 16: "Carhart: Veterans Betrayed," by Tom Carhart, Paterson Evening News, 10/16/82 (Course
Documents)Oct 19: Watts gives permission to dedicate
Oct 20: Lawrence to Brown. (Course Documents)
Oct 20: "The Writing on the Wall; Searching for Names at The Vietnam Memorial," by Christian Williams,
Washington Post, 10/20/82: B1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 25: "Vietnam Memorial: Peace at Last," U.S. News and World Report, 25 October,1982: 12
(Lexis-Nexis: Magazines)Oct 25: "Refighting the Vietnam War," by Meliinda Beck with Mary Lord, Newsweek 10/25/82: 30
(Lexis-Nexis: Magazines)Oct 27: Brown to Watt confirming. (Course Documents)
Nov 04: Scruggs: "Statement Regarding Legislative Initiative on Memorial Design" (Course Documents)
Nov 04: Webb remarks at press conference. (Course Documents)
Nov 04: Bailey remarks. (Course Documents)
Nightline in Nov: Lin, Scruggs, Perot
***Nov: "Art Commission Compromises on Compromise Design for Vietnam Memorial," Architectual Record, 170, 1982, 51 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Nov 05: "Viet Vets Push Additions to Memorial," Washington Times, 11/05/82: A3
Nov 07: "Reconciliation in Granite," by Caryle Murphy, Washington Post, 11/07/82: A1
Nov 09: X"The Memorial Mirror of Vietnam," by E. Bumiller, Washington Post, 11/09/82: F10
Nov 09: "Preparations For Salute to Vietnam Vets Nearly Done," by Kenneth Bredemeier, Washington Post,
11/09/82: B1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 09: "Vietnam Memorial Seen as 'First Step in a Healing Process,'" by Mary McGrory, Washington Post,
11/09/82: A3 LNNov 10-14: dedication times -- lots of articles???
Nov 10: "Salute Opening for Vietnam Veterans," by Lynn Rosellini, New York Times, 11/10/82: A16
Nov 11: "Tribute to Vietnam Dead: Words, a Wall," by Frances X. Clines, New York Times, 11/11/82: B15
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 12: "Remembering," by Judy Mann, Washington Post, 11/12/82: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Nov 12: "An Effort to Victimize Vietnam Vets One Last Time, by Milt Copulos, Washington Times, 11/12/82?
Nov 13: "Minority Report," by Christopher Hitchens, Nation 235.16 (13 November 1982): 486. (HOW TO SITE?)
Nov 13: "Vietnam Vets Come to Pay Tribute to Dead," by Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post, 11/13/82: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"The Vietnam Memorial," Washington Post, 11/13/82: A18 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)*****Nov 14 "Roll Call," by R. Cohen, Washington Post Nov. 14, 1982, B, 1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)"Area Vietnamese View Memorial With Interest," by Caryle Murphy, Washington Post, 11/13/82: B1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"A Mood Is Built; Stillness and Force in the Vietnam Memoria," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 11/13/82: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"Diverse Crowd Is Unanimous In Homage to Vietnam Veterans," by Kenneth Bredemeier, Washington Post, 11/14/82: A18 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"Veterans Honor The Fallen, Mark Reconciliation," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 11/14/82: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
"Reunion: Joined in Soul by Vietnam," by Neil Henry, Washington Post, 11/14/82: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Nov 22: X"Downcast Eyes," by Charles Krauthammer, New Republic 187.21 (22 November 1982): 42
"Remembering a War We Want to Forget," by William Broyles Jr., Newsweek, November 22, 1982: 83 (Lexis-Nexis: Magazines)******Nov 22: "A Homecoming at Last," By K. Anderson, Time, 11/22/82, 44-46. (ill'd 3.14.02)"Honoring Vietnam Veterans -- at Last," by Tom Morganthau with Mary Lord, Newsweek, 11/22/82: 80 (Lexis-Nexis: Magazines)
Village Voice article???? somewhere
Nov 24: Watt to Brown. (Course Documents)
Nov 26: "'Peace, not eulogy, best tribute to vets,'" by Arthur Jones, National Catholic Reporter 11/26/82 v19
p24(1) Mag.Coll.: 09F6517. (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?) haveNov 28: "We Can't Bury 'Nam Under the Memorial; America is Still Haunted by the Ghosts of the War That
Ripped Us Apart," by Robert Kaiser, Washington Post, 11/28/82: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 29: "Washington Diarist" New Republic, Nov 29th, 1982, 42
Nov 30: "After Looking at the Memorial," Washington Times, 11/30/82 p?
Dec 01: DCM Group analysis of the poll. (Course Documents)
Dec 06: "The Memorial: A Private Place For a Multitude Of Memories," by Sara Rimer, Washington Post,
12/06/82: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Dec 06: "War Photographer's View," by Linda Wheeler, Washington Post, 12/06/82: A13 (Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)*******Dec 06: "What's in a Name" New Republic, Dec 6, 1982, 6ff (ill'd 3.14.02)
Dec 14: Approval of additions were scheduled for this meeting of the Committee of Fine Arts but it was taken
off the agenda by Watts.Dec 14: Statement of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Regarding Compromise Agreement (Course
Documents)Dec 20: Press release by Congressman Don Bailey: "Bailey Bills for Vietnam Memorial Pass House in Final
Hours"Dec 20: Udall in Congressional Record. (Course Documents)Bailey in Congressional Record. (Course Documents)Dec 21 reply by Senator Mathias (Course Documents)
1983Scruggs to Udall Sept 23 (Course Documents)Jan **: *****Jan "Vietnam memorial War" Art News, 82, January 1983, 12 (ill'd 3.14.02) have
Jan 05: "Protracted War," Washington Post, 01/05/83 have
Jan 5-12: *****M. Scrogin, "Symbol of the Valley of Shadow," Christian Century, 7-8 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Jan 07: Silver to Doubek: possible testimony have
Jan 11: "The Vietnam Memorial (Cont'd), by Philip Geyelin, Washington Post, 01/11/83 have
Jan 11: Mathias and Warner to Watt have
Jan 14: Carter letters to Thayer and Watt have
Jan 15: "Reconciliation at the Vietnam Memorial," by R. Christian Berg, Washington Post, 01/15/83 Letter have
Jan 17: AIA joins with American Legion et al to protest have
Jan 17: "Incomplete Memorial," Washington Times, 01/17/83 (editorial cartoon) have
Jan 18: Scruggs to Davison have
Jan 29: "Watt Stalls Addition To Vietnam Memorial; Plan for Flag, Statue Awaits 'Political' Accord," by Phil
McCombs, Washington Post, 01/29/83: C1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Feb 01: Watts approval letters have
Feb 02: "Watt's Memorial Turnabout; Submits 3 Proposals to Complete Vietnam Tribute," by Phil McCombs,
Washington Post, 02/02/83: D1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Feb 03: *******H. Maurer, "The Invisible Veterans," New York Times Review of Books, 38-39 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Feb 07: press relaease from Bailey have
Feb 08: CFA meeting with the A-B-C proposals? Box 29
Feb ??: "Watt Opts for 'peace with honor' on the Mall," by Mike Sullivan, Washington Times, 02/??/83 have
Feb 09: **** "Statue and Flag Voted for Vietnam Memorial," New York Times, 02/09/83: A25
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Feb 09: "Commentary; A Solution With Pride, Harmony and Vision," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 02/09/83: F1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Feb 09: "The Memorial's Moment of Truce: Flag, Statue Approved for 'Front Door' of Lin's Vietnam Design," by
Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 02/09/83: F1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Feb 15: McDonald in Congressional Record and Scruggs' reply have
Mar **: "Memories of Vietnam," Progressive Architecture, March 1983 have
Mar **: ********March 1983: "Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Once More in the Breach," Architectural Record, 171, 61 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Mar 04: "Vietnam Memorial Approved; Final Changes Pass Planning Commission," by Benjamin
Forgey,Washington Post, 03/04/83: D1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Mar 17: VVMF Progress Report have
Apr **: *****April: "Making Peace," by John March, Harvard Business School Bulletin, pp. 57-75. (ill'd
3.16.02) haveApr **: "A Tale of Two Memorials," by Elizabeth Hess, Art in America 71.4 (April 1983): 120-27. (HOW TO
SITE?) X "Vietnam: Memorials of Misfortune," by Elizabeth Hess fromUnwinding The Vietnam War
ed., Reese WilliamsApr 19: CFA Meeting?
Apr 21: *******April 1983: J. Kelly, "Maya Ying Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Mall," Artforum, 21
April 1983, 76-77 (ill'd 3.14.02)May **: "Background to Betrayal: Viet Vets Want Their Memorial Back," by Milt Copulos, Soldier of Fortune,
May 1983, 18-27, 65. haveMay **: "What Happens When a Woman Designs a War Monument?" by Michael Sorkin, Vogue May
1983:120-22. (HOW TO SITE?) haveMay 02: "Reagan Makes His First Visit to Vietnam Memorial on Mall," New York Times, 05/02/83: A15
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)May 11: "Let Me Count the Ways" by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 05/11/83: B7(Lexis-Nexis:
Newspapers)May 25: X[NO TITLE WAS GIVEN], by Chuck Conconi, Washington Post, 05/25/83: B3
May 28: "A Lure for Tourists," New York Times, 05/28/83 have
May 30: "Moving 'Memorial'; Poignant Moments Captured on PBS," by Tom Shales, Washington Post, 05/30/83: D1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
May 31: "Thousands Pay Tribute at Vietnam Memorial," by M. Marriott, Washington Post, 05/31/83: B6
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Jun 20: ******June 20: "Notes and Comments," New Yorker, June 20, 1983, 25-26 (ill'd 3.14.02)
Jun 22: "Shaped by the War in Vietnam," by John Wheeler, New York Times, 06/22/83: A27 have
Jun 24: "'A Mass Obscenity,'" Washington Post, June 24, 1983, B1 have
Jul 15: *******July 15 D. Hoekema, "A Wall for Remembering" Commonweal, 397-98. (ill'd 3.14.02)
Aug 30: *******"Vietnam Memorial; Touching, Tears, Roses, Rain," by P. Gailey, New York Times, August
30, 1983, B, 6 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Sep **: "Viet Guilt," by Christopher Buckley, Esquire 100.3 (Sept 1983): 68-72 have
Nov **: "Letter to the Editor," by Fredrick Hart, Art in America 71.10 (November 1983): 5
Nov **: "The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," by Robert W. Doubek, Retired Officer 39.11
(November 1983): 17-24Nov ??: stuff on the tv/audit
Nov 07: "Ch. 9 Reporter Charged with Illegal Taping," by John Carmody, Washington Post, 11/07/83 have
Nov 08: "Battle Of the Wall; TV Reports Spark Dispute Over Vietnam Memorial," by Phil McCombs,
Washington Post, 11/08/83: D1 "Battle Of the Wall; TV Reports Spark Dispute Over Vietnam
Memorial," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 11/08/83: D1 haveNov 09: "Vets [Veterans?] and Memorial Flap," Washington Post, 11/09/83: D9
Nov 11: "Memorial Fund Invites Audit By Channel 9," by Lois Romano, Washington Post, 11/11/83: C1
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 14: "The Memorial -- a Year Later," by Rick Horowitz [Baltimore] Sun, 11/14/83: C1 have
Nov 16: "Life after Annapolis: An American Odyssey," by Tom Carhart, Wall Street Journal, 11/16/83 have
Nov 21: *****Nov 21: "A Memorial That Healed Our Wounds" by J. Lang, U.S. News and World Report, 69
(ill'd 3.14.02)Nov 21: "First Anniversary; A Memorial Wall That Healed Our Wounds," by John S. Lang, U.S. News &
World Report, 11/23/01: 68. (LN)Dec 08: "Sherwood Resigns at WDVM," Washington Times, 12/08/83
Dec 09: Spivak interview have
Dec 17: "GAO To Audit Vets; Fund Channel 9 Bows Out On Memorial Probe," by Jacqueline Trescott,"
Washington Post, 12/17/83: B1 "GAO To Audit Vets; Fund Channel 9 Bows Out On Memorial
Probe," by Jacqueline Trescott," Washington Post, 12/17/83: B1 (Lexis-Nexis)Dec 19: X[No TITLE GIVEN] Washington Post, 12/19/83: C10,
Jan 17: various things regarding webb/scruggs have
*****Fall: "Vietnam Nurse Memorial Project Raising Funds for Bronze Statue," by Donna Marie Boulay and Diane Carson Evans, Minerva2: 20-22 (ill'd 3.16.02)
Mar 28: Scruggs "Setting the Record Straight" on the audit have
May 24: "Vietnam Memorial Fund May Sue WDVM," by Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post, 05/24/84: D2
(Lexis-Nexis:Newspapers)X"Vietnam Memorial Gets a Spanish Face," Jane Addams Allen, Washington Times, 05/25/84: ??
Jun 21: WDVM apology statement have
*****July 7: "Soothing the Wounds," by Karen Horder, Leader Telegram (Wis.). (ill'd 3.16.02) have
Jul 17: "Reporter'sProject Ruins His Career," by Jonathan Friendly, New York Times, 07/17/84: A10
"Reporter'sProject Ruins His Career," by Jonathan Friendly, New York Times, 07/17/84: A10
(Lexis-Nexis)Aug 03: "How He Got That Story and Was Ruined," by Alex Miller, Public Relations Business, 08/13/84
Oct **: "Of arms, men & monuments," by Tod Lindberg. Commentary Oct 1984 v78 p51(6) Mag.Coll.:
25B3975. (ILL) (HOW TO SITE?)Oct 05: "Statue for Vietnam Veterans Memorial Nears Completion," New York Times, 10/05/84: B3
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 30: "The Vietnam War Comes Home Again, In Bronze," by Barbara Gamarekian, New York Times,
10/30/84: A20 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Oct 30: "Statue Erected to Honor Veterans at Vietnam Memorial," by Martin Weil, Washington Post, 10/30/84:
B3(Lexis-Nexis:Newspapers)Nov **: "Why Men Love War," William Broyles, Esquire 102.5 (November 1984): 61-62. have
Nov 06: "A Wall Honoring Not Only Vietnam Veterans," by James Reston Jr., New York Times, 11/06/84:
A25 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 08: "A Cycle of War and Remembrance; Viet Memorial 2 Years Old," by Arthur S. Brisbane, Washington
Post, 11/08/84: A1 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 08: "Channel 9 Apologizes To Fund; Sets 'Record Straight' On Vietnam Memorial," by John Carmody,
Washington Post, 11/08/84 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 09: "Vietnam War Veterans Assemble for Ceremony," by Ben A. Franklin, New York Times, 11/09/84:
A25 (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 09: "The Memorial, Mirror of Vietnam; The Lives the Monument Touched, the Passions It Aroused and the
Statue That May Speed the Healing," by Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington Post, 11/09/84: F1
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 10: "Sculpture Unveiled at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial," New York Times, 11/10/84: 1:1
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)Nov 10: "The Statue & the Wall; At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Resonance and Reconciliation," by
Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, 11/10/84: D1 (Lexis-Nexis:Newspapers)Nov 11: "The War-Scarred Assemble at Vietnam Memorial," By Ben A. Franklin, New York Times, 11/11/84:
1:28 (Lexis-Nexis:Newspapers)Nov 12: "President Accepts Vietnam Memorial" by Ben A. Franklin, New York Times, 11/12/84: A1
(Lexis-Nexis:Newspapers)Nov 12: "President Leads Tribute To Vietnam Veterans; Reconciliation Theme Voiced in Mall Ceremony," by
Arthur S. Brisbane, Washington Post, 11/12/84: A1 (Lexis-Nexis:Newspapers)Nov 12: "After the War, The Fight Continues," by Charles E. Wheeler, Washington Times, 11/12/84: B
Nov 12: 'The Memorial, the Mirror': A Reply," by Tom Carhart, Washington Post, 11/12/84: A18 have
Nov 26: "Healing Viet Nam's Wounds," Alessandra Stanley and Bruce Van Voorst, Time 26 November 1984:
44. (Infotrac)Dec **: "The National Vietnam War Memorial," Shirley Neilson Blum, Arts Magazine, December 1984:
124-28.Dec **" *****Dec: "Memorial Project," The Vietnam Veteran, 9. (ill'd 3.16.02)
Dec 11: More on scruggs/webb have
Dec 12: Denouement. (reflections at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) Michael Bledsoe. Christian Century Dec
12, 1984 v101 p1166(2) Mag.Coll.: 25L3462 Denouement. (reflections at the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial) Michael Bledsoe. Christian Century Dec 12, 1984 v101 p1166(2) Mag.Coll.: 25L3462
(Infotrac--only citation)
*****no month/date given: The Commission of Fine Arts: A Brief History, 1910-1976, with additions, 1977-1984 by Susan A. Kohler, Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985. We have in Lehigh's Library.
*****no month/date given: "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Public Art and Politics," by Catherine M. Howett, Landscape 28, no. 2, pp.1-9 (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Jan: "Vietnam Nurse," by Cliff Borden, Wisconsin Veterans of Foreign Wars News, 54. (ill'd 3.16.02)
X"The War and the Arts," by S.G. Freeman, New York Times Magazine March 1985: 50-51, 53-57. (HOW TO SITE?)
April 1985 Time and Newsweek, see Haines
"To Heal a Nation," by Joel Swerdlow National Geographic 167 (May 1985): 555-73.
"The Wall," Christopher Buckley, Esquire 104 (Sept 1985): 61-73. (Infotrac-extended citations)
Scruggs memo to file about Buckley have
*******Nov: "Wounded Healers:A Summary of the Vietnam Nurse Veteran Project," by Elizabeth A. Paul, Military Medicine, 571-576. (ill'd 3.16.02)
"Sculptor Frederick Hart: At the Vietnam Memorial, Three Figures Ex Nihilo," by William F. Ryan, Virginia Country November/December 1985: 21-27. (HOW TO SITE?)
"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Public Art and Politics," by Catherine M. Howett, Landscape 28.2 (1985): 1-9. have
*****No Month/Day Given: "Nurse." by Diane Carson Evans, Reflections of Vietnam and Beyond 1:21 (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Jan 8: "Metal of Honor: Memorial for Women in Vietnam," by Kate Rix, City on a Hill, (Santa Cruz, California), 23.
****** April 13: "Viet Nurse fights for Memorial," by Kate McCarthy McEnroe, St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch (ill'd 3.16.02)
******April 20: "Ex-Viet Nurse Wants Statue for Women Vets" by Gary Radolf, Lacrosse (Wis.) Tribune. (ill'd 3.16.02)
******April 23: Ann Daly Goodwin, "Build War Memorial for Tears Held Back" St Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch
*****May 3: "Statue will Honor Women Who served in Vietnam," Winston-Salem Journal. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 13: "Memorial For Women Who Served in Vietnam Is Long Overdue," by Dennis Rogers, (Raleigh, N.C.) News and Observer. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 24: "Vietnam War Era Nurses Announce Bronze Statue," (Williamsport, Penn.) Sun-Gazette (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 24: "Women Kick Off Campaign to Add Statue to Memorial," Associated Press story, Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader. (ill'd 3.16.02)
"No Medals for Memorial," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 06/12/86
X"At last, loyalty makes the headlines," by William Broyles Jr. U.S. News & World Report June 30, 1986 v100 p13(1) Mag.Coll.: 34M0016. (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)
*****July 15: "Statue of Limitation," by Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*******August: "Honor Women Who Served," Gary Heibert, VFW Magazine, 24-26 (ill'd 3.16.02) have
******Sept 1986: Doreen Spelts, "Nurses who served--And Did Not Return" American Journal of Nursing, 1037-38 (ill'd 3.14.02)
******Sept 17: "Women Vets Gather in Washington, D.C.," by Mary Ann Attebury, Major, USAFR, VWMP.
---"Backgrounder: Vietnam Women's Memorial Project," undated press release, VWMP."A ritual for saying goodbye," by William Broyles Jr. U.S. News & World Report Nov 10, 1986 v101 p19(1) Mag.Coll. 36D1516. (INFO) (LN) (HOW TO SITE?)
******November: "Eight Names on the Wall Belong to Women" by Christoper Podgus, Veteran, 27. (ill'd 3.14.02) have
*****Nov 6: Public Law 99-610, "Women in Military Service For America Memorial."
*****Nov 9: "Vietnam Memorials, Vast and Small, Rising Around the Nation," New York Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "96 More Names Set for War Monument" Associated Press dispatch, p.m. cycle (HOW TO SEARCH FOR THIS??)
*****Nov 11: "Statue Recognizes Women Veterans," (Doylestown, Penn.) Daily Intelligencer. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 29: "They Also Served: Women in "Nam," by Tom Frame (?), Philadelphia Inquirer (ill'd 3.16.02)
1987
X"The Wall That Heals," by William Broyles Jr. Reader's Digest May 1987 v130 p70(7) (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)
******Sept 11: "Hodel Hears Plan to Add Women to Memorial," AP Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune. (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Sept 14: "Rembering Vietnam," New York Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Oct 13: "Women Gain a Key Ally For Vietnam Statue," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. (Ill'd 3.16.02)
Oct 20: Lin to Commission have
******Oct 22: The Commission of Fine Arts Testimony, Commissions Washington Office.
******Oct 22: 'Women and the Wall," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post. E21 (Lexis Nexis: Newspapers)
******Oct 23: "Commission Vetoes Vietnam Women's Statue," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*******Oct 23: Open Letter by D-M Boulay was used as a VMMP press release and other veterans publications.
Oct 28: Brown letter to Hodel
*****Feb11: "Female Vietnam Veterans Have Their Share of Problems, Also," Tuscaloosa News (ill'd 3.16.02)
****Feb 28: "Healers Belong With The Heroes in Honoring War Veterans," by Ellen Diderich Zimmer, Arkansas Gazette (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov: "The Public Trust," by Rob Silverman, Artpaper, (Minneapolis/St. Paul), 22 (ill'd 3.16.02)
*******Nov 8: Nancy Hobbs, "Women Veterans Seek Memorial," Salt Lake Tribune. (ill'd 3.14.02)
*****Nov 11: "Honoring Women Who Served," Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Nov 11: "Women Vietnam Vets Seek Recognition," Stars and Stripes. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "A Time to Recognize Women Are Veterans Too," New York Times by Barbara L. Shay (North Adams, Mass.) (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Nov 11: "$85,000" in Royalties for Memorial Sculptor," Washington Post D1 (ill'd 3.16.02) have
*****Nov 11: "Vietnam Women Veteran's Statue Now Going the Legislative Route," Washington Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 20: Congressional Debate over the Durenberger Bill, Congressional Record, S16701.
*****Dec 2: "Honoring the Women," Rossmor (Cal.) News (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Spring: "The Staue Near the Wall: The Vietnam veterans Memorial and the Art of Remembering," by Karal Ann Marling and Rob Silberman, Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1: 14-15. (ill'd 3.16.02)
1988
******No month or day given: Vietnam War Memorials: An illustrated Reference to Veterans Tributes Throughout the United States by Jerry L. Starit and Sandra Strait, (Jefferson, N.C.:MacFarland and Co.) esp. pps 125-127. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Jan 26: "Picking a Bone WIth a Bureaucrat: Official Links Canine Corps with Valor of Servicewomen," by Elaine Viets, St. Loius Post-Dispatch. (ill'd 3.16.02) have
*****Feb 10: "Assembly Okays Vietnam Memorial to Women Who Served," The (Sacramento, Cal.) Progress. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Feb 13: "The Wall, Complete," by Benjamin Forgery, Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Feb 23: "Vietnam Women's Memorial," Hearings before the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests, U.S. Senate, 100th Congress.
*****Feb 24: "Plan to Honor Women Vietnam Vets Criticized," Minneapolis Star Tribune (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Feb 27: "Leave the Vietnam Memorial Alone," Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Woman of the Wall. (Vietnam Women's Memorial Project urges placement of nurse statue at memorial) U.S. News & World Report March 7, 1988 v104 n9 p13(1) Mag.Coll.: 43H0280. Bus.Coll.: 36X0016. (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)
******March 17: "In Bits and Pieces, This is Their Vietnam," New York Times. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Washington's controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial: the wringing at the wall. Elizabeth McGowan.
Travel-Holiday April 1988 v169 n4 p11(5) Mag.Coll.: 44A1116. (ILL) (Infotrac-extended citations)****** April15: "Vietnam Women Suffer with No Healing in Sight," by Moira Kirylo, Marquette (Minn.) Tribune. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 10: "Memorial Board Replaces Chairman," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 11: "Vietnam Women Vets Replace Leader of War Memorial Effort," Minneapolis Star Tribune. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 12: "Senate Panel OKs Statue of Nurse at Vietnam Memorial," Minneapolis Star Tribune. (illd' 3.16.02)
******May 19: "Don't Statue It Up," Savannah Morning News (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 28: "Nurse Leads Memorial Drive," by Michele Leslie, Cleveland Plain Dealer (ill'd 3.16.02) have
*****May 29: Noel Holston, "'To Heal A Nation' Tells Wounds Off Battlefield" Minneapolis Star Tribune
(ill'd 3.14.02)His dream was To Heal a Nation with the Vietnam Memorial, but Jan Scruggs's healing isn't over yet. Mary
Vespa. People Weekly May 30, 1988 v29 n21 p85(2) Mag.Coll.: 45A0730. (Infotrac)The war on the wall. (controversy over memorial to Vietnam-era nurses) (Beltway Bandits) (column) David Corn,
Jefferson Morley. Nation June 4, 1988 v246 n22 p780(1) Mag.Coll.: 45C0057 (Infotrac)May: To heal a Nation shown
June: Senator Durenberger sponsors a bill for a women's memorial that the senate passes 96-1.
*****June 19: "Why Spoil the Vietnam Memorial?" Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****June 21: The record of the House Hearing on this date before the Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials of the Committee on House Administration has not been printed but the testimony submitted is available at the subcommittee office.
*****June 22: "Action on the Women's Memorial," Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02) (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****July 28: "Vietnam's Other Vets," by Arold Evans, Newsday. (ill'd 3.15.02)
*****Nov 15: President Regan signs bill for support of women's statue. Senate Bill S2042 (?)
1989
Marling, Karal Ann, and John Wetenhall. "The Sexual Politics of Memory: The Vietnam Women's Memorial Project and 'The Wall.'" Prospects 14 (1989): 341-72.
Elizabeth Kastor, "Maya Lin's Unwavering Vision," Washington Post, 02/13/89: B1
1990
XWar stories: Lincoln and Vietnam Memorials: best monuments in Washington, D.C. (The Best of America: the Land) U.S. News & World Report July 9, 1990 v109 n2 p57(1) Mag.Coll.: 55L0668. Bus.Coll.: 51Z1696. (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)
The symmetry of Maya Ying Lin. (artist and sculptor) Jill Kirschenbaum. Ms. Magazine Sept-Oct 1990 v1 n2 p20(3) (ILL) (HOW TO SITE?)
1991
"Monument maker," by Peter Tauber, New York Times Magazine, 02/24/91 v140 p48 113 col in (ILL) (HOW TO SITE?)
1993
Nov 11: dedication of Vietnam Women's Memorial
2000
"Making the memorial," by Maya Lin. New York Review of Books Nov 2, 2000 v47 i17 p33(3) (Infotrac--extended citations)
Books by Carhart and Wheeler
Picture Books:
Michael Katakis, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Thomas Morrisey, Between the Lines
Larry Powell, Hunger of the Heart
Duncan Spencer, Facing the Wall
Sal Lopes, The Wall
Edward Clinto Ezell, Reflections on the WallZinn, 20thc
Lies my Teacher bookXAshabranner, Brent. Always to Remember: The Story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988.
Atkinson, Rick. The Long Gray Line. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 449-480.
Barber, Bernard. "Place, Symbol, and Utilitarian Function in War Memorials." Social Forces 28 (1949): 64-68.
Bee, John D. "Eros and Thanatos: An Analysis of the Vietnam Memorial." Vietnam Images: War and Representation. Ed. Jeffrey Walsh and James Aulich. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. 196-204.
Berdahl, Daphne. "Voices at the Wall: Discourses of Self, History and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial." History and Memory 6 (1994): 88-124.
Blair, Carole, Martha S. Jeppeson, and Enrico Pucci, Jr. "Public Memorializing in Postmodernity: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Prototype." Quarterly Journal of Speech 77 (1991): 263-88. ONLINE (INFO?)
Bodnar, John. Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton UP, 19xx.
Blum
Carlson, A. Cheree, and John E. Hocking. "Strategies of Redemption at the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial." Western Journal of Speech Communication 52 (Summer 1988): 203-15.
Clark, Michael. "Remembering Vietnam." Cultural Critique 3 (1986): 46-78.
Ehrenhaus, Peter. "Commemorating the Unwon War: On Not Remembering Vietnam." Journal of Communciation 39.1 (1989): 96-107.
Silence and symbolic expression. Peter Ehrenhaus.
Communication Monographs March 1988 v55 n1 p41(17) (ILL)Ehrenhaus, Peter. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: An Invitation to Argument." Journal of the American Forensic Association 25 (Fall 1988): 54-64.
The wall. (Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C.) (Vietnam War
Representations) Peter Ehrenhaus.
Critical Studies in Mass Communication March 1989 v6 n1 p94(5) (ILL)So old soldiers don't fade away: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
(Washington, D.C.) Caron Schwartz Ellis.
Journal of American Culture Summer 1992 v15 n2 p25(6) (ILL)Fish (Hart!)
Foss, Sandra K. "Ambiguity as Persuasion: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Communication Quarterly 34.3 (1986): 326-40.
Fox, Terrance M. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Ideological Implications." Vietnam Images: War and Representation. Ed. Jeffrey Walsh and James Aulich. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. 211-20.
Gans, Adrienne. "The War and Peace of the Vietnam Memorials." American Imago 44.4 (1988): 315-29.
Griswold, Charles L. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Washington Mall: Philosophical Thoughts on Political Iconography." Critical Inquiry 12 (Summer 1986): 688-719.
Haines, Harry W. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Authority and Gender in Cultural Representation." Vietnam Images: War and Representation. Ed. Jeffrey Walsh and James Aulich. New York: St. Martin's, 1989. 205-10.
Haines, Harry W. "'What Kind of War?': An Analysis of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Critical Studies in Mass Communication 3.1 (1986): 1-20.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. "The Names of the Dead." Critical Inquiry 24 (1997): 176-90.
Hass, Kristin Ann. Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.
Hass, Making a Memory
? Hess, Elizabeth. "A Tale of Two Memorials." Art in America 71.4 (April 1983): 120-27. (SEE PRIMARY SOURCES FOR 1983)
? Hess, Elizabeth. "Vietnam: Memorials of Misfortune." Unwinding the Vietnam War: From War into Peace. Ed. Reese Williams. Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1987. 262-80. (SEE PRIMARY SOURCES FOR 1983)
? Howett, Catherine M. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Public Art and Politics." Landscape 28.2 (1985): 1-9. (ILL) Primary?
Hubbard, William. "A Meaning for Monuments." Public Interest 74 (1984): 17-30.
Isaacs, Arnold R. Vietnam Shadows: The War, Its Ghosts, and Its Legacy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.
Public art controversy: the Serra and Lin cases. (sculptors Richard
Serra and Maya Lin)(Symposium: Public Art)
Michael Kelly.
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Wntr 1996 v54 n1
p15(8) (INFO)Vietnam Veterans' Memorial: universal symbolism. Franklin B. Krohn.
ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Summer 1993 v50 n2 p165(3) (INFO)? Lin, Maya. Boundaries. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
? Making the memorial. (experiences of Maya Lin in designing the Vietnam
Veterans' Memorial, Washington
D.C.)(Cover Story) Maya Lin.
The New York Review of Books Nov 2, 2000 v47 i17 p33(3) (INFO)The rise of misguided memorials. (war memorials, statues, etc.)
Michael Lind.
The New Leader Sept 7, 1998 v81 n10 p10(3) Mag.Coll.: 95M3317. (INFO)X Lopes, Sal, ed. The Wall: Images and Offerings from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: Collins, 1987.
Marling, Karal Ann, and Robert Silberman. "The Statue Near the Wall: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Art of Remembering." Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1.1 (1987): 5-29.
X Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
McCloud
Mc Gowan
Morris, Richard. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Myth of Superiority." Cultural Legacies of Vietnam: Uses of the Past in the Present. Ed. Richard Morris and Peter Ehrenhaus. Norwood: Ablex, 1990. 199-222.
Palmer, Laura. Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: Vintage, 1987.
Piehler, G. Kurt. Remembering War the American Way. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
Meditations in black: the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Grant F. Scott.
Journal of American Culture Fall 1990 v13 n3 p37(4) (ILL)X Scruggs, Jan C., and Joel L. Swerdlow. To Heal a Nation: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial. New York: Harper, 1985.
Sturken, Marita. "The Wall, the Screen, and the Image: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Representations 35 (1991): 118-42.
Memorials of the America War in Vietnam. James Tatum.
Critical Inquiry Summer 1996 v22 n4 p634(45) (ILL)Timberg, Robert. The Nightingale's Song. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995. 306-17.
Wagner-Pacifici, Robin, and Barry Schwartz. "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Commemorating a Difficult Past."
American Journal of Sociology 97.2 (1991): 376-420. ONLINE
1986 - 1
*****No Month/Day Given: "Nurse." by Diane Carson Evans, Reflections of Vietnam and Beyond 1:21 (ill'd
3.16.02)******Jan 8: "Metal of Honor: Memorial for Women in Vietnam," by Kate Rix, City on a Hill, (Santa Cruz,
California), 23.****** April 13: "Viet Nurse fights for Memorial," by Kate McCarthy McEnroe, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Dispatch (ill'd 3.16.02)******April 20: "Ex-Viet Nurse Wants Statue for Women Vets" by Gary Radolf, Lacrosse (Wis.) Tribune. (ill'd
3.16.02)******April 23: Ann Daly Goodwin, "Build War Memorial for Tears Held Back" St Paul Pioneer Press
Dispatch*****May 3: "Statue will Honor Women Who served in Vietnam," Winston-Salem Journal. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 13: "Memorial For Women Who Served in Vietnam Is Long Overdue," by Dennis Rogers, (Raleigh,
N.C.) News and Observer. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****May 24: "Vietnam War Era Nurses Announce Bronze Statue," (Williamsport, Penn.) Sun-Gazette (ill'd
3.16.02)*****May 24: "Women Kick Off Campaign to Add Statue to Memorial," Associated Press story, Manchester
(N.H.) Union Leader. (ill'd 3.16.02)"No Medals for Memorial," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 06/12/86
X"At last, loyalty makes the headlines," by William Broyles Jr. U.S. News & World Report June 30, 1986 v100
p13(1) Mag.Coll.: 34M0016. (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)*****July 15: "Statue of Limitation," by Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*******August: "Honor Women Who Served," Gary Heibert, VFW Magazine, 24-26 (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Sept 1986: Doreen Spelts, "Nurses who served--And Did Not Return" American Journal of Nursing,
1037-38 (ill'd 3.14.02)******Sept 17: "Women Vets Gather in Washington, D.C.," by Mary Ann Attebury, Major, USAFR, VWMP.
---"Backgrounder: Vietnam Women's Memorial Project," undated press release, VWMP."A ritual for saying goodbye," by William Broyles Jr. U.S. News & World Report Nov 10, 1986 v101 p19(1)
Mag.Coll. 36D1516. (INFO) (LN) (HOW TO SITE?)******November: "Eight Names on the Wall Belong to Women" by Christoper Podgus, Veteran, 27. (ill'd
3.14.02)*****Nov 6: Public Law 99-610, "Women in Military Service For America Memorial."
*****Nov 9: "Vietnam Memorials, Vast and Small, Rising Around the Nation," New York Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "96 More Names Set for War Monument" Associated Press dispatch, p.m. cycle (HOW TO
SEARCH FOR THIS??)*****Nov 11: "Statue Recognizes Women Veterans," (Doylestown, Penn.) Daily Intelligencer. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 29: "They Also Served: Women in "Nam," by Tom Frame (?), Philadelphia Inquirer (ill'd 3.16.02)
1987
X"The Wall That Heals," by William Broyles Jr. Reader's Digest May 1987 v130 p70(7) (INFO) (HOW TO
SITE?)******Sept 11: "Hodel Hears Plan to Add Women to Memorial," AP Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune. (ill'd
3.16.02)******Sept 14: "Rembering Vietnam," New York Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Oct 13: "Women Gain a Key Ally For Vietnam Statue," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. (Ill'd 3.16.02)
******Oct 22: The Commission of Fine Arts Testimony, Commissions Washington Office.
******Oct 22: 'Women and the Wall," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post. (Lexis Nexis: Newspapers)
******Oct 23: "Commission Vetoes Vietnam Women's Statue," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post.
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)*******Oct 23: Open Letter by D-M Boulay was used as a VMMP press release and other veterans
publications.*****Feb11: "Female Vietnam Veterans Have Their Share of Problems, Also," Tuscaloosa News (ill'd 3.16.02)
****Feb 28: "Healers Belong With The Heroes in Honoring War Veterans," by Ellen Diderich Zimmer, Arkansas
Gazette (ill'd 3.16.02)*****Nov: "The Public Trust," by Rob Silverman, Artpaper, (Minneapolis/St. Paul), 22 (ill'd 3.16.02)
*******Nov 8: Nancy Hobbs, "Women Veterans Seek Memorial," Salt Lake Tribune. (ill'd 3.14.02)
*****Nov 11: "Honoring Women Who Served," Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Nov 11: "Women Vietnam Vets Seek Recognition," Stars and Stripes. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "A Time to Recognize Women Are Veterans Too," New York Times by Barbara L. Shay (North
Adams, Mass.) (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)*****Nov 11: "$85,000" in Royalties for Memorial Sculptor," Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "Vietnam Women Veteran's Statue Now Going the Legislative Route," Washington Times. (ill'd
3.16.02)*****Nov 20: Congressional Debate over the Durenberger Bill, Congressional Record, S16701.
*****Dec 2: "Honoring the Women," Rossmor (Cal.) News (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Spring: "The Staue Near the Wall: The Vietnam veterans Memorial and the Art of Remembering," by Karal
Ann Marling and Rob Silberman, Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1: 14-15. (ill'd 3.16.02)1988
******No month or day given: Vietnam War Memorials: An illustrated Reference to Veterans Tributes
Throughout the United States by Jerry L. Starit and Sandra Strait, (Jefferson, N.C.:MacFarland and Co.) esp.
pps 125-127. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****Jan 26: "Picking a Bone WIth a Bureaucrat: Official Links Canine Corps with Valor of Servicewomen," by
Elaine Viets, St. Loius Post-Dispatch. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****Feb 10: "Assembly Okays Vietnam Memorial to Women Who Served," The (Sacramento, Cal.) Progress.
(ill'd 3.16.02)*****Feb 13: "The Wall, Complete," by Benjamin Forgery, Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Feb 23: "Vietnam Women's Memorial," Hearings before the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee
on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests, U.S. Senate, 100th Congress.*****Feb 24: "Plan to Honor Women Vietnam Vets Criticized," Minneapolis Star Tribune (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Feb 27: "Leave the Vietnam Memorial Alone," Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Woman of the Wall. (Vietnam Women's Memorial Project urges placement of nurse statue at memorial) U.S.
News & World Report March 7, 1988 v104 n9 p13(1) Mag.Coll.: 43H0280. Bus.Coll.: 36X0016. (INFO)
(HOW TO SITE?)******March 17: "In Bits and Pieces, This is Their Vietnam," New York Times. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Washington's controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial: the wringing at the wall. Elizabeth McGowan.
Travel-Holiday April 1988 v169 n4 p11(5) Mag.Coll.: 44A1116. (ILL) (Infotrac-extended citations)****** April15: "Vietnam Women Suffer with No Healing in Sight," by Moira Kirylo, Marquette (Minn.)
Tribune. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****May 10: "Memorial Board Replaces Chairman," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 11: "Vietnam Women Vets Replace Leader of War Memorial Effort," Minneapolis Star Tribune. (ill'd
3.16.02)*****May 12: "Senate Panel OKs Statue of Nurse at Vietnam Memorial," Minneapolis Star Tribune. (illd'
3.16.02)******May 19: "Don't Statue It Up," Savannah Morning News (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 28: "Nurse Leads Memorial Drive," by Michele Leslie, Cleveland Plain Dealer (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 29: Noel Holston, "'To Heal A Nation' Tells Wounds Off Battlefield" Minneapolis Star Tribune
(ill'd 3.14.02)His dream was To Heal a Nation with the Vietnam Memorial, but Jan Scruggs's healing isn't over yet. Mary
Vespa. People Weekly May 30, 1988 v29 n21 p85(2) Mag.Coll.: 45A0730. (Infotrac)The war on the wall. (controversy over memorial to Vietnam-era nurses) (Beltway Bandits) (column) David
Corn,
Jefferson Morley. Nation June 4, 1988 v246 n22 p780(1) Mag.Coll.: 45C0057 (Infotrac)May: To heal a Nation shown
June: Senator Durenberger sponsors a bill for a women's memorial that the senate passes 96-1.
*****June 19: "Why Spoil the Vietnam Memorial?" Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****June 21: The record of the House Hearing on this date before the Subcommittee on Libraries and
Memorials of the Committee on House Administration has not been printed but the testimony submitted is
available at the subcommittee office.*****June 22: "Action on the Women's Memorial," Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02) (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****July 28: "Vietnam's Other Vets," by Arold Evans, Newsday. (ill'd 3.15.02)
*****Nov 15: President Regan signs bill for support of women's statue. Senate Bill S2042 (?)
1989
Marling, Karal Ann, and John Wetenhall. "The Sexual Politics of Memory: The Vietnam Women's Memorial
Project and 'The Wall.'" Prospects 14 (1989): 341-72.Elizabeth Kastor, "Maya Lin's Unwavering Vision," Washington Post, 02/13/89: B1
1990
XWar stories: Lincoln and Vietnam Memorials: best monuments in Washington, D.C. (The Best of America: the
Land) U.S. News & World Report July 9, 1990 v109 n2 p57(1) Mag.Coll.: 55L0668. Bus.Coll.: 51Z1696.
(INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)The symmetry of Maya Ying Lin. (artist and sculptor) Jill Kirschenbaum. Ms. Magazine Sept-Oct 1990 v1 n2
p20(3) (ILL) (HOW TO SITE?)
1991
"Monument maker," by Peter Tauber, New York Times Magazine, 02/24/91 v140 p48 113 col in (ILL) (HOW
TO SITE?)
1993
Nov 11: dedication of Vietnam Women's Memorial
1986 - 2
***** "Ambiguity as Persuassion: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial." by Foss, S., Communication Quarterly 34
(1986) (ill'd 4.17.02)*****No Month/Day Given: "Nurse." by Diane Carson Evans, Reflections of Vietnam and Beyond 1:21 (ill'd
3.16.02)******Jan 8: "Metal of Honor: Memorial for Women in Vietnam," by Kate Rix, City on a Hill, (Santa Cruz,
California), 23.****** April 13: "Viet Nurse fights for Memorial," by Kate McCarthy McEnroe, St. Paul Pioneer Press
Dispatch (ill'd 3.16.02)******April 20: "Ex-Viet Nurse Wants Statue for Women Vets" by Gary Radolf, Lacrosse (Wis.) Tribune. (ill'd
3.16.02)******April 23: Ann Daly Goodwin, "Build War Memorial for Tears Held Back" St Paul Pioneer Press
Dispatch*****May 3: "Statue will Honor Women Who served in Vietnam," Winston-Salem Journal. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 13: "Memorial For Women Who Served in Vietnam Is Long Overdue," by Dennis Rogers, (Raleigh,
N.C.) News and Observer. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****May 24: "Vietnam War Era Nurses Announce Bronze Statue," (Williamsport, Penn.) Sun-Gazette (ill'd
3.16.02)*****May 24: "Women Kick Off Campaign to Add Statue to Memorial," Associated Press story, Manchester
(N.H.) Union Leader. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****Summer (1986) "The
"No Medals for Memorial," by Phil McCombs, Washington Post, 06/12/86
X"At last, loyalty makes the headlines," by William Broyles Jr. U.S. News & World Report June 30, 1986 v100
p13(1) Mag.Coll.: 34M0016. (INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)*****July 15: "Statue of Limitation," by Elizabeth Hess, Village Voice. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*******August: "Honor Women Who Served," Gary Heibert, VFW Magazine, 24-26 (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Sept 1986: Doreen Spelts, "Nurses who served--And Did Not Return" American Journal of Nursing,
1037-38 (ill'd 3.14.02)******Sept 17: "Women Vets Gather in Washington, D.C.," by Mary Ann Attebury, Major, USAFR, VWMP.
---"Backgrounder: Vietnam Women's Memorial Project," undated press release, VWMP."A ritual for saying goodbye," by William Broyles Jr. U.S. News & World Report Nov 10, 1986 v101 p19(1)
Mag.Coll. 36D1516. (INFO) (LN) (HOW TO SITE?)******November: "Eight Names on the Wall Belong to Women" by Christoper Podgus, Veteran, 27. (ill'd
3.14.02)*****Nov 6: Public Law 99-610, "Women in Military Service For America Memorial."
*****Nov 9: "Vietnam Memorials, Vast and Small, Rising Around the Nation," New York Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "96 More Names Set for War Monument" Associated Press dispatch, p.m. cycle (HOW TO
SEARCH FOR THIS??)*****Nov 11: "Statue Recognizes Women Veterans," (Doylestown, Penn.) Daily Intelligencer. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 29: "They Also Served: Women in "Nam," by Tom Frame (?), Philadelphia Inquirer (ill'd 3.16.02)
1987
X"The Wall That Heals," by William Broyles Jr. Reader's Digest May 1987 v130 p70(7) (INFO) (HOW TO
SITE?)******Sept 11: "Hodel Hears Plan to Add Women to Memorial," AP Dispatch, Minneapolis Star Tribune. (ill'd
3.16.02)******Sept 14: "Rembering Vietnam," New York Times. (ill'd 3.16.02)
******Oct 13: "Women Gain a Key Ally For Vietnam Statue," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. (Ill'd 3.16.02)
******Oct 22: The Commission of Fine Arts Testimony, Commissions Washington Office.
******Oct 22: 'Women and the Wall," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post. (Lexis Nexis: Newspapers)
******Oct 23: "Commission Vetoes Vietnam Women's Statue," by Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post.
(Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)*******Oct 23: Open Letter by D-M Boulay was used as a VMMP press release and other veterans
publications.*****Feb11: "Female Vietnam Veterans Have Their Share of Problems, Also," Tuscaloosa News (ill'd 3.16.02)
****Feb 28: "Healers Belong With The Heroes in Honoring War Veterans," by Ellen Diderich Zimmer, Arkansas
Gazette (ill'd 3.16.02)*****Nov: "The Public Trust," by Rob Silverman, Artpaper, (Minneapolis/St. Paul), 22 (ill'd 3.16.02)
*******Nov 8: Nancy Hobbs, "Women Veterans Seek Memorial," Salt Lake Tribune. (ill'd 3.14.02)
*****Nov 11: "Honoring Women Who Served," Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Nov 11: "Women Vietnam Vets Seek Recognition," Stars and Stripes. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "A Time to Recognize Women Are Veterans Too," New York Times by Barbara L. Shay (North
Adams, Mass.) (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)*****Nov 11: "$85,000" in Royalties for Memorial Sculptor," Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Nov 11: "Vietnam Women Veteran's Statue Now Going the Legislative Route," Washington Times. (ill'd
3.16.02)*****Nov 20: Congressional Debate over the Durenberger Bill, Congressional Record, S16701.
*****Dec 2: "Honoring the Women," Rossmor (Cal.) News (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Spring: "The Staue Near the Wall: The Vietnam veterans Memorial and the Art of Remembering," by Karal
Ann Marling and Rob Silberman, Smithsonian Studies in American Art 1: 14-15. (ill'd 3.16.02)1988
******No month or day given: Vietnam War Memorials: An illustrated Reference to Veterans Tributes
Throughout the United States by Jerry L. Starit and Sandra Strait, (Jefferson, N.C.:MacFarland and Co.) esp.
pps 125-127. (ill'd 3.16.02)******no month/day given: "The Vietnam Memorial, Washington D.C." Abitare 266 (1988): 152-3.
*****Jan 26: "Picking a Bone WIth a Bureaucrat: Official Links Canine Corps with Valor of Servicewomen," by
Elaine Viets, St. Loius Post-Dispatch. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****Feb 10: "Assembly Okays Vietnam Memorial to Women Who Served," The (Sacramento, Cal.) Progress.
(ill'd 3.16.02)*****Feb 13: "The Wall, Complete," by Benjamin Forgery, Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****Feb 23: "Vietnam Women's Memorial," Hearings before the Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee
on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests, U.S. Senate, 100th Congress.*****Feb 24: "Plan to Honor Women Vietnam Vets Criticized," Minneapolis Star Tribune (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****Feb 27: "Leave the Vietnam Memorial Alone," Washington Post. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Woman of the Wall. (Vietnam Women's Memorial Project urges placement of nurse statue at memorial) U.S.
News & World Report March 7, 1988 v104 n9 p13(1) Mag.Coll.: 43H0280. Bus.Coll.: 36X0016. (INFO)
(HOW TO SITE?)******March 17: "In Bits and Pieces, This is Their Vietnam," New York Times. (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
Washington's controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial: the wringing at the wall. Elizabeth McGowan.
Travel-Holiday April 1988 v169 n4 p11(5) Mag.Coll.: 44A1116. (ILL) (Infotrac-extended citations)****** April15: "Vietnam Women Suffer with No Healing in Sight," by Moira Kirylo, Marquette (Minn.)
Tribune. (ill'd 3.16.02)*****May 10: "Memorial Board Replaces Chairman," St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch. (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 11: "Vietnam Women Vets Replace Leader of War Memorial Effort," Minneapolis Star Tribune. (ill'd
3.16.02)*****May 12: "Senate Panel OKs Statue of Nurse at Vietnam Memorial," Minneapolis Star Tribune. (illd'
3.16.02)******May 19: "Don't Statue It Up," Savannah Morning News (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 28: "Nurse Leads Memorial Drive," by Michele Leslie, Cleveland Plain Dealer (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****May 29: Noel Holston, "'To Heal A Nation' Tells Wounds Off Battlefield" Minneapolis Star Tribune
(ill'd 3.14.02)His dream was To Heal a Nation with the Vietnam Memorial, but Jan Scruggs's healing isn't over yet. Mary
Vespa. People Weekly May 30, 1988 v29 n21 p85(2) Mag.Coll.: 45A0730. (Infotrac)The war on the wall. (controversy over memorial to Vietnam-era nurses) (Beltway Bandits) (column) David
Corn,
Jefferson Morley. Nation June 4, 1988 v246 n22 p780(1) Mag.Coll.: 45C0057 (Infotrac)May: To heal a Nation shown
June: Senator Durenberger sponsors a bill for a women's memorial that the senate passes 96-1.
*****June 19: "Why Spoil the Vietnam Memorial?" Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02)
*****June 21: The record of the House Hearing on this date before the Subcommittee on Libraries and
Memorials of the Committee on House Administration has not been printed but the testimony submitted is
available at the subcommittee office.*****June 22: "Action on the Women's Memorial," Washington Post (ill'd 3.16.02) (Lexis-Nexis: Newspapers)
*****July 28: "Vietnam's Other Vets," by Arold Evans, Newsday. (ill'd 3.15.02)
*****"AIA Opposes another Vietnam statue on the mall." American Institute of Architects Memoo:newsletter of
the American Institute of Architects. 1988 July-Aug (Ill'd 4.17.02)*****Nov 15: President Regan signs bill for support of women's statue. Senate Bill S2042 (?)
1989
Marling, Karal Ann, and John Wetenhall. "The Sexual Politics of Memory: The Vietnam Women's Memorial
Project and 'The Wall.'" Prospects 14 (1989): 341-72.Elizabeth Kastor, "Maya Lin's Unwavering Vision," Washington Post, 02/13/89: B1
1990
XWar stories: Lincoln and Vietnam Memorials: best monuments in Washington, D.C. (The Best of America: the
Land) U.S. News & World Report July 9, 1990 v109 n2 p57(1) Mag.Coll.: 55L0668. Bus.Coll.: 51Z1696.
(INFO) (HOW TO SITE?)The symmetry of Maya Ying Lin. (artist and sculptor) Jill Kirschenbaum. Ms. Magazine Sept-Oct 1990 v1 n2
p20(3) (ILL) (HOW TO SITE?)
1991
"Monument maker," by Peter Tauber, New York Times Magazine, 02/24/91 v140 p48 113 col in (ILL) (HOW
TO SITE?)****"Public Memoralizing in Postmodernity: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial as Prototype." Blair, Carole,
Marsha S. Jeppeson, and Enrico Pucci, Jr. eds. Quarterly Journal of Speech 77:3 (1991): 263-88.****"The Mall and the Commission of Fine Arts" Brown, J. Carter. Studies in the History of Art v 30 1991. (Ill'd
4.17.02)****Scully, Vincent. "The Terrible Art of Designing a War Memorial." New York Times 14 July 1991
1992
****Ellis, Carol Schwartz. "So Old Soldiers Don't Fade Away: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial." Journal of
American Culture 15 (Summer 1992) (ill'd 4.17.02)1993
Nov 11: dedication of Vietnam Women's Memorial
*****"Vietnam Women's Memorial Unveiled on Veteran's Day, " Sculpture Review 42:4 (1993) (ill'd 4.17.02)
1994
*****"Voices at the Wall: Discorses of the Self, History and National Identity at the Vietnam Veterans' War
Memorial." History and Memory 6:2 Fall/Winter 1994: 88-118 (ill'd 4.17.02)1995
*****"What's Behind the Wall: Why Progressive Memorials are Designed for Private Commeroration."
Reflections: The Journal of the School of Architecture University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign 1995 Spring 10
(Ill'd 4.17.02)****"Offerings at the Wall, Artifacts from the Vietnam-Veterans-Memorial Collection." American Heritage
October 46:6 (1995) (ill'd 4.17.02)
1996
*****"The anti-monumental work of Maya Lin." Public Art Review v 8 (Fall/Winter 96) (ill's 4.17.02)*****"Mythical Realities at a National Shrine: the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington D.C. Kritische
Berichte 24:3 1996 (ill'd 4.17.02)