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From Danny Schechter, your news dissector:

I heard no talk of any plans for a new memorial for the war we now getting ready to fight, or even any talk about all the dunderheads who two decades ago denounced Maya Lin’s moving memorial insiting that it be accompanied by a more traditional statue who noone has ever referenced since the day it was built to assuage the right-wing Veteran groups from earlier wars who never fought in Vietnam. We are living in the United States of Amnesia where history is dead and context is also conspicuous by its absense.

Remember, he who lives by the grammar/spelling flame, usually gets bit in the ass by instant karma.

As for that other statue:

The controversy over Maya Lin's abstract design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial led to the inclusion of this figurative work, erected two years after the Wall's completion. This bronze work is in a grove of trees near the west entrance to the wall. See whole view. Three servicemen, wearing the uniforms of the various military and naval branches, represent the racial diversity of the troops.

You may now boo the politically correct concept of "racial diversity."

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As debate raged over Maya Lin's design, opponents suggested throwing it out and starting over again, while members of Congress registered their disapproval. James Watt, Secretary of the Interior in the Reagan Administration, refused to issue a building permit for the memorial. Under the threat of losing their memorial, the veterans, their supporters and their opponents met to find a compromise. They decided to add a statue and a flagpole. These would symbolize in a more traditional manner the patriotism and heroism that some of the veterans and opponents thought was lacking in Lin's design.

In the end, the compromise of the Three Servicemen Statue and flagpole fulfilled a purpose of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial--to help heal the nation's wounds. Citing pain as "a necessary part of...the healing process for the wounds of Vietnam," a former design opponent, Milt Copulos, confessed that although "the wall of the memorial could have been a wall between us," it instead "became a bridge."

Didn't think so.