A volunteer at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial comforts a U.S. Marine who lost a friend during the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C., May 26, 1996. A young woman lies down on the grave of U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Noah Pier on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery May 31...
Bombarded by horrific images of the war on their televisions, Americans on the home front turned against the war as well: In October 1967, some 35,000 demonstrators staged a massiveVietnam War protestoutside thePentagon. Opponents of the war argued that civilians, not enemy combatants, were t...
Vietnam Memorial: 58,175 cold, hard facts of warJack Schnedler
Latham initiated his Flowers of War series in 2015 to honor musicians and artists from the First World War. The Gallipoli Symphony debuted in 2015, and the Diggers’ Requiem in 2018. The Memorial commissioned Latham’s Vietnam Requiem, which premiered in June 2021. Future works will honor ...
Veterans’ Day should not be confused with Memorial Day. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, “Memorial Day (the fourth Monday in May) honors American service members who died in service to their country or as a result of injuries incurred during battle, while Veterans Day...
Grant Wood’s American Gothic and Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial are celebrated instances in which the name of an artist instantly calls to mind a single work, and vice versa... A wry, sly look at the Russian classics by Michael Johnson Apr 3rd 2018 Serious readers like to see ...
Southeast Asia. Many are still haunted by the things they experienced there. Many did not return -- more than 58,000 names of U.S. service members killed in Vietnam are carved into slabs of black granite that form the Vietnam War Memorial (known simply as"The Wall") in Washington, DC...
4. Over fifty years after the fighting officially ended, 8,176 Korean War troops are still officially listed as missing in action. 5. The haunting Vietnam Veterans Memorial was first proposed by Jan Scruggs, a 29-year-old Vietnam veteran from Bowie, Md. He began a fund-raising campaign ...
Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on November 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and November 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. Unlike Memorial Day, Veterans Day pays tribute to ...
This crowd was on their way to a memorial service for Dr. King being put on in Central Park that would pull in thousands across the city. Soldiers stationed in Vietnam during the war attended a memorial service as well on April 8, 1968. The chaplain eulogized King as "America's voice ...